The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH
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.
What You’ll Do
Understand technical customer requirements and can articulate them into technical build requirements
Deep empathy for customer requirements - both the goods and the bad
Willing to say no as appropriate when customer asks are not aligned with strategic direction
Use data to see opportunities and build hypotheses worthy of prioritization
Correlate multiple data dimensions to identify patterns that can be transformed into build requirements
Perform market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features for the relevant product line
Define strategy, vision, and prioritize product roadmap
Ensure business rhythm is established that corrals both customer sentiment feedback, as well as customer data that enables prioritization requests and enhancements for the product line
Engage with customer and organizational leadership to deeply understand unarticulated needs, successes, and new opportunities; then convey that information to the team in a manner that is traceable and useful.
Use data, strategic direction, and feedback loops, prioritizing high value outcomes first
Use an Agile framework, specifically with an MVP and iterative approach, partner and collaborate with engineering team to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered; communicate effectively to stakeholders
Bring techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency for the team while promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation
Champion organization-wide processes and best practices related to ideation, delivery, prioritization, and customer engagement
Productively challenge engineering design to ensure customer requirements will be fulfilled
Use a lifelong learning mentality, knowing the latest best practices and technologies
Exercise good judgment when faced with risk, blockers, or tradeoffs
Communicate expectations to partners, leaders, and customers, and optimally reset expectations as priorities or deliverables shift
Effectively onboard customers and stakeholders to new releases and functionality
Plan and prioritize work with our Software Engineering team focused on multi-cloud provisioning, governance, and data transparency
Work across a team of developers who will design, build, and maintain APIs and services that underpin our products
Required Qualifications & Skills
A minimum of 7 years of experience in technical product management.
Minimum of 2 years of product management experience in building and launching AI products.
Good understanding of the Generative AI, Agentic development process and ML model lifecycle.
Able to define priorities based on the OKRs defined by leadership
Ability to define product success KPIs measuring outcomes and drive business success.
A minimum of 5 years cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure) preferred
Proven experience setting strategic vision, large scale application/data deployments, managing software or data development lifecycles, and resolving issues that impact design, product success, or address future technologies
Ability to work with large data sets for analysis and interpretation of business results
Experienced in SCRUM/Lean Agile frameworks with an MVP/iterative approach
Ability to influence, take calculated risks, make sound business decisions, and resolve concerns as needed
Excellent interpersonal, business development, and communication skills (both written & verbal for both technical and non-technical audiences)
Positive can-do partnership demeanor while working with cross-functional teams and business units
Must be detail oriented, self-organized, and capable of simultaneously prioritizing multiple efforts
Proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Senior and Executive Management
Ability to resolve conflict
Prioritizes work effectively, making tradeoffs as necessary
Ability to synthesize robust and cost-effective technical solutions against customer requirements providing buy versus build decision making
Must be detail oriented and self-organized/motivated
Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast paced environment
Models desired company cultural attributes and inclusive behaviors
Preferred Qualifications
Experience using Azure DevOps for work item management
Certification in one or more cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)
Products built with agentic AI framework
Required Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
MBA or equivalent to post-graduation program related to product management domain.
The hiring range for this position in Seattle, Washington is $145,400 to $195,000 per year and in Burbank, CA $138,900 to $186,200 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.
Disability Accommodation for Employment Applications The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
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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.
What You’ll Do
Understand technical customer requirements and can articulate them into technical build requirements
Deep empathy for customer requirements - both the goods and the bad
Willing to say no as appropriate when customer asks are not aligned with strategic direction
Use data to see opportunities and build hypotheses worthy of prioritization
Correlate multiple data dimensions to identify patterns that can be transformed into build requirements
Perform market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features for the relevant product line
Define strategy, vision, and prioritize product roadmap
Ensure business rhythm is established that corrals both customer sentiment feedback, as well as customer data that enables prioritization requests and enhancements for the product line
Engage with customer and organizational leadership to deeply understand unarticulated needs, successes, and new opportunities; then convey that information to the team in a manner that is traceable and useful.
Use data, strategic direction, and feedback loops, prioritizing high value outcomes first
Use an Agile framework, specifically with an MVP and iterative approach, partner and collaborate with engineering team to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered; communicate effectively to stakeholders
Bring techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency for the team while promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation
Champion organization-wide processes and best practices related to ideation, delivery, prioritization, and customer engagement
Productively challenge engineering design to ensure customer requirements will be fulfilled
Use a lifelong learning mentality, knowing the latest best practices and technologies
Exercise good judgment when faced with risk, blockers, or tradeoffs
Communicate expectations to partners, leaders, and customers, and optimally reset expectations as priorities or deliverables shift
Effectively onboard customers and stakeholders to new releases and functionality
Plan and prioritize work with our Software Engineering team focused on multi-cloud provisioning, governance, and data transparency
Work across a team of developers who will design, build, and maintain APIs and services that underpin our products
Required Qualifications & Skills
A minimum of 7 years of experience in technical product management.
Minimum of 2 years of product management experience in building and launching AI products.
Good understanding of the Generative AI, Agentic development process and ML model lifecycle.
Able to define priorities based on the OKRs defined by leadership
Ability to define product success KPIs measuring outcomes and drive business success.
A minimum of 5 years cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure) preferred
Proven experience setting strategic vision, large scale application/data deployments, managing software or data development lifecycles, and resolving issues that impact design, product success, or address future technologies
Ability to work with large data sets for analysis and interpretation of business results
Experienced in SCRUM/Lean Agile frameworks with an MVP/iterative approach
Ability to influence, take calculated risks, make sound business decisions, and resolve concerns as needed
Excellent interpersonal, business development, and communication skills (both written & verbal for both technical and non-technical audiences)
Positive can-do partnership demeanor while working with cross-functional teams and business units
Must be detail oriented, self-organized, and capable of simultaneously prioritizing multiple efforts
Proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Senior and Executive Management
Ability to resolve conflict
Prioritizes work effectively, making tradeoffs as necessary
Ability to synthesize robust and cost-effective technical solutions against customer requirements providing buy versus build decision making
Must be detail oriented and self-organized/motivated
Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast paced environment
Models desired company cultural attributes and inclusive behaviors
Preferred Qualifications
Experience using Azure DevOps for work item management
Certification in one or more cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)
Products built with agentic AI framework
Required Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
MBA or equivalent to post-graduation program related to product management domain.
The hiring range for this position in Seattle, Washington is $145,400 to $195,000 per year and in Burbank, CA $138,900 to $186,200 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.
Disability Accommodation for Employment Applications The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
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