Sr Staff Product Engineer

The Enterprise Technology mission at Disney is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. We drive Disney's competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence!

You will be part of the Cloud & Data Transformation Engineering organization, that provides next-level cloud and data services to unleash digital magic for Disney. We use modern technologies, design patterns, culture, and organizational alignment to enable teams to seamlessly ship content, products, and magical experiences better, faster, safer, and happier.

As a Sr Staff Product Engineer, you responsibilities will include defining the product vision (lead with the why and think big!), establishing a consistent customer rhythm of business, using data to find opportunities, and building a deep roadmap and backlogs that prioritizes the highest value for users. This role requires a servant leader mindset and someone who is both technically capable and highly adept at building strong partnerships that deliver critical organizational outcomes. Additionally, there will be responsibility for developing foundational services and capabilities that enable an integrated experience across the portfolio of our Cloud & Data Organization.

The ideal candidate is technically adept in software development lifecycle (SDLC) platforms, specifically an Agile and MVP approach, multi-cloud capabilities (AWS, Azure, Google), hosting and data capabilities, as well exemplary leadership and communication abilities (both verbal and written); this role will -be hands on with our technical customers, both Developer and IT Admins.

Responsibilities:

• Understands technical customer requirements and can articulate them into technical build requirements

• Deep empathy for customer requirements - both the goods and the bads

• Willing to say no as appropriate when customer asks are not aligned with strategic direction

• Uses data to see opportunities and build hypotheses worthy of prioritization

• Correlates multiple data dimensions to identify patterns that can be transformed into build requirements

• Performs market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features for the relevant product line

• Defines strategy, vision, & prioritizes product roadmap

• Ensures business rhythm is established that corrals both customer sentiment feedback, as well as customer data that enables prioritization requests and enhancements for the product line

• Engages with customer and organizational leadership to deeply understand unarticulated needs, successes, and new opportunities; then conveys that information to the team in a manner that is traceable and useful.

• Uses data, strategic direction, and feedback loops, prioritizing high value outcomes first

• Uses an Agile framework, specifically with an MVP and iterative approach, partners and collaborates with engineering team to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered; communicates effectively to stakeholders

• Brings to bear techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency for the team while promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation

• Champions organization-wide processes and best practices related to ideation, delivery, prioritization, and customer engagement

• Productively challenges engineering design to ensure customer requirements will be fulfilled

• Uses a lifelong learning mentality, knowing the latest best practices and technologies

• Exercises good judgment when faced with risk, blockers, or tradeoffs

• Communicate expectations to partners, leaders, and customers, and optimally resets expectations as priorities or deliverables shift

• Effectively onboards customers and stakeholders to new releases and functionality

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years in software engineering, product engineering, or systems engineering teams

• 4+ years cloud technologies experience

• Proven experience setting strategic vision, large scale application deployments, managing SDLC platforms & tools, and resolving issues that impact design, product success, or address future technologies

• Ability to work with large data sets to analyze and interpret business results

• Experienced in SCRUM/Lean Agile frameworks with an MVP/iterative approach mentality

• Ability to influence, take calculated risks, make sound business decisions, and resolve concerns as needed

• Excellent interpersonal, business development, and communication skills (both written & verbal for both technical and non-technical audiences; works well with engineering, creative, and marketing leaders – including senior executives)

• Positive can-do partnership demeanor while working with cross-functional teams and business units

• Must be detail oriented, self-organized, and capable of simultaneously supervising and prioritizing multiple efforts

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree

• Cloud Certification/s

• Proven understanding of scripting & programming languages (Python, Go, etc.)

The hiring range for this position in California is $180,646 to $242,330 per year and in Washington State is $189,256 to $253,880 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.

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