Director, Data Product Management

The Walt Disney Company • Burbank, CA

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About The Position

About the Role & Team The Disney Corporate Brand team is looking for a Director, Data Product Management to own and evolve our unified view of enterprise consumer data. This role is pivotal in ensuring our data products and technical architecture are best-in-class to drive robust analytics, personalization, and marketing activation, including ongoing optimization & evolution of data collection and management for future transformation and development. What You Will Do As a key leader within the team, you will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for managing our unified enterprise consumer data technical architecture and a strategic suite of related data products. You will collaborate closely with internal teams across Disney – including Analytics, Data Science, Marketing, and Business teams – empowering them to leverage trusted, high-quality data to drive business decisions, marketing activation, and enhance user experiences across the enterprise. This role requires a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise, capable of translating business needs into actionable data architecture and product roadmaps while balancing scalability, performance, and privacy compliance.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data product management, platform development, data engineering, or related fields
• Strong experience with big data storage, processing technologies, and modeling techniques (Snowflake, Redshift, OLAP, etc.)
• Experience & familiarity with CDPs