Software Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a Technical Program Manager with a major corporation in Glendale, CA.
Monday - Thursday on-site, Fridays remote.
Duration: 24 month(s)
Pay Rate: $85 - $90/hr DOE
Description:
The Technical Program Manager will be an integral part of the Content Production and Distribution Global Program Management team. DEEP&T creates products, platforms, and innovations for The Company by driving the strategic development and use of technology, building scalable systems and products to empower our businesses and engage consumers. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, DEEP&T helps The Company optimize technology, platforms, and resources, while bringing creative ideas to life and creating industry-shaping approaches.
This is a contractor position within the DEEP&T Global Program Management Organization. The Technical Program Manager will drive and lead the execution of complex initiatives within the Title Management space. Title Management is an ecosystem composed of several interconnected apps and platforms within our title and content metadata supply chain. This includes major functions such as title registration, version management, third party registration, metadata enrichment, and configuration of experiences. In this role, the candidate will be responsible for facilitating all aspects in the delivery of new products, and enhancements to existing products from kickoffs through deployment to closure. The ideal candidate is data-oriented, organized, adaptive, and non-dogmatic when it comes to operational agility.
Successful candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on concurrent implementations across matrixed teams both inside and outside the DEEP&T organization. Demonstrates exceptional skill in organizing tasks and information, readily adapts to changing circumstances, and shows remarkable flexibility in employing diverse methods and processes to enhance team efficiency with a focus on solutions that best serve the team. They should be skilled in managing multiple large project teams of 20+ cross-functional individuals and should possess the conventional capabilities of a scrum master, project & program manager, a servant-leader, and above all else, a team contributor. They must be capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, issues, and processes to a variety of business, creative, and technical and executive audiences. They must be able to partner with other program managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate work, deliverables, and schedules.
1. Establishes the Authoritative "Intent for Every Title
Title Intent captures the business's official view of a title's strategy scope, release approach, platform intent, branding plans, and readiness.
Updates to intent options and strategy metadata are continuously managed in CPT to keep the ecosystem aligned (e.g., revised DTC Title Intent picklists and branding plan updates). This ensures all downstream teams (localization, marketing, programming, operations) work from consistent, current information.
2. Powers Enterprise Wide Content Planning & Forecasting
Through CAP, the space enables financial and strategic teams to model release strategies, understand impact to slates, and align around forecasting.
Key capabilities include:
Scenario Planning that models changes in release strategies and metadata and calculates the financial impact.
Amortization modeling and allocation used by finance to forecast title level P&L outcomes.
Bulk title import and data alignment, centralizing all planning data in one ecosystem.
This creates a single, unified environment for slate level planning across studios, networks, DTC, and finance.
3. Provides Operational Readiness & Milestone Visibility
Title Planning ensures all teams can track a title's progress from registration through final delivery by centralizing milestone and operational signals:
Integrations with VPS, TBT, and HIRO provide automated tracking of mastering, avails, metadata, and localization related milestones.
Sports Milestone Insights expands readiness visibility for content.
This reduces manual reconciliation, enables faster troubleshooting, and improves predictability of global launches.
4. Automates Key Supply Chain Workflows
The area leads automation efforts that connect planning intent with operational systems:
Localization Order Automation, allowing Title Managers to trigger DTC localization orders directly from HIRO, eliminating manual processes in DOT.
Order update APIs, payload improvements, and sequencing logic that keep title plans synchronized with downstream systems.
These workflows drive consistency, quality, and speed at global scale.
5. Maintains Enterprise Metadata Quality Across the Title Lifecycle
Title Planning & Intent maintains the accuracy of foundational title metadata that drives distribution, marketing, finance, and rights workflows.
Ongoing enhancements include:
Streamlined registration, improved TRM field visibility, and parent/child title rollups in CPT.
Schema alignment for financial and operational systems through new run window objects, allocation models, and episode cadence metadata.
This ensures the entire enterprise works from a single, consistent representation of every title.
6. Provides Cross Portfolio Coordination & Governance
The space acts as the coordination layer across multiple product and engineering squads CPT, CAP, Title Plan, HIRO, and integrations with Rightsline, Xavier, FDA, and more.
Its meetings function as a "Scrum of Scrums for the entire Planning ecosystem, ensuring aligned priorities, data integrity, and operational continuity. This governance keeps dozens of systems and workflows synchronized.
In Short:
Title Planning & Intent is the enterprise's strategic command center for title readiness, lifecycle alignment, and planning intelligence.
It:
Defines what a title is and how it will launch
Centralizes fiscal, programming, and release planning
Ensures milestone level operational readiness
Feeds the entire supply chain with clean, aligned metadata
Automates workflows that reduce manual effort and risk
Connects planning with execution through integrated systems
It enables Disney to operate a cohesive, data driven, globally scalable content supply chain from early strategy through final delivery.
Basic Qualifications:
Key Responsibilities:
Lead agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint plannings, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos.
Provide support using a servant-leadership style, facilitate discussions and decision making in meetings, and resolve team impediments at multiple levels of an organization.
Coach teams in their journey to Agile, support their self-organization and agile methodology knowledge growth.
Maintain proactive and open communications, horizontally and vertically, to drive transparency and clarity on achievements, plans, and risks.
Support and actively work to create a collaborative, friendly, close-knit team environment.
Balances confidence with humility pushes when needed, aligns when it matters.
Soft skills are exceptional; builds trust and momentum across teams.
Owns outcomes and drives clarity PM participation makes things better.
Use tools and techniques to support the team in shipping high quality software increments such as User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing and JIRA dashboards.
Assembly, maintenance, and curation of project metadata and metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program progress and quality and successfully leverage those metrics to identify program needs and course correction.
Assembly, maintenance, and curation of various team-level and project-level artifacts, including project plans, communication plans, agile working agreements, scope definitions, RAID logs, RACI matrix, and weekly reports.
Understanding, tracking, and following-through with inter-team dependencies.
Understand, communicate, and assist the team with resolving project issues, risks and delays.
Included in problem solving.
Communicate delivery times and scope to other software engineering teams that depend on a timely delivery.
Manage projects that impact the scrum team, including developing project plans and timelines for projects and project deliverables.
Holds functional managers accountable for their teams' deliverables.
Identifies and manages issues and risks and drives decision making.
Communicates team and project status and schedule updates. Coordinate leads-level project syncs and project reviews with senior and executive leadership.
Basic Qualifications:
A minimum of 4 years of experience in technical program management with a focus on software application development.
Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Lead for cross-functional agile teams.
Working knowledge of Jira/Confluence supporting agile methodologies.
Experience with Smartsheet or MS Project.
Experience with software development (SDLC) practices.
Desire to expand domain and technical knowledge and take on additional responsibilities as appropriate.
Anticipate working with teams on East or West Coast hours, with flexibility to work outside of regular office hours to accommodate important meetings in different time zones.
Preferred Qualifications:
Technical knowledge of user interface and metadata management within the software development space.
Advanced knowledge of tools including Atlassian Suite (JIRA/Confluence).
Experience with metadata management, version control, and bulk title registration workflows.
Experience in content planning, rights management, or metadata system
Required Education:
BS or Equivalent yrs experience
About Software Resources
Software Resources, founded more than 3 decades ago, is a trusted staffing partner specializing in Technology (IT, Creative, & Marketing), Finance, & Accounting placements. We work with companies nationwide that need skilled professionals and connect them with candidates like you looking for the right opportunity.
We are always looking for professionals at all experience levels and in various specialties to meet our clients' hiring needs. As a member of our team, you will have access to benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, short-term disability, life insurance with AD&D.
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