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Technical Project Manager

Disney

New York, NY 02-25-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Contract
  • Mid (2-5 years) Experience
Job Description
As a Technical Project Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of cutting-edge infrastructure and operations projects. Effectively managing the WIP for a diverse team of engineers across disciplines on a daily basis to complete projects on time is key to success in this role. Technical PMs will develop project plans, detail requirements, and identify problems early for remediation. This role is key to delivering exciting video products to consumers around the world.

Responsibilities:
• Work closely with engineers and product owners to distill technical
• requirements into easily actionable user stories and plans Work with other TPMs to make sure external project dependencies are properly tracked
• Identify and communicate key performance indicators
• Identify project roadblocks and issues and develop strategies for continually moving the project forward
• Develop, maintain and effectively execute build iterations throughout the life of assigned projects, which defines activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration and associated resource requirements
• Participate in decisions on what features products should have and their prioritization
• Assist with technical feasibility, implementation approach, deployment strategies, and QA effort

Basic Qualifications:
• Required At least 3-5 years of project management experience with exposure to Infrastructure and Operations
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Effectively communicates with technical and non-technical staff
• Experience with Agile and Traditional project methodologies
• Motivation to understand complex technologies and interactions
• and distilling them into requirements and tasks
• Strong process development and refinement ability
• Passionate about motivating and keeping teams productive
• Leadership across a range of technical disciplines: Networking,
• Storage, Database

Preferred Qualifications:
• Prior experience with datacenter and cloud projects

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2xp8y-3-138-114-38-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Disney

Disney Streaming Services is responsible for developing and operating The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer video businesses globally, including the ESPN+ and Disney+.