Disney
Media · Media conglomerate
- HQ
- Burbank, US
- Founded
- 1923
- Size
- 220,000+
- Website
- disney.com
Currently tracking 36 active AI roles, down 10% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $112k–$409k (avg $197k).
Disney currently has 51 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 49%, are focused on agents, with data roles comprising 20% of the total. Engineering is the most frequent function for these positions. The company is actively hiring for roles that frequently mention technologies such as model serving, agent orchestration, and fine-tuning. Over the last 30 days, Disney has added 40 new AI roles, representing an 82% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Media · Media conglomerate
Disney currently has 45 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Sr Software Engineer (3), Disney Research Studio Intern (2), Lead Machine Learning Engineer (2), Principal Software Engineer (2), Director, Decision Science AI/ML Engineering & Ops. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Disney's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (49%), data (20%), application (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Disney is hiring AI talent in: United States (41 roles), Switzerland (2 roles), China (1 role), Argentina (1 role).
Job postings at Disney most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, llm observability, rag, evals.
In the past 30 days, Disney has posted 38 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Sr Sourcing Specialist- Marketing and Graphic Communications This role is for a Sr Sourcing Specialist focused on Marketing and Graphic Communications within Disney Experiences. The specialist will develop and execute sourcing strategies, manage supplier relationships, conduct market intelligence, lead negotiations, and mitigate risks to support marketing and creative initiatives. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills, with an emphasis on influencing outcomes and acting as a trusted advisor. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analyst, Tactical Opportunities - Product This role supports the DTC Business Team by providing analytical and business modeling support to drive and optimize global growth strategy, with a focus on product improvements. It involves ideating and evaluating subscriber acquisition, retention, and engagement initiatives, sizing growth and monetization opportunities, and forecasting the impact of product improvements on financial results. The role also involves preparing presentations for senior executives and managing complex, ambiguous projects. | — |
| 0 |
| Analyst, Content Planning & Analysis The Analyst, Content Planning & Analysis role at Disney Entertainment focuses on evaluating the financial investment and performance of content on streaming platforms like Disney+, Hulu, and Hotstar. This involves analyzing title-level and portfolio performance, building models for deal valuations and greenlight decisions, forecasting content performance, and creating executive-level reports. The role requires strong analytical skills, financial modeling, data visualization, and communication abilities, working cross-functionally with finance, strategy, data analytics, and marketing teams. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Data Analytics - Engagement Manager of Data Analytics focused on understanding and acting on engagement trends and audience behavior for Disney's Direct to Consumer business. The role involves decomposing platform engagement, investigating behavioral changes, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive content strategy and portfolio optimization. Requires strong analytical skills, SQL expertise, team leadership, and experience with large datasets and visualization tools. | — | 0 |
| Sr Principal, Executive Operations - Ads & Data Platforms This role is for a Sr. Principal of Executive Operations within Disney's Ad & Data Platforms organization. The position focuses on operational partnership and advisory support to the EVP, driving clarity, alignment, and execution across a large-scale advertising technology organization. Responsibilities include establishing operating rigor, preparing executive-level materials, liaising with stakeholders, driving capital allocation, supporting financial planning, organizing staffing initiatives, and leading organizational communications. The role requires extensive experience supporting C-suite executives, strong financial acumen, and the ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II (Salesforce) role focused on supporting and maintaining code for Salesforce systems, delivering new features, and resolving bugs. Responsibilities include bug triage, enhancement implementation, system monitoring, troubleshooting integrations, and adhering to Salesforce best practices. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - ServiceNow ITAM Staff Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise-grade solutions on the ServiceNow platform, with a strong emphasis on CMDB, Asset Management, ITOM, SPM, and advanced reporting. The role requires deep hands-on platform expertise, architectural thinking, and the ability to influence technical strategy. | — | 0 |
| Japan Member Services Vacation Advisor This role is for a Japan Member Services Vacation Advisor at Disney, requiring fluent Japanese and English to assist members with planning trips to Disney destinations. Responsibilities include providing information, customizing itineraries, documenting interactions, resolving concerns, and staying updated on Disney offerings. The role requires remote work from Oahu, with specific working hours, and involves critical thinking and independent decision-making. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor, REMI Operations Supervises a team of technical operators for live events using a Remote Integration (REMI) production model, focusing on planning, support, and execution of operational requirements. The role involves managing teams across business units, understanding complex technical workflows, developing efficient processes, coordinating troubleshooting, and building relationships with stakeholders. Responsibilities include daily operational oversight, technical planning, coaching team members, evaluating performance, managing schedules, and ensuring adherence to policies. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on supporting and maintaining code for content platforms, delivering new features, and resolving bugs. Requires strong backend development skills, experience with APIs, databases, distributed systems, and cloud technologies (AWS). The role involves system monitoring, troubleshooting, and contributing to the development lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| VTC Analyst - Premier Services This role provides technical support for video conferencing, collaboration platforms, and meeting room technologies for VIP users within Disney's Premier Services Team. Responsibilities include rapid response to issues, configuration and deployment of devices, troubleshooting, and on-site support for meetings and events. The role requires strong knowledge of various AV and unified communication systems, as well as general IT support skills. | — | 0 |
