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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Technical Program Manager - **Company:** Walt Disney Studios - **Location:** Santa Monica, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $155,700.0 - $208,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, Media Technology - **Published:** July 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27850966/Lead-Technical-Program-Manager-California-Santa-Monica-1015 ## About the Role * 7+ years of relevant experience * Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams * Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills * Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership), * Typically has 5 or more years of progressively complex related experience as a Scrum Lead, with hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum developing software applications in a highly-technical domain * Typically has 5 or more years of experience managing formal application software development projects * Formal project management certifications Experience with: * Experience working in a media technology environment * Advertising technology domain knowledge, or demonstrated aptitude for learning a technology-based engineering domain Required Education * BA/BS or equivalent experience required ## Description * This is a staff position within the DE&E Product & Technology: Business Operations - Technical Program Management organization. * The Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of program deliverables within the Advertising alliance, with the potential to facilitate programs that cut across the department and other groups within the organization. * Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments. * They must be capable of attaining a strong understanding of technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. * They must be able to partner closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: * Accountable for driving execution and delivery of a set of software development deliverables from start to finish. * Define, optimize, and manage Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams. * Leverage experience with Agile and Scrum to lead teams to successful delivery. * Lead delivery teams through the identification and management of risks and the resolution of issues, and escalating to management as appropriate. * Facilitator - must be able to: + Facilitate team ceremonies + Facilitate meetings/workshops with groups of people beyond the immediate delivery team + Facilitate the team through the resolution of complex issues + Drive workshop/meeting to conclusion and/or actionable outcome + Ensure group participation * Identify scope of inputs and outputs as dependencies for technical teams, resolve gaps and create program milestones that ensure work is sequenced across teams. * Identify risks; drive resolutions and communicate prioritized mitigation plans to stakeholders. * Monitor & adjust plans to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring programs are progressing to meet business goals. * Monitor and report on team metrics around delivery * Able to quickly solve complex problems in a challenging, dynamic environment with minimal direction. * Provide frequent and transparent communication to the business and technical senior management, delivery teams and stakeholders regarding initiative health, issues, and risks. * Demonstrate solid proficiency of technical project/program domain and able to confidently discuss with project team, partner teams, and stakeholders. * Clearly articulate technical risks without the aid of engineering support * Analyze and facilitate decisions around technical challenges with some direction. * Effectively communicates complex and/or difficult information to both technical and non-technical audiences, including Executives. * Interacts with internal and external peers, initiative stakeholders, and managers to exchange complex information. * Ability to influence key decision-makers / stakeholders towards new business processes and technical solutions that best serve the Company. ## Related Videos - [ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1655-shapeshift-reinventing-agile-for-a-b2b-saas-scale-up) - [The user in the eye of the Cargo1492 storm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/96-the-user-in-the-eye-of-the-cargo1492-storm) - [Coffee with Developers - Cassidy Williams - ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/912-coffee-with-developers-cassidy-williams) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Building The World’s Worst Image Editor™](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1836-wearedevelopers-live-building-the-world-s-worst-image-editor) - [Diversity as a Growth and Happiness Factor in Agile Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/862-diversity-as-a-growth-and-happiness-factor-in-agile-development) - [Systems Thinking for Performance: How to Diagnose and Fix Slow Systems without Guessing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2103-systems-thinking-for-performance-how-to-diagnose-and-fix-slow-systems-without-guessing) ## Related Articles - [Should Tech Managers Be Developers First? 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