Manager, Technical Project Manager

Manager, Technical Project Management

At Disney Experiences Technology, our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premiere vacation brands across Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide.

The Disney Experiences Technology team is responsible for digital and physical Guest and Crew experience for all technology and digital-led initiatives.

As a Manager, Technical Project Management, the team is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to lead the project team driving the successful development and implementation of technical projects and programs. This includes project planning & management, risk assessment, project financials, technical project delivery, and governance standards.

What You Will Do:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of technology and digital projects and programs, including planning, execution, monitoring, governance, and successful closure across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Manage portfolio of projects for designated leader including planning, tracking, and reporting across multiple projects and programs.
• Partner with portfolio and project manager to ensure accurate financial forecasting and variance management, ensuring alignment between resource plans, timelines, and budget constraints to provide transparency into project performance.
• Develop and maintain financial models, including scenario planning and projections to support strategic decision-making and prioritization.
• Manage, hire, and develop a high-performing team of Technical Project Managers; provide coaching, performance feedback, and career development while building a strong internal and external talent pipeline.
• Partner with Senior Manager to review established program-level strategy and execution frameworks, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, product roadmaps, and technology objectives.
• Define and enforce clear objectives, milestones, and success criteria across cross-functional teams, ensuring accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Oversee risk management practices by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks, and ensuring escalation and resolution pathways are effectively executed.
• Drive operational excellence and process discipline by enforcing timely, accurate, and consistent updates within project management systems (e.g., MyPPM, Jira, Smartsheet), enabling data-driven decision-making and project transparency.
• Serve as a liaison and escalation point for project managers across partner teams from portfolio, architecture, product, design, delivery, security, and business stakeholders.
• Partner to help translate complex technical concepts from delivery teams into actionable insights, metrics, decisions to ensure alignment across diverse audiences.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project delivery methodologies, tools, and team effectiveness.

Qualifications & Skills:

• A minimum of 8 years of experience leading technical project management teams with demonstrated success delivering complex, cross-functional technology initiatives
• Technical project management experience supporting large-scale digital platforms, guest-facing products, or transactional systems.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent formal project management
• Strong people leadership capabilities including hiring, coaching, performance management, and development of high-performing teams
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional technology teams, with strong analytical problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Agile certifications such as CSM, ACP, CPO, SAFe with hands-on experience applying Agile and hybrid delivery models at scale.

Education

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $148,300 to $198,800 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.

About Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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