Jobs at The Walt Disney Company

Leads end-to-end experimentation and behavioral analysis for streaming product user experiences. Defines metrics, designs and analyzes A/B tests, conducts power analysis, studies user engagement, builds dashboards, and delivers recommendations to product managers and executive stakeholders. Uses advanced SQL and Python to analyze behavioral data at scale, with Looker and Tableau for visualization and monitoring.

Manages ILM’s R&D and Core Pipeline engineering teams, overseeing hiring, performance evaluations, professional development, staffing, budget, and operational health. Partners with global technology leaders and project management to support engineering projects, establish standards, improve collaboration, and address studio technology needs. Requires strong computer graphics and visual effects knowledge, technical fluency in architecture and code reviews, and extensive software engineering and release-process experience.

Leads strategic technology sourcing and category management across software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecommunications, and technology services. Responsibilities include developing category strategies, managing competitive sourcing events, negotiating complex agreements, analyzing supplier proposals and spend, managing supplier performance, advising stakeholders, mitigating risk, and supporting enterprise technology transformation. The role also mentors sourcing professionals and collaborates with Legal, Finance, Security, and Technology teams.

Build and maintain complex, reusable, testable user interfaces using JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. Develop optimized, scalable applications; fix bugs; investigate production issues; collaborate with backend, product, project management, and engineering teams; conduct code reviews; promote accessibility and quality; evaluate technologies; and deliver projects on schedule using Agile and Lean practices.

Designs and implements Disney’s hyperscale platform services layer supporting Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu. Owns architecture and production software for API gateways, authentication, observability, resiliency, experimentation, and AI-ready infrastructure. Establishes platform standards, golden paths, schemas, SLOs, and reliability practices; leads technical investigations, build-versus-buy decisions, cross-organization roadmaps, and executive-level technical influence. Mentors senior engineers and drives broad adoption of shared platform services across hundreds of engineering teams.

As a Principal of Streaming Strategy & Operations, you will drive OKR-setting, manage performance metrics, and support operational excellence in the Streaming Product & Technology group.

The Director of Strategy & Operations will build a team to drive goals for the Product and Technology organization, focusing on performance measurement, operational excellence, and cultural transformation.

As a Principal, you will drive OKR processes, manage performance metrics, and enhance operational excellence within the AdTech organization, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

Own forecasting, annual operating plans, long-range planning, budgeting, reconciliations, journal entries, variance analysis, reporting, and financial modeling. Partner with department leaders and Disney counterparts, support accounting close, procurement, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, project tracking, and process improvements. The role requires strong ERP, Excel, business planning, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Lead strategy and execution for experimentation to improve registration and login success across Disney's global products. Define vision and priorities, partner with engineering, design, data science and regional stakeholders, run and scale experiments, analyze login/registration KPIs, ensure data quality, and influence product roadmap to drive customer access and acquisition.

Build and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and real-time feature infrastructure to support production ML. Develop ML-adjacent services, ensure reliability/observability, participate in on-call and incident response, and collaborate with ML, data, and platform teams to meet latency, availability, and data quality requirements.

The Sr Product Software Engineer will design, implement, and optimize ad decisioning software within a microservice environment, collaborating with data science and utilizing AI/ML technologies.

Produce and present daily weather forecasts on-air, for digital and social platforms, and for the stations 24/7 livestream. Use weather software to create forecasts, maintain strong on-camera presentation, and cover shifts as a freelance/daily-hire anchor for Bay Area newscasts.

Shoot and deliver video for live and recorded newscasts: operate cameras and broadcast/streaming equipment, perform field lighting and editing, work under deadline with reporters and producers, and maintain assigned equipment. Must be flexible for varied shifts and provide reliable, independent story coverage.

Produce and present daily weather forecasts for newscasts, digital, social platforms and a 24/7 live stream. Use weather software to create forecasts, appear on-camera, and fill freelance shifts (weekdays/weekends) as needed.

Produce dynamic local newscasts: develop stories with reporters, write stories and teases, format rundowns, perform non-linear video editing, book live guests, monitor social media for newsgathering, and participate in editorial meetings under tight deadlines and breaking news.

Direct live newscasts and local productions for ABC7 KGO-TV, collaborating with producers, anchors, reporters, production and engineering staff. Operate and troubleshoot broadcast systems (Ross Overdrive, Vinten, Xpression, Dalet). Work flexible schedules across mornings, evenings, and weekends. Submit resume for future freelance DGA-covered opportunities.

Lead engineering of an AI-driven analytics platform powering dashboards and agentic queries. Own full-stack delivery (React front end, Node.js/Python/Java services, APIs, data integrations), drive architecture and performance, implement configuration-driven dashboards, ensure quality and observability, and mentor engineers while partnering with product, design, and data teams to turn ambiguous problems into production systems.

Lead R&D for next-generation image and video coding using ML/AI. Design and implement video algorithms, codecs, and multimedia workflows, represent Disney in standards bodies, drive architectural innovation, and produce IP while collaborating globally across media processing, encoding, and streaming domains.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant identity and device data pipelines and backend systems. Modernize data models, improve code quality and test coverage, support production operations and on-call, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, and participate in code reviews and agile ceremonies.