Disney
Software Product Mgr Princ
Celebration, FL, USA · Full-time
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About the role
- Nearly every project at Walt Disney Imagineering includes a first-of-its-kind.
- Innovation is in our DNA, and Imagineers constantly push the boundaries of technology and invent new goals as well as the solutions to achieve them.
- The diversity of expertise at Imagineering makes us uniquely capable of influencing positive change in our communities and around the world.
Responsibilities
- Drive product direction and implementation for estimating and scope management products within Imagineering, including capabilities that leverage AI to improve speed, insight, and decision support.
- Define product strategy for systems and workflows that support estimating, budgeting, forecasting, scope generation, scope cataloging, scope change management, and AI-assisted analysis across project phases.
- Advocate as the voice of the Imagineer, estimator, planner, and delivery team member, placing grounded problem-solving before solutioning and exemplifying WDI's core design and delivery principles.
- Partner with stakeholders across estimating, project management, production, engineering, design, sourcing, finance, and technology to identify needs, pain points, dependencies, and opportunities for transformation, including where AI can augment workflows in practical and trusted ways.
- Guide product development for systems that define and manage project scope from high-level experience structures through detailed assemblies, systems, parts, packages, and fabricated or procured components, including AI-enabled approaches to classification, structuring, retrieval, and analysis.
- Collaborate with software engineering, product design, technical program management, finance, sourcing, legal, and data partners to deliver product capabilities that are reliable, usable, scalable, and aligned to responsible AI practices.
- The systems and workflows that support project estimating, budgeting, and scope definition are foundational to how Imagineering plans, aligns, and delivers world-class experiences.
- This Product Manager, Principal will drive and deliver software products, functions, and workflows for our internally used Imagineering product portfolio focused on estimating and scope management.
- This role will also help identify where AI can responsibly improve estimating quality, workflow speed, data usability, and decision support across these domains.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software product management experience
- Expertise with complex enterprise product ecosystems and operational workflows, particularly those supporting planning, costing, delivery, or systems of record.
- Expertise with 0-1 software development.
- You can craft clarity, starting from the blank page, while also evolving existing tools and workflows over time.
- You can communicate across mediums and across levels of the organization.
- Experience evaluating where automation, intelligence, or AI can meaningfully improve user workflows, data interpretation, or decision-making in enterprise software environments.
- You care deeply about the craft, rigor, and coordination required behind the scenes.
Nice to have
- Experience with estimating, budgeting, cost modeling, forecasting, or financial planning systems in capital project, construction, manufacturing, design, or related environments.
- Experience with product domains related to scope management, configuration management, bill of materials, asset hierarchies, package planning, or parts and component tracking.
- Recent experience with AI-enabled product capabilities, user patterns, or enterprise AI workflows, especially those related to prediction, classification, summarization, search, recommendation, or decision support.
- Experience evaluating and implementing both commercial software platforms and custom-built internal tools.
- Experience with data models, taxonomies, and structured information systems used to organize complex project scope.
- Experience with microservice ecosystems and component-based web apps.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, media management, or an engineering or science discipline required, or equivalent experience.
- Master's degree preferred.
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to translate highly complex business processes into clear product direction, requirements, and phased delivery plans.
- Passion for solving problems within creative and entertainment cultures.
- written, verbal, and presentational.
Compensation
- The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $179,500.00-$240,600.00 per year.
- Drive the annual investment and funding strategy for product functions and features within the estimating and scope management portfolio, including capabilities that improve automation, prediction, and decision-making through AI.
Benefits
- This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide.
- Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.
- 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.
Company info
- We're looking for a passionate, strategic product leader to drive products dedicated to how WDI estimates, budgets, defines, structures, and manages the scope of our projects across the full lifecycle of design and delivery.
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