Manager, Technical Project Management at Disney in Orlando, FL

Manager, Technical Project Management Location: Orlando, FL, USA Job Posting Title: Manager, Technical Project Management Req ID: 10149536 Job Description: 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. Job Posting Segment: DX Technology Job Posting Primary Business: Commerce Primary Job Posting Category: Project Management Tech Employment Type: Full time Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Orlando, FL, USA Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: Date Posted: 2026-05-06