Walt Disney Imagineering | Hiring | Senior R&D Imagineer, Senior Technical Program Manager – AI Character Studio | Glendale, CA | BigDataKB.com | 4 Oct 2022

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Job Location: Glendale, CA

The Team

Walt Disney Imagineering’s Research & Development organization is building a new Intelligent Interactive Character Studio to allow Guests and our beloved characters to share new interactive experiences and stories. The team is comprised of a cross-disciplinary group of designers, writers, artists, and software engineers. Its charter includes developing a robust and scalable entertainment platform supporting interactive character experiences with up to millions of concurrent users. The studio develops mobile, VR, AR, Mixed Reality, and custom physically situated applications built on a core platform, independently and in partnership with 3rd party developers.


The Role

This role combines a strong engineering and technology background with proven project management abilities to cultivate innovation and drive project execution. As a Technical Program Manager, you are a critical part of turning ideas and prototypes into reality, collaborating with engineers and designers to define, scope, budget, and execute project work. In the Intelligent Interactive Character Studio, you will drive the planning and execution of high-complexity software initiatives to deliver new character experiences for the Walt Disney Company.


Responsibilities/You Will

  • Partner with R&D Project Leads to define the programmatic strategy to accomplish the technical and creative vision for the product

  • Create and maintain requirements, project scope, schedule, budget, staffing plans, and project roadmaps

  • Build, lead and motivate diverse teams including creatives, various types of engineers, manufacturing, vendors, operations, logistics, and shared services

  • Source, identify, and qualify external vendors through the generation of requests for proposals, conducting make/buy analyses, vendor down-selection matrices and working with legal to negotiate contracts for vendor selection

  • Drive communication across team members, project leads, executives, and project stakeholders, creating and delivering information in different methods including verbal, written and visual

  • Plan and execute internal and external playtests

  • Analyze risk analysis and development of mitigation strategies for technical, creative, business, regulatory and competitive risks

  • Define post-delivery sustainment requirements and level of effort estimates

  • Identify and deliver on technology transfer opportunities

  • Identify and recommend internal process improvements

  • Contribute to the culture and community of the WDI R&D Studio


Basic Qualifications/You Will Have

  • Minimum five years of experience in industries that leverage both software and hardware deliveries such as robotics/mechatronics, artificial intelligence, game engine/systems, aerospace or embedded systems technologies

  • Program/project management experience on software development projects with a proven ability to manage both large and small projects and selecting the appropriate workflow management methodology to accomplish the project goals (e.g. agile, kanban, integrated project management, etc.)

  • Flexibility and adaptability as the team learns through prototyping and playtesting, adjusting project plans as needed

  • Ability to translate high level scope/vision into actionable plans

  • Ability to clearly communicate the project vision, expectations, and outcomes to engineers, creatives and executives across all levels within the organization

  • Experience in building and motivating highly effective teams

  • Ability to think strategically and creatively to solve challenges

  • A passion for technology and delivering new tools, platforms and experiences

  • Demonstrated desire to constantly improve and adapt to new technologies


Preferred Qualifications

  • Startup / entrepreneurial experience

  • Experience working with early development teams and prototype products

  • Computer science, computer engineering or systems engineering experience

  • PMP certification


Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or computer science, systems engineering or related field

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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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