Manager, Technical Project Management

Job Summary:

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:

• 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.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 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.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field of study and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $148,300 to $198,800 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.