Technical Program Manager, International Analytics

Company: Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution
Location: Simi Valley
Posted on: June 21, 2022

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to join our International Analytics team. This role requires acute attention to detail, a strong sense of accountability, collaboration, communication, technical understanding and experience managing cross workstream technology initiatives. In this role you will directly contribute to the success of our analytics teams by holding regular planning sessions, managing stakeholders, outlining strategic project deliverables and coordinating directly with other analytics leaders across Disney Streaming. At Disney Streaming, data is central to measuring all aspects of the business, and critical to its operations and growth. International Analytics works closely with the Regional Analytics teams across The Walt Disney Company to provide analytical insights to drive regional business strategy across the globe. The Technical Program Manager will function as the interface between analytics, product, operations, and engineering teams, participating in coordination, alignment, roadmapping and overall seamless delivery of best-in-class consumer applications. Responsibilities :

• Liaise between central D.A.T.A. Analytics teams and Regional Analytics teams (based in APAC, LATAM, EMEA).
• Connecting operational and technical teams, translating high-level requirements from business stakeholders to granular, well-defined tasks for Data Analysts to deliver on.
• Serves as an information radiator, ensuring successful regional expansions, content releases, and data model updates are well communicated and planned throughout the greater org and Regional Analytics teams.
• Aid in prioritization of required engineering and analytics work for high visibility initiatives and projects across the globe
• Build strong relationships with partnered analytics teams; running multiple concurrent projects with separate stakeholders simultaneously; cultivating relationships between technical and business teams while serving directly as the end-to-end liaison in product development
• Take initiative and take a proactive approach at finding ways to remove barriers to move a project forward, accurately forecasting risks and mitigating exposure to accomplishing projects
• Assist teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level features and backlogs
• Aids the team in prioritization and capacity management by facilitating regular backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, and estimation ceremonies with the core team and stakeholders
• Facilitate planning events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams, including story mapping, assigning of tickets, strategic planning sessions and scrum of scrums
• Performs all other responsibilities of a Program Manager at a proficient levelBasic Qualifications :
  • 2-4 years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Project Manager or Scrum Master for a technology team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
  • Background in Data Analytics, or history of working within an Analytics team strongly preferred
  • Experience collaborating in matrix-organizations with various horizontal and vertical teams
  • Experience with large-scale organizational change efforts
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
  • Working knowledge of modern program management, analysis, tracking, and reporting tools such as Jira, Confluence, G-Suite (Google: Docs, Sheets, Slides) , and MS Office
  • Experience in Scrum Master and scaled Agile or transformation roles in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate anywhere from the team level to C-level executivesRequired Education :
    • Bachelor's degree in business management, computer science, or another related field Additional Information : DISNEYTECH

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