Disney Employment – Project Manager

Job Description:

As a Senior Technical Project Manager in the Video Playback Engineering teams, you’ll be responsible for partnering with Program and Engineering managers who are developing the video experiences for the Disney+ platform. You’ll also function as the interface between Product and other Engineering teams, participating in coordination, alignment, road mapping, and the overall seamless delivery of best-in-class consumer applications.

Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and solidify project processes by creating, managing, and updating documentation
• Cultivate relationships across engineering and technical teams while serving directly as the end-to-end liaison
• Execute on several projects concurrently, with a remote & distributed team, while balancing competing priorities
• Constantly seeking ways to improve at every iteration, making suggestions for improvement
• Taking initiative and proactively find ways to remove barriers to move a project forward.
• Identify solution paths for competing requirements while managing stakeholder preferences
• Manage the execution of deliverables, both short and long-term, via clearly defined milestones, and timelines
• Demonstrate product knowledge, and facilitate the development of requirements in consideration of known technical capabilities and limitations
• Develop and maintain a project plan in order to deliver best-in-class software through the SDLC
• Promoting team synergy among project team members, and foster transparent communication
• Keep stakeholders informed of day-to-day project statuses, updates, and risks

Job Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Project Manager leading complex media, technology, or product launches in the consumer software industry.
• In-depth knowledge and experience running a consumer application development project through the entire SDLC
• You have direct engineering experience. C++ experience is highly desirable and strongly recommended.

Qualification & Experience:

• Possess a strong understanding of application development, API transactions, and repository processes.
• Experience managing large teams on complex high-profile projects, and are viewed as the “go-to” individual
• Strong knowledge of project management processes including Agile, Kanban, Waterfall
• Experience working with remote and global teams
• Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
• Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills

Job Details:

Company: The Walt Disney Company

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: New York, NY, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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