Principal Software Product Manager, AI
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10134709 Emplacement Glendale, Californie, États-Unis Entreprise Walt Disney Imagineering Date de publication 07/11/2025Résumé du poste:
About the Role & Team:
Walt Disney Imagineering is the creative force that imagines, designs, and brings to life all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions, and cruise ships worldwide. Working across a spectrum of disciplines that range from creative and conceptual to scientific and technical, Imagineers blend an innovative mixture of storytelling, art, science, and technology to create immersive experiences, memorable destinations, and innovative entertainment for families around the globe.
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. As Imagineers, one of our greatest rewards is knowing that the experiences and environments we create inspire others. The diversity of expertise at Imagineering makes us uniquely capable of influencing positive change in our communities and around the world. And knowing that we have helped make a difference is incredibly fulfilling and inspiring for all of us.
AI tools will augment how Imagineering creates, designs, and delivers attractions and experiences around the world. We’re looking for a creative product leader driven to bridge our unique design practices with modern AI technologies. 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. This individual will be responsible for 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. In this role, you will communicate a clear vision and create equally strong partnerships to make these technologies relevant and successful within our creative-first business.
You will report to the Product Executive – WDI Apps.
This is a Full-Time role.
What You Will Do:
Drive product direction and implementation for first-of-their-kind AI products within Walt Disney Imagineering.
Advocate as the voice of the Imagineer, placing grounded problem-solving before solutioning, exemplifying WDI’s core design and delivery principles.
Draft product requirements, user research, user stories, mockups, visualizations, product memos, presentations, roadmaps, and other pertinent strategy materials.
Liaise, network, and partner with other product managers across the Walt Disney Company to identify opportunities for integration, lessons learned, and shared engagements.
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.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
10+ years of strong software product management acumen and leadership experience
Expertise with 0-1 software development. You can craft clarity, starting from the blank page.
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.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Recent experience with current AI software technologies, user patterns, and architecture.
Experience with microservice ecosystems and component-based web apps.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, media management, or an engineering or science discipline required, or equivalent experience.
Master’s degree preferred.
Additional Information:
Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. 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.
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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $188,400 to $252,600 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.
Sur Walt Disney Imagineering:
Fondée en 1952 sous le nom de WED Entreprises pour concevoir et construire le premier parc à thème au monde — Disneyland — Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) est le lieu où l’imagination et la créativité s’associent à une technologie de pointe pour créer des expériences inoubliables. WDI est la force créative qui imagine, conçoit et construit tous les parcs à thème, complexes hôteliers, attractions et navires de croisière Disney dans le monde entier. La force unique d’Imagineering provient de son équipe mondiale diverse de professionnels créatifs et techniques, qui s’appuient sur l’héritage de la narration de Disney pour créer de nouvelles formes de divertissement. Les Imagineers qui pratiquent ce mélange unique d’œuvres d’art et de science travaillent dans plus de 100 disciplines pour guider une idée du début à la fin, de la phase de conception créative sans contraintes jusqu’au jour de l’ouverture.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Walt Disney Imagineering.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.