Director, AI Enablement & Strategy

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 229,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Long-term incentives

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA / Orlando, FL seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead AI enablement and strategy for Disney Experiences Technology. You will own the AI augmentation roadmap, define the operating model, and drive adoption across engineering and product teams to achieve measurable value.

Reporting to the VP of AI Augmentation Strategy, this role orchestrates cross-functional collaboration, ROI tracking, and investment prioritization for a large-scale,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in technology, including 5+ years in management or senior leadership roles.
• Demonstrated ability to design and run technology augmentation programs across complex, matrixed organizations with multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Experience defining and tracking technology ROI and value dashboards for senior leadership.
• Strong change management and organizational influence skills; track record of driving adoption and culture change without direct authority.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, including senior executive engagement.
• Strong change management capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technical development teams in partnership across DXT to set technical direction to enable value generation.
• Establish and communicate the AI augmentation roadmap and operating model across DXT, translating strategic direction into a sequenced, resourced plan with clear owners and milestones.
• Own the AI Value Dashboard and ROI framework, attributing measurable improvements in KPIs, productivity, quality, and value stream velocity to specific augmentation initiatives; report outcomes to senior leadership and executive sponsors.
• Lead the portfolio view across all AI augmentation workstreams, managing dependencies, sequencing, risk, issue escalation, and investment prioritization across a complex, concurrent program.
• Partner with finance and portfolio management on AI investment forecasting, value capture modeling, and OKR/KPI definition.
• Influence and align senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Project Management, Operations, Design, and Quality on AI augmentation priorities, accelerating decisions and resolving fragmentation that slows progress.
• Manage risk and issues across the augmentation workstreams, ensuring blockers surface and resolve without loss of momentum.
• Lead the culture shift toward AI fluency and an AI-native mindset, designing and scaling experimentation programs, developer fluency initiatives, and adoption pathways that meet cast where they are.
• Own adoption and sentiment tracking across DXT; use data to identify where adoption is accelerating, stalling, or at risk, and drive targeted interventions.
• Design and run structured change management across the AI augmentation program, partnering with change management resources and Gemstone AI to ensure practices are embraced and sustained.
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Skills

Leadership

AI strategy

Stakeholder management

Change management

SDLC understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA / Orlando, FL seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead AI enablement and strategy for Disney Experiences Technology. You will own the AI augmentation roadmap, define the operating model, and drive adoption across engineering and product teams to achieve measurable value.

Reporting to the VP of AI Augmentation Strategy, this role orchestrates cross-functional collaboration, ROI tracking, and investment prioritization for a large-scale,