Product Manager (Project Hire)

The Walt Disney Company • Celebration, FL

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. This role will report to the Manager of Product Management. This is a Project-Hire without any guarantee of permanent placement.

Requirements

• 3+ years combined business and digital experience in Product Management or similar expertise
• Supported medium to large technology projects, including collaborating on estimates, scope, and plans.
• Experience with technical, user and business issues in a digital organization.
• Identify and articulate the impact of the latest industry trends on our business.
• Work collaboratively across large matrixed organizations.
• Experience collaborating with and achieve applicable results through others and the capability to interact within all levels.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Proactive thinker with the ability to thrive in an often ambiguous, fast paced environment.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
• 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.
• Timeshare industry or related travel industry experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work within a 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.
• A understanding of current Disney Experience capabilities as it relates to converging technology seamlessly into the Guest experience.
• Out of the box thinking, ability to broker creative solutions with internal and external teams to overcome roadblocks and move projects forward.
• Executes on data driven strategies and staying updated on the latest business and market trends while also monitoring guest behavior through analytics and consumer testing to track against KPI’s.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of the product vision, strategy, and outcome-based roadmaps for the business.
• Define product strategy and present vision and strategic plans to executive leadership throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with technology and business leaders to establish strategies that leverage technology to drive business growth.
• Support teams and internal squads to deliver high-quality products on time and within scope.
• Translate product concepts into actionable deliverables including user stories, epics, and detailed requirements and manage through backlog refinement, prioritization, and user acceptance testing.
• Attend daily scrums, drive priority decisions, and resolve roadblocks to ensure smooth product rollouts.
• Negotiate through blockers and influence decisions across technology and business teams.
• Be data informed by using qualitative and quantitative research, analytics, documentation, and testing.
• Stay informed on marketing technology trends and emerging technologies to inform product strategy.
• Provide regular product and scorecard updates to business and technology leadership.
• Support ongoing documentation, reporting, and coordination of feature launches and enhancements, and Understanding how to use product management models and technology.

Benefits

• health and savings benefits
• educational opportunities
• special extras that only Disney can provide
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level