AI Technical Project Manager (E-Commerce/Digital)

Overview

Remote
$100 - $110
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

Digital
Aritificial Intelligence

Job Details

ROLE: Senior Technical Project Manager (AI)

LOCATION: Orlando, FL onsite ~2x/week (Remote allowed for strong candidates willing to travel as needed)

TYPE: Long-term contract (multi-year)

Hiring Manager notes:

AI experience not from Infrastructure or DevOps experience. Most of the resumes I received yesterday were Infrastructure or DevOps related. Not what she is looking for.

Experience needs to be recent and specifically with Ai for a minimum of 3-4 years (ideally 5) not digital transformations. Manager is specifically looking for Ai projects either within ecommerce, digital space, or similar. They hired someone from Amazon and it was a perfect fit for them.

Must have managed projects of budgets in a minimum of $20-25M ( ideally within Ai) this current project at Disney will be a $30M , and could grow to $50M if they add other Disney areas manager rejected someone yesterday because he had only managed budgets of 10-15M


IMPORTANT: Candidates must be fully screened and will require a video interview with our team prior to submittal.
CORE REQUIREMENTS

  1. AI Implementation Enterprise-scale AI project experience in a large, matrixed environment.
  2. Executive Presence Build polished decks, present confidently to C-suite, backup presenter for HM, strong storytelling, and precision. Presence and communication skills are highly important
  3. Project Leadership Act as scrum of scrums, manage details (JIRA, risks, blockers), resolve/escalate issues, influence without authority.
  4. Culture & Fit Disney culture > Big Tech culture. Must be collaborative, detail-obsessed, approachable, and able to adapt to a very directive hiring manager. This is not optional candidates without this fit will not pass interviews, regardless of technical skill.

ROLE SUMMARY

  • Initiative: Multi-year AI project, kickoff today; expected to run through 2027 with possible extensions.
  • Reason Open: Newly created role for new initiative.

TEAM STRUCTURE

  • Role spans business and technology workstreams.
  • Provides dotted-line oversight of ~10 PMs (Disney + vendor).
  • Oversight = coordination/direction only, no performance reviews.

DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Attend multiple workstream meetings daily (track risks, progress, blockers).
  • Consolidate updates into executive-level summaries.
  • Drive alignment across ~10 PMs and vendors, escalate issues when needed.
  • Balance strategic oversight with detail-level involvement (including JIRA).

CULTURE & FIT

  • Collaborative, approachable, low ego.
  • Extremely detail-oriented; formatting/precision highly valued.
  • Must adapt to hands-on, directive hiring manager.
  • Expected to take direction, then execute independently.
  • Will interface with long-tenured Disney stakeholders (10 25+ years).
  • Disney culture prioritized over Big Tech culture (Microsoft/Meta candidates will likely not be a fit).

INTERVIEW PROCESS (after our screening)

  • Target Timeline: Aim to complete within one week.
  • Round 1: Hiring Manager + Delivery-Side Executive.
  • Round 2: Two VPs.
  • Format: Structured Q&A plus candidate-provided sample (non-confidential) executive presentations.
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