Applied AI Engineering Manager — Hands-on Leader

1008 Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.; California (MO); Vor Ort; USD 172.000 - 230.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Disney is seeking a Manager, Applied AI to join its Applied AI Acceleration team in California. You will build and lead a small AI-native squad, shipping AI-powered products that solve real business problems and deliver measurable value.

The role emphasizes user-centered problem solving, collaboration, and hands-on leadership; you’ll be code-aligned with your team, shipping together in a fast-paced, frontier-facing environment.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 2+ years’ leadership-adjacent role: Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Consulting Engagement Lead, Solutions Engineering lead, or equivalent
• Experience with delivery of AI-powered products end-to-end.
• LLMs, agents, embeddings, classical ML
• Working fluency with the modern AI application stack - in production: prompt design, RAG, tool-calling agents, eval harnesses
• Data literacy.
• SQL, APIs, basic transformations.
• Experience leading people - Direct reports, tech leads and/or engagement teams

Aufgaben

• End-to-end delivery of 2–4 concurrent AI engagements with different Cadence.
• Stand up a squad of 2–4 builders - Applied AI Engineers, a Squad Anchor or partnership with the Principal Applied AI Engineer, occasional Data Engineer or TPM pairing.
• Review PRs in codebase, pairing on hard problems, picking up Cursor and working through the stuck parts.
• The opening of every engagement: finding the real problem underneath the stated one, proving feasibility fast, and deciding what's worth shipping.
• Stakeholder relationships across all levels of the organization - You translate between business outcomes and technical tradeoffs without losing nuance in either direction.
• Pattern extraction.
• Every engagement yields at least one reusable component, playbook, or template that the practice can deploy on the next one.

Kenntnisse

AI product delivery

Leadership

Stakeholder management

SQL

APIs

Data literacy

Problem solving

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Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study

Tools

Cursor

Claude

Jobbeschreibung

Disney is seeking a Manager, Applied AI to join its Applied AI Acceleration team in California. You will build and lead a small AI-native squad, shipping AI-powered products that solve real business problems and deliver measurable value.

The role emphasizes user-centered problem solving, collaboration, and hands-on leadership; you’ll be code-aligned with your team, shipping together in a fast-paced, frontier-facing environment.