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Manager-Costume Design & Development (Ready-to-Wear) – Internal Assignment (IA)/Project Hire (PH)

Job ID 10125763 Location Orlando, Florida, United States Business Walt Disney Imagineering Date posted Sep. 18, 2025
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Job Summary:

Through innovative storytelling and collaboration, Disney Live Entertainment crafts, produces, and delivers remarkable and engaging entertainment experiences! From the intimate to the spectacular, our work can be seen at Disney theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and other locations the world over. This diverse team – representing a wide variety of fields and talents from technical directors, writers and lighting designers to choreographers, cosmetologists, and music producers – brings magical worlds to life through technical expertise, performance excellence, incomparable ingenuity, unparalleled spectacle… and a dash of pixie dust!

The Manager-Costume Design & Development is a leader responsible for a team of highly collaborative professionals that handle the development of ready-to-wear garments for our cast working in attractions, food and beverage and hotels. Successful candidates will lead the development lifecycle from fiscal feasibility through implementation.

This position reports to the Senior Manager, Costume Design & Development

This is a temporary role with no guarantee of permanent placement.

What You Will Do

  • Provide daily leadership, coaching, and mentoring to a team of direct & indirect reports, including ensuring the team receives accurate training and understands their role and how to perform it.

  • Review and prepare workflow, resource needs, and action plans while ensuring efficiency, quality, and customer service standards are met

  • Create financial estimates, spend plans, and regular ongoing financial report-outs for all active projects

  • Ensure costume standards are being met for operational costumes including but not limited to area functionality, area staffing strategies and cost comparisons.

  • Look for areas of opportunity to improve efficiency for the organization and strive for consistent processes within the department.

  • Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and implementing standards and procedures and aligning with Company guidelines

  • Establish an open and encouraging working relationship with co-workers and support staff across the organization, and across partnering teams including but not limited to Art Directors, Inventory Planning and Buying teams.

  • Proactively identify operational issues, recommend and implement strategies to resolve

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in the garment industry with a focus on ready-to-wear/uniform/apparel product development

  • 5+ years experience leading salaried and hourly non-union employees

  • Experience delivering uniform/apparel development projects timely and on-budget while communicating with executive leadership, sponsors, and clients

  • Problem-solving and conflict resolution experience

  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment with competing tasks

  • Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction

  • Experience delivering direct written and oral feedback

  • Experience communicating (written & verbal) with all levels of partners with focus on Executive communication

  • Experience collaborating and working through compromise that result in win/win agreements and outcomes

  • Experience facilitating team meetings and large workshops to drive commitments and accountability

  • Experience working in a business environment where cost benefit and return on investment analysis are key decision factors

  • Ability to drive between work locations in a given day

  • Ability to be flexible with work schedule, including extended hours and holidays

  • Ability to work around all types of fabrics, fibers, and synthetic furs 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with product lifecycle management (PLM) applications

  • Experience with project and/or product management

Education

  • High School diploma or equivalent is required

  • Advanced degree in Costuming, Fashion, Apparel, or related fields is preferred

Additional Information

Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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About Walt Disney Imagineering:

Founded in 1952 as WED Enterprises to design and build the world’s first theme park — Disneyland — Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) is where imagination and creativity combine with cutting-edge technology to create unforgettable experiences. WDI is the creative force that imagines, designs and builds all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions and cruise ships worldwide. Imagineering’s unique strength comes from its diverse global team of creative and technical professionals, who build on Disney’s legacy of storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment. The Imagineers who practice this unique blend of art and science work in more than 100 disciplines to shepherd an idea all the way from “blue sky” concept phase to opening day.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Imagineering Live, LLC, which is part of a business we call Walt Disney Imagineering.

Disney Imagineering Live, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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