Walt Disney Imagineering's R&D, Conversational Design Intern, Summer 2024

Glendale, CA, USA
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Job Description


Be a part of an innovative team and culture…  

Walt Disney Imagineering's Research & Development organization is building a new A.I. Character Studio to allow Guests and our beloved characters to share new interactive experiences and stories. The team comprises a cross-disciplinary group of designers, writers, artists, and software engineers. Its charter includes developing a robust and scalable entertainment platform supporting interactive character experiences with up to millions of concurrent users. The studio develops mobile, VR, AR, Mixed Reality, and custom physically situated applications built on a core platform, independently and in partnership with 3rd party developers.

A Day in the Life…  

We're seeking a conversation design intern to create and implement interactive conversation-based experiences for our guests. You will intern for the writing team, developing new experiences in deploying interactive characters. This is a chance to learn from some of the world-class conversation designers at Disney, pioneering this new storytelling artform using state-of-the-art AI technologies. You are open-minded, highly collaborative, flexible, and scrappy while ensuring a high degree of polish for guest-facing products and experiences. The new AI Character Studio members are expected to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-style environment where ambiguity and building things from zero to one are the norm.
Responsibilities/You Will...
  • Participate in the writer's room, completing assignments and receiving and implementing feedback.
  • Work with the creative team to test and refine content. Work on the front end of experience development, brainstorming, outlining, and potentially producing final lines for production.
  • Actively participate in testing and feedback sessions, identify "holes" in the logic or experience, and provide solutions for other team members and users.

What we are looking for…  

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Ability to define and express new concepts through treatments, script-walk-throughs, improv, or prototyped interactive experiences
  • Story development, script writing, and editing experience or interest within Narrative Game Design, Animation, Television, or Theatre.
  • Ability to manage & prioritize multiple assignments in a highly dynamic production environment.
  • Interest in new technologies for creative expression, immersive experience development, and/or other forms of new social content creation platforms and distribution.

Required Education...

  • Currently enrolled as a Junior or higher, or graduated in the past 6 months from an accredited college/university, earning a Bachelor's degree in film/theatrical writing, game design, interaction design, film, English, creative writing, communications, linguistics, or psychology

Additional Information...

  • Must be at least 18 years of age​ 

  • Must not have completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or program. ​ 

  • Must possess unrestricted work authorization 

  • Program Length: The approximate dates of this internship are May/June - August/September 2024

  • Interns must be fully available for the duration of a 12-week assignment

  • Must provide own housing for the duration of the internship program in Glendale, CA area

  • Must have reliable transportation to/from work

Pay Rate:

The pay rate for this internship is $25.00 per hour.


The pay rate for this internship in California is $25.00 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits, visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits

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