The Walt Disney Studios has created one of the most powerful brands by bringing memorable, life changing storytelling to the world. Our studio film franchises have redefined the genre in building a universe filled with creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
As a project manager the Digital Studio Services Technology team, you'll report to the Product Lead in support of Studio Operations at The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA. This role requires a diversly skilled individual with experience in a combination of project management, product management, post-production, operations and business analyst disciplines in order to manage communications, track and report status for support requests/needs, development of fixes, new application integrations & development as well as drive new vendor onboarding for Studio Operations systems across the team's portfolio
- Facilitate the successful, on-time, in-scope delivery of projects within budget.
- Develop and manage multiple concurrent project plans and timelines with managers, engineers, Digital Studio Services Technology leadership and sister teams as well as their customers in Studio Operations.
- Work with Product team, Operations team, contractors, vendors, engineering managers and their teams to mitigate and communicate project status and risks at regular intervals.
- Maintain up-to-date project portfolio information and documentation for sharing and discussion with stakeholders and management.
- Facilitate meetings, document meeting decisions, questions and action items for attendees and managers.
- Coordinate with Product leads to manage project budgets, roadmaps and backlogs.
- Advise application teams based on real-world operational observations and metrics using custom approaches borrowing from both waterfall and agile methodologies.
- Effectively communicate across all levels of the organization including technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to prioritize both project and support needs of stakeholders and keep all work on track.
- Ability to manage resources and dependencies across departments and groups.
- Represent company interests with outside customers and vendors in a succinct and articulate manner.
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- Prior experience managing projects with video technologies, video distribution, and post-production.
- Understanding of both software/product development and video post-production.
- Experience with prevalent project planning software.
- Smartsheet PPM tooling
- Proven ability to support completion of complex, technical projects using recognized project methodologies.
- Experience with teams requiring customized solutions. Our teams do not fit perfectly into existing predefined project management notions, so their solutions must be flexible and effective.
- 3 plus years experience of progressive project/program, product and/or production management.
- 2 to 3 years experience managing & working with teams in technical and/or post-production fields.
- Familiarity with quality assurance and sprint/scrum management techniques and approaches.
- Team player with substantial experience working with highly technical team members in a development, production or support capacity.
- Experience managing resources and dependencies across departments or groups.
- Proven ability to utilize internal and external resources for project execution.
- Good understanding of content delivery platforms.
- Experience managing several projects concurrently and across a portfolio. - Demonstrable understanding of software development lifecycle and software release process.
- Excellent and concise interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral.
- Pro-active and possess a hands-on, collaborative working style.
- Action-oriented with high standard for quality and performance
- Experience with prevalent project planning software.
- Smartsheet is a plus.
- Leverage BI Analytics reporting tools to help make informed decisions
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.