What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Technical Project Manager position at Disney Experiences?
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:
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.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience
Salary : $148,300 - $198,800