Sr. Technical Program Manager, Product Security

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

The Global Information Security (GIS) organization strives to secure the magic by employing best-in-class services to assess, prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats that present risk to The Walt Disney Company. We enable the business by integrating enterprise and business segment-specific supported services to create a robust, efficient, and adaptable cybersecurity program. Our key objectives are to:

• Secure the Magic by protecting information systems and platforms.

• Reduce Risk by proactively assessing, preventing, and detecting to prevent harm to the Company and our Guests.

• Strengthen the business through optimizing execution, application, and technology used to protect the Company.

• Innovate by investing in core capabilities to enhance operational efficiency.

The Product Security Team at The Walt Disney Company is dedicated to safeguarding the digital assets and intellectual property of one of the world's most beloved entertainment companies. Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the security and integrity of Disney's diverse range of products and services, which span across theme parks, resorts, cruise lines, sports, news, movies, and various other businesses.

We are a dynamic and collaborative team that partners with engineering teams across the enterprise. Our mission is to mitigate technical risk by identifying vulnerabilities in Disney products, providing education to engineering teams on remediation techniques, and collaborating with other security teams to ensure the protection of our guests.

Our team is responsible for conducting security assessments, managing customer interactions, and developing security solutions that align with Disney's business strategies. We leverage cutting-edge technology and innovative approaches to enhance consumer experiences, enable business growth, and advance operational excellence.

Responsibilities of Role:

• Lead intake, onboarding, and coordination for our most critical systems, focusing on our high-impact, flagship DEEPT applications.

• Oversee JIRA operations and intake consolidation to ensure a seamless customer experience, especially as teams merge.

• Develop executive leadership dashboards to drive strategic, data-driven decision-making.

• Sustain core DEEPT operational work to maintain high standards and efficiency.

• Act as the Enterprise Product Security liaison between DEEPT ISO with the role's scope expanding to other segments in the future.

• Drive Information Security programs and technical projects through the full life cycle from scoping, customer kick-off coordination, timelines, task management, communication and status reporting.

• Partner with team, stakeholders, and leaders to ensure efficient, accurate, and efficient processes.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date tracking and maintenance of pending and open work items in Jira projects.

• Perform analysis of data sets to identify areas of gaps in accuracy or misalignment of product security processes.

• Support PMO with changing priorities and field ad hoc requests for department support, architecture consultation and guidance

• Lead elicitation of team requirements that support team processes and projects, including creation of functional requirements, data mappings and user stories to enable process modification or development

Must Haves:

• 5+ years of product management experience, including portfolio management resulting in increased scope and responsibility

• Understanding of application or infrastructure SDLC and secure development practices

• Strong Agile scrum master/Agile PM experience

• Understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD)

• Process Optimization experience resulting in streamlined and efficient processes across programs and teams

• Ability to think strategically and drive ideas into action, with a positive outlook and willingness to take personal initiative

• Demonstrated ability to identify, understand and drive resolution of complex critical issues

• Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills

• Previous experience with JIRA & Confluence or similar tools

• Data extraction and manipulation using excel or similar tools

Nice To Haves:

• Analytics experience with managing large data sets via excel, smartsheet, or data tables

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $152,000 to $$204,100 per year and New York is $159,500 to $213,900 per year and in Seattle is $159,500 to $213,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.