| Sr Product Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, focusing on building and enhancing platform capabilities for the content supply chain. Responsibilities include designing and developing backend solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing production support and mentorship. Requires 5+ years of experience with backend development (Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS), cloud technologies (AWS), data stores, and event streaming. | — | 0 |
| Director - Strategy & Operations, Product & Technology Director of Strategy & Operations for Product & Technology at Disney, responsible for shaping long-term vision, developing product strategies, and executing critical priorities. This role involves building and leading a team to set OKRs, manage performance, and drive operational momentum using data-driven rigor. | — | 0 |
| Principal - Streaming Strategy & Operations, Product & Technology This role is responsible for shaping the long-term vision, developing product strategies, and executing critical priorities for Disney's Streaming Product & Technology group, overseeing Disney+ and Hulu. The Principal will act as the analytical backbone, setting OKR targets, managing performance, and driving operational momentum through data-driven rigor and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Principal - Advertising Platforms Strategy & Operations, Product & Technology This role is for a Principal in Advertising Platforms Strategy & Operations within Disney Entertainment and ESPN's Product and Technology division. The primary focus is on shaping long-term vision, developing product strategies, and executing critical priorities for the AdTech organization. Responsibilities include driving the OKR-setting process, acting as the analytical backbone for key metrics, optimizing performance through data insights, and managing leadership review forums. The role requires deep domain expertise in the advertising ecosystem and strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Lead Technical Program Manager Lead Technical Program Manager for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, focusing on the Advertising alliance. Responsibilities include planning and executing software development deliverables, managing Agile processes, identifying and resolving risks, and facilitating communication across business and technical teams. Requires strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills. | — | 0 |
| Sr Product Manager II, Data Product Management This role is for a Senior Product Manager II on the Data Product team, focusing on driving measurement strategy and analytics instrumentation across ESPN's digital products. The responsibilities include owning data collection outcomes, defining measurement strategies, creating precise instrumentation specifications, and ensuring data quality and usability across web, mobile, and connected TV platforms. The role requires strong technical fluency in data collection, SQL, cloud data platforms, and enterprise analytics platforms, with a focus on bridging the gap between measurement intent and technical implementation. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to operate at the intersection of strategy and execution, shaping end-to-end solutions across the Media Engineering ecosystem. This role is not confined to a single domain. You will architect systems that span ingest, processing, orchestration, distribution, and playback across platforms such as Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. This is a hands-on architecture role for a technical leader who can define vision, influence at scale, and dive deep into code and design when needed. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II Site Reliability Engineer II at Disney, focusing on improving the performance, resiliency, and operational excellence of backend services. Responsibilities include building automation, enhancing observability, collaborating with engineering teams on SRE principles, and participating in incident response for critical systems supporting Disney's media products. | — | 0 |
| Lead Network Engineer Lead Network Engineer responsible for the design, integration, and delivery of onboard infrastructure environments for new Disney Cruise Line vessels. This role involves full stack architectural oversight of compute, storage, virtualization, and network systems, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with enterprise standards. Responsibilities include leading build-phase execution, problem resolution, defining technical standards, and ensuring cybersecurity-by-design principles are embedded, particularly concerning IACS E26/E27 requirements. The role also involves developing automated deployment frameworks and collaborating with vendors and cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technology Communications Specialist This role is for a Senior Technology Communications Specialist within Disney's Enterprise Technology & Data (ET&D) organization. The primary focus is on communicating internal technology changes, services, and tools to employees, acting as a subject matter expert for ET&D communications. Responsibilities include developing communication plans, simplifying complex technical information, managing editorial calendars, creating digital content using HTML and CMS, and defining/reporting on KPIs. While the role mentions AI platforms and familiarity with AI productivity tools, its core function is communications and employee enablement, not direct AI/ML development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager, Commerce Senior Product Manager for Disney's global commerce messaging experiences across streaming products like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. Focuses on defining and supporting customer-facing commerce messaging strategy throughout the subscription lifecycle (acquisition, onboarding, renewals, etc.), leveraging data and experimentation to drive engagement and conversion. Requires partnership with engineering, marketing, and legal teams to ensure accurate, compliant, and globally consistent communications. Role involves developing product roadmaps, delivering scalable messaging capabilities, prioritizing initiatives, and providing domain leadership for commerce messaging systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II - GCI Experiences Software Engineer II role focused on developing front-end experiences for Disney+ and Hulu's commerce, account, and subscription management features. Requires strong JavaScript application development skills and collaboration with UX and engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| General Manager General Manager for Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, responsible for strategic and operational leadership across multiple lines of business including Front Office, F&B, Spa, Housekeeping, and IT. The role focuses on driving guest service, Cast Member engagement, financial performance, and business transformation to deliver world-class guest experiences. | — | 0 |
