Product Manager II - Project Hire

About the role

This is a 18 month project hire position with no guarantee of permanent placement. Located in Celebration, FL, the role is part of the Strategic Growth Opportunities team at Disney Experiences Technology.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with all impacted cross-functional teams including technology, legal, marketing, operations, finance, creative and other product organizations to establish strategies using technology to drive the business.
• Work across various business, technology, and external vendor teams to help define product strategy, develop and maintain roadmaps, define features and functionality, and prioritize.
• Document features by translating business requirements into appropriate Product artifacts (including, but not limited to, project briefs, strategy decks, user stories, acceptance criteria, go-to-market plans).
• Serve as the representative for product management in day-to-day activities, including acting as the day-to-day product POC for multi-phase capital and/or expense projects.
• Serve as part of squad on projects, assisting with their successful completion.
• Support defect triage activities by working with technical, creative, and production teams to identify root cause through resolution, providing support, and escalation for blockers/impediments.
• Negotiate through blockers.
• Manage and prioritize Jira product backlog.
• Provide product and scorecard updates to business and technology leadership.
• Validate all work in QA environment and then again in production environment to ensure completion.
• Support delivery and ongoing maintenance, which may include product build, content configuration and on-call/incident management collaboration to ensure successful uptime of the digital experience as needed.
• Drive procedure documentation, testing, and general coordination of feature launches/enhancements and supporting the team with industry research, reporting/analytics, and project logistics.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3+ years of product management or related work experience.
• Proven ability to collaborate with and achieve results across large matrixed organizations, plus the ability to build strong and balanced relationships.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and proven experience driving alignment across multiple stakeholders and mediums.
• An understanding of the latest product management frameworks and theories and how to apply them to create impactful experiences.
• A basic understanding of current Disney Experience capabilities as it relates to converging technology seamlessly into the Guest experience.
• Out-of-the box thinking, with the ability to broker creative solutions with internal and external teams (including vendors) to overcome roadblocks and move projects forward.
• Experience enhancing product workflows using agentic AI and tools such as Cursor, Claude, and Copilot.
• Experience working with Disney digital platforms, including Adventures by Disney and National Geographic Expeditions website, Seaware, and/or Quickbase.
• Strong understanding of consumer product experience design, with the ability to build solutions that support target user groups.
• Experience evaluating emerging technology solutions and companies for fit and viability against use cases.
• Experience with Confluence, Jira, Miro, Microsoft Tools (including Sharepoint) and Smartsheet.
• Experience with Content Management systems.
• Highly professional, organized, inquisitive, and extremely detail-oriented.
• Experience communicating across the broader organizations through various mediums (i.e. presentations, email, formal/informal meetings).
• Entrepreneurial mindset, proactive thinker with the ability to thrive in an often ambiguous, fast paced environment.
• Working knowledge of markets, products, and competitive landscape (including ability to predict and explain current/future trends), and the ability to translate (both verbally and in writing) technologies into business value.
• Strong analytical and financial skills.
• Experience evaluating emerging technology solutions, including AI, and companies for fit and viability against use cases.

Pay

The base pay range for this position in Celebration, FL is $111,900 to $150,000 per year. The actual offer will take into account internal equity and 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.