AI tools will augment how Walt Disney Imagineering creates, designs, and delivers attractions and experiences around the world. This Principal Product Manager will drive and deliver AI products, functions, and workflows for our internally used Imagineering product portfolio, bringing AI to life within WDI.
Requirements
- Expertise with 0-1 software development. You can craft clarity, starting from the blank page.
- Recent experience with current AI software technologies, user patterns, and architecture.
- Experience with microservice ecosystems and component-based web apps.
Responsibilities
- Drive product direction and implementation for first-of-their-kind AI products within Walt Disney Imagineering.
- Draft product requirements, user research, user stories, mockups, visualizations, product memos, presentations, roadmaps, and other pertinent strategy materials.
- Present to and collaborate with senior leadership on vision, strategy, and direction for AI within Imagineering.
- Partner with peer leaders across software engineering, product design, technical program management, project technology integration, finance, and legal.
- Drive the annual investment and funding strategy for product functions and features within the AI portfolio.
- Shepherding AI software technologies (both buy and build) across various states of maturity, working alongside product peers, technical program managers, software engineers, research scientists, stakeholders, and leadership.
- Communicate a clear vision and create equally strong partnerships to make these technologies relevant and successful within our creative-first business.
Other
- 10+ years of strong software product management acumen and leadership experience
- Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, and presentational. You can communicate across mediums.
- Passion for solving problems within creative/entertainment cultures. You love the output of what we do: design and deliver immersive, world-class experiences.
- Desire to work on internal technologies used by Imagineers (not consumer-facing). You care deeply about the craft of Imagineering.
- Advocate as the voice of the Imagineer, placing grounded problem-solving before solutioning, exemplifying WDI’s core design and delivery principles.
- Liaise, network, and partner with other product managers across the Walt Disney Company to identify opportunities for integration, lessons learned, and shared engagements.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, media management, or an engineering or science discipline required, or equivalent experience.
