Technical Program Manager, Core Growth Analytics
We are searching for an experienced Technical Program Manager to join our Subscriber Analytics org, acting as servant leader for the Core Growth Analytics team. This role requires acute attention to detail, a strong sense of accountability, collaboration, technical understanding and experience managing cross workstream technology initiatives. In this role you will directly contribute to the success of our products by holding regular planning sessions, managing stakeholders, outlining strategic project deliverables and coordinating directly with product, engineering, and 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. Subscriber Analytics works closely with Business Operations, Data Engineering, Data Solutions and Growth Product teams to drive tools and optimizations across the business. The Technical Program Manager will function as the interface between data, product, operations, and engineering teams, participating in coordination, alignment, road mapping and overall seamless delivery of best-in-class consumer applications.
Responsibilities :
- Liaise between operational and technical teams, translating high-level requirements from business and product stakeholders to granular, well-defined tasks for Data Analysts to deliver on.
- Performs all other responsibilities of a Project Manager at a proficient level, plus:
- Takes 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
- Accountable for driving execution and delivery of technical programs from start to finish
- Develops a program plan comprised of parallel projects and multiple project managers that collectively produce work that has significant business impact
- Facilitate planning events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams, including story mapping, assigning of tickets, strategic planning sessions and scrum of scrums
- Map milestones with Product, Engineering, and Business Operations teams to enable product launches
- Set up the release process and access control management in order to comply with governance regulations.
- Develop strong partnerships with engineering, product management and analytics leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives
- Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success
Basic Qualifications :
- 5 years of experience in program management, preferably with a focus on data analytics, business intelligence, relational databases or big-data technology
- Experience with large-scale organizational change efforts
- Experience building broad, large-scale communications plans
- Sense of humor and self-awareness (good understanding of your knowledge/limits)
- Love for Data and taking chaos and turning it into something actionable
- High sense of ownership and a focus on building fast with awareness of limitations
- Experience in Agile software development with expertise in Scrum methodology and practices.
- Good understanding of ETL processing, Data Warehousing, familiarity with BI Visualization tools such as Looker and Tableau
- Working knowledge of modern program management, analysis, and reporting tools such as Jira/Confluence and MS Office
- Knowledge of SDLC, data analytics, data engineering, and data modeling
Required Education :
- Bachelor's degree in business management, computer science, or another related field
Additional Information :
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