Sr. Manager, Product & Engineering

This is a Full Time Job

Sr. Manager, Product & Engineering (Legal Technology)

Job Summary:

Department Description

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.

Team Description

The Senior Manager, Product & Engineering (Legal Technology) is a responsible for leading a cross-functional team to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of products to our internal business stakeholders. This role encompasses all aspects of product management, program delivery, project management, software engineering, and technical operations. The Senior Manager will ensure that we are building and maintaining products that are aligned with our businesses' strategic priorities and the technology roadmap for the enterprise. This role will play a pivotal part in driving innovation, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering a collaborative environment to achieve our organizational goals.

We're looking for a seasoned technology leader with a strong foundation in product management, agile delivery, and stakeholder engagement. This role requires exceptional soft skills, including negotiation, persuasion, and a consultative approach to problem-solving. The ideal candidate can think strategically about the future of our products while remaining pragmatic and iterative in execution.

What You'll Do
Leadership & Strategic Execution
• Oversee the engineering, delivery, and support of a diverse portfolio of products, ensuring strategic alignment with business functions for our Legal & Global Affairs groups (including Antipiracy, eDiscovery, Legal Operations, Global Ethics & Compliance Management, Office of the Corporate Secretary, and Privacy)
• Lead complex, cross-functional teams to deliver technology solutions that drive business value and measurable outcomes
• Develop and execute product, project, and program roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business planning cycles and enterprise strategies
• Provide a holistic view of business capabilities, value streams, and end-to-end delivery, ensuring solutions align with organizational structure, business strategies, and stakeholder needs
• Develop and execute product roadmaps that balance innovation with operational excellence and enterprise scalability
• Build and maintain strong relationships with diverse stakeholders at all levels-from end-users to senior executives-to ensure strategic alignment and user-centric product development.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across business, product, and engineering teams to achieve shared goals and innovation

Product & Engineering Delivery
• Drive the intake, demand management, and product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with user needs, business goals, and technical capabilities
• Own and lead the full lifecycle of large software development projects, ensuring successful execution across multiple teams and components
• Track and report on product and project performance, leveraging data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement
• Champion DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategies to improve software delivery efficiency and reliability
• Ensure technical alignment with enterprise architecture standards (including TOGAF principles) and engineering best practices
• Oversee adherence to industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements, ensuring all products and processes meet necessary governance criteria
• Serve as an escalation point for resolving complex issues, technical challenges, and critical business inquiries
• Advocate for customer-centric and user-driven development, ensuring business needs align with real-world usability and adoption
• Oversee technical operations, ensuring reliability, security, and maintainability of systems and platforms

Program Management & Agile Adoption
• Drive agile adoption and best practices, ensuring teams follow iterative development, backlog prioritization, value-driven delivery, and continuous feedback loops
• Establish clear success metrics and KPIs for product and project performance, ensuring data-driven decision-making
• Proactively identify potential risks in the product development lifecycle and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery
• Work closely with product managers, product owners, software engineers, and domain architects to ensure alignment between business requirements, technical feasibility, and agile delivery principles

Financial & Vendor Management
• Oversee project and cost center budgets, providing accurate monthly forecasts and optimizing resource allocation
• Manage relationships with third-party vendors and partners, ensuring successful delivery execution and sustained product operations

People Leadership & Talent Development
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of direct reports, providing career guidance, training, and structured development plans
• Identify and develop high-potential talent across the organization, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and performance excellence
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning, ensuring teams are engaged and motivated
• Act as a mentor and coach, helping emerging leaders develop into future roles within the organization

Key Attributes

Thinks Strategically
• ?Stays current on business trends and technological advances.
• Uses knowledge of the company's products and services to meet customer needs and financial targets.
• Identified key business opportunities and challenges.
• Examines issues from a broad perspective, considering impact beyond immediate scope.
• Makes sound business decisions that balance competing priorities.
• Able to see the ''forest'' as well as the individual ''trees'' – can articulate how specific situations relate to strategy or big picture problems

Builds Relationships
• Acts as the voice of the customer by understanding their business strategies and aligning business needs with the product strategy and roadmap.
• Interacts well with people who have different backgrounds and work styles.
• Resolves conflicts effectively.
• Service mindset with ability to facilitate ''win-win'' solutions, but not afraid to say ''no''.
• Manages the diverse needs of stakeholders.
• Engages colleagues across the organization to optimize performance.
• Manages strategic partnerships and executive-level relationships across a large enterprise and within the related industry

Communicates Effectively
• Conveys relevant information in a candid and timely manner.
• Listens and asks questions to ensure understanding.
• Tailors messages appropriately to the audience.
• Effectively persuades

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