Product Manager II - Project Hire

Desired Experience and Qualities 

• Ability to work within diverse and cross-functional teams in a meaningful way to produce quality results. 

• Demonstrated proficiency in strategy development and day-to-day operations aligning with business priorities bringing the concepts to reality. 

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and proven experience driving alignment across multiple stakeholders and mediums. 

• Understanding of the latest product management frameworks and theories and how to apply them to create impactful experiences. 

• An 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. 

• Executes on data driven strategies and staying abreast of the latest business and market trends while also monitoring guest behavior through analytics and consumer testing to track against KPIs. 

Responsibilities 

• Define and deliver against guest and business needs. 

• Serve as a business facing contact for cross-functional partners

• Collaborate with other Disney Experiences Tech & Digital teams to ensure alignment with product standards. 

• Stay abreast of the latest technology trends to find strategic opportunities to use innovation to solve business problems. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Minimum of 3 years of product management or related work experience. 

• Experience identifying, defining, and/or addressing technical, user and business issues in a fast-moving organization 

• Proven ability to collaborate with and achieve results across large matrixed organizations, plus the ability to build strong and balanced 

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills across all levels, including the ability to lead stakeholder requirements sessions 

• Experience collaborating with and achieving applicable results through others and the capability to interact and influence people over whom you do not have direct authority 

• Ability to think strategically and drive ideas into action with a willingness to take personal initiative 

• Experience handling multiple high-priority, high-visibility work streams simultaneously and ability to quickly adapt to shifting priorities 

• Ability to be flexible and willing to tweak and fine-tune documentation and processes as business needs evolve, with a focus on continuous improvement 

• Experience with Agile software development methodology and all phases of software development life cycle 

• Has led small to medium digital and technology projects, including collaborating on estimates, scope, and plans 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Confluence, Jira, Miro, Microsoft Tools (including Sharepoint) and Smartsheet 

• 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. 

Required Education 

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience. Graduate degree preferred. 

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