| Director, Social Media & Digital Video Director of Social Media & Digital Video for ABC News Digital, responsible for building and executing social and video campaigns, developing strategy, fostering audience engagement, and optimizing content to elevate ABC News’ digital presence. This leadership role involves managing a team, working with executive stakeholders, and driving audience growth, engagement, and revenue through data-informed, audience-first strategies across platforms like YouTube and TikTok. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Product Management Manager, Product Management for Disney Experiences, focusing on Festivals & Events for Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The role involves leading a team to develop and grow digital product roadmaps, integrating across products and capabilities, and driving commercial growth. Requires strong analytical skills, people leadership, and experience in product lifecycle management. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Animation Manager for Disney's ESPN Creative Studio Animation/Animation FX team, focusing on creative and production priorities, staff development, and strategic planning. Oversees animation staff, technology, schedules, and team performance, requiring a comprehensive understanding of animation software, hardware, and workflows. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Java Senior Software Engineer role focused on modernizing Disney's commerce platform by developing a new API layer to expose commerce system capabilities to client teams and service partners. The role involves abstracting core commerce domains, centralizing platform capabilities, and decoupling systems for faster feature delivery, contributing to the end-to-end software development lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Content Systems Engineer This role focuses on designing, implementing, and supporting cloud-native media systems for broadcast and content workflows across various Disney Entertainment teams. It involves architecting scalable and resilient systems, managing third-party providers, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. The position requires strong technical expertise in cloud platforms, media workflow tools, and scripting languages. | — | 0 |
| Exec Dir, Infrastructure Engineering Executive Director of Infrastructure Engineering leading a global, cross-functional organization responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting integrated systems for high-quality media content delivery. Focuses on performance, scalability, security, and resilience of enterprise-level platforms, driving innovation and operational excellence. Responsibilities include leading solution engineering, defining strategy, building workforce, overseeing organizational design, directing scalable solutions, championing CI/CD and observability, collaborating with product teams, defining standards and KPIs, advising senior leadership on platform health and risk, and ensuring platform capabilities meet business needs. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer (Skywalker Sound) Senior Software Engineer at Disney's Skywalker Sound Development Group, focusing on next-generation tools for audio soundtracks and media distribution. The role involves leading the software development lifecycle for media pipeline components, mentoring engineers, driving technical roadmaps, and implementing secure coding practices within a cloud-native environment. Requires expertise in full-stack development, databases, Kubernetes, and API architecture, with a focus on audio and video post-production workflows. | — | 0 |
| Senior Portfolio Manager This role is for a Senior Portfolio Manager within Disney's Enterprise Technology department. The primary focus is on managing technology portfolios, including project ideation, scoping, prioritization, and cost transparency. The role involves collaborating with leaders, stakeholders, and analysts to align services and products with organizational strategies and business outcomes. Key responsibilities include conducting portfolio review meetings, defining and implementing portfolio processes, supporting cost optimization, and managing cross-portfolio dependencies. While AI experience is listed as a plus, the core responsibilities are centered around traditional portfolio and financial management within a technology context, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Software Development Engineer in Test Senior Manager to lead and scale Quality Engineering organization supporting commerce, data, and advertising systems. Will provide strategic, operational, and technical leadership across multiple quality engineering teams, ensuring robust test automation, reliability, and business impact at scale. Develop and execute a quality strategy that drives measurable improvement in system reliability, speed of delivery, and product excellence, partnering closely with executives, engineering leadership, and cross-functional business units. Ideal candidates are visionary people leaders with a proven track record of growing high-performing teams, implementing transformational quality programs, and delivering significant value in complex and rapidly evolving environments. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling client-side applications for Disney's streaming and digital products, including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. The role involves technical leadership, architectural design, code quality enforcement, and mentoring senior developers. Requires extensive experience in web application development, Javascript, Typescript, and React, with a focus on user-centered experiences and seamless journeys from login to account management. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, focusing on building and improving the infrastructure for streaming and digital products, particularly for the Growth, Commerce & Identity organization. The role involves developing software for Roku commerce and identity experiences, collaborating with senior engineers, and partnering with UX to create user-centered features across platforms like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally, specifically within the Commerce, Data & Identity (CDI) group. This role involves developing and operating tier-1 services for direct-to-consumer video businesses like Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu, focusing on digital commerce, identity, and growth initiatives. Responsibilities include tech design, code and architecture reviews, and end-to-end feature ownership. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager Program Manager to lead the delivery and evolution of Disney’s enterprise consumer data initiatives, focusing on data onboarding, new data products & feature development, and prioritizing data sharing and activation initiatives. The role involves bridging feature development, analytics, data governance, and activation to ensure reliable, high-quality data and innovative solutions that support analytics, activation, and enterprise growth, while honoring guest privacy and trust. | — | 0 |
