Senior Manager, AI & Machine Learning Engineering

** Department

Description:

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* At Disney, we're storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses.

Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we're constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

** Team

Description:

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* We are the Finance Engineering & AI team, and we exist to be Finance's technical partner - for FP&A, Payroll, Controllership, and Tax & Treasury alike - turning business process needs into working software and intelligent automation. Our AI Platform team designs and builds the intelligent automation layer that streamlines and scales finance workflows, while our Business Process Applications team owns and operates the core systems finance relies on every day.

Together, we combine deep finance domain expertise with custom engineering to give Finance both a stable operational backbone and a path toward an increasingly automated future.

** What You'll Do:*
* Disney Financial Insights (D-Fi) is a new platform reimagining how Finance teams and budget owners across Disney interact with financial data - replacing manual pulls, static reports, and email-driven approvals with one AI-powered, orchestrated experience built on top of Disney financial systems.

We're hiring a Senior Manager, AI & Machine Learning, as the founding engineering leader for this AI framework: a hands-on manager and technical lead who will build and run a global engineering team based in Buenos Aires AR, delivering the AI/ML layer, the intelligent data foundation, software workflows/orchestration, and natural-language experience that sits at the center of D-Fi.

This is a build-from-scratch mandate - you'll be shaping team structure, engineering practices, and technical architecture from an early stage (MVP in progress), not inheriting a mature system.

This role is the primary technical point of contact for finance stakeholders & cross-functional partners and is accountable for translating the platform roadmap into a shipped, governed, production-grade system.

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** Senior Manager, AI & Machine Learning,
** you'll be setting architecture, reviewing design decisions, and staying hands-on enough to credibly evaluate trade-offs your team brings you. This role is also expected to be hands-on - stepping in on implementation, unblocking technical issues in real time, and reviewing code with the depth that comes from doing the work yourself, not just overseeing it.

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** Own technical direction end-to-end.
** Set architecture and technical strategy for the AI/ML and data layers underpinning D-Fi, ensuring every capability - variance analysis, scenario modeling, the natural-language experience - is built on a governed, semantic data foundation rather than one-off pipelines.

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** Be the stakeholder-facing technical lead.
** Act as the primary engineering liaison to finance business partners and leadership - translating challenging business needs into a scoped, buildable technical roadmap, and representing engineering trade-offs credibly to technical and non-technical partners and…