| Senior Executive Producer Senior Executive Producer for ABC7 Los Angeles morning news platforms, responsible for strategy, execution, editorial direction, and team leadership across linear and streaming. Requires extensive experience in major market newsroom management and ability to make fast editorial decisions under pressure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Reporter Senior Reporter for ABC News Washington, focusing on international affairs, national security, intelligence, and politics. Requires strong reporting, writing, source development, and editorial judgment in a fast-paced news environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Media Streaming Engineer Principal Media Streaming Engineer at Disney focused on designing, implementing, and enhancing encoding and processing workflows for on-demand video streaming products. Responsibilities include building automation tools, developing operational insights through metrics and dashboards, and ensuring system reliability and performance. The role involves partnering with development teams, evaluating new technologies, and providing technical guidance. | — | 0 |
| Culinary Standards Manager Manage culinary standards, menu development, recipe implementation, and cost management for Disney Cruise Line's various food and beverage offerings, including main dining, a la carte, food courts, and crew/officer dining. Responsibilities include recipe auditing, ensuring consistency, and leading audits and training. Requires significant experience in executive culinary roles and menu development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology, specifically on the Commerce Growth Messaging team. This role involves driving the technical evolution of a mission-critical, multi-tenant platform that serves millions of global subscribers across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. The engineer will be a key architect ensuring transactional messaging is resilient, scalable, and highly available, impacting international expansion and global market navigation for a seamless commerce experience. | — | 0 |
| Lead Media Systems Engineer Lead Media Systems Engineer responsible for the acquisition, production, and distribution of media content, including system sustainment, design/build of production systems, and technical staff management. Focuses on media supply chain, content distribution, and ensuring system quality, efficiency, and resiliency. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Technical Project Manager Manager, Technical Project Manager at Disney Experiences Technology, responsible for leading the development and implementation of technical projects and programs. This role involves project planning, risk assessment, financial management, team leadership, and ensuring alignment with organizational priorities. Requires experience in technical project management, supporting large-scale digital platforms, and Agile methodologies. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Development Engineer in Test Principal Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to lead quality engineering for streaming, data, and advertising systems. The role involves setting strategic direction for automation, quality practices, and test architectures, partnering cross-functionally, and driving innovation in automated testing. The candidate will influence organizational decisions, lead architecture of test automation solutions, and mentor teams. Emphasis on adopting emerging technologies like AI/ML in testing and advanced observability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Disney Entertainment and ESPN, focusing on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying scalable software solutions using Scala and backend languages, with a strong emphasis on cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), distributed systems, and observability. The team supports Disney, ESPN, and Hulu subscriptions at scale, solving internet-scale problems. Experience with functional programming, modern DevOps, and cloud-native technologies is required. The role mentions following best practices for the safe use of LLMs but is not primarily an AI/ML development role. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on developing and supporting real-time, event-driven data systems, APIs, and web applications for Disney Entertainment and ESPN. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining backend services using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, SQL Server, and MongoDB, with some frontend work in React. The role involves system performance, reliability, data accuracy, troubleshooting, and modernization of legacy systems within an Agile environment. Requires participation in live event support and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| SEO Referrals Strategist This role focuses on SEO and referral traffic strategy for ESPN, aiming to increase audience engagement and content visibility. While it mentions the 'rise of AI' and 'AI age', the core responsibilities involve traditional SEO, content optimization, and analytics, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Content Security Technical Program Manager This role is a Technical Program Manager focused on Content Security within The Walt Disney Studios. The TPM will partner with assessment and engineering teams to ensure secure design and integration of cloud platforms, application tools, and AI technologies. Responsibilities include driving cross-functional programs, optimizing security workflows, developing metrics, and staying updated on emerging trends in AI and cloud security. The role requires strong project management skills, technical acumen in cybersecurity and cloud environments, and the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable plans. | — | 0 |
| Sr Database Administrator The Senior Database Administrator role at Disney Experiences Technology focuses on building, deploying, and maintaining highly available and fault-tolerant database infrastructure (Relational and NoSQL, including AWS RDS) for enterprise-wide initiatives. Responsibilities include performance tuning, automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and disaster recovery planning, with a requirement for 24/7 availability and on-call rotation. | — | 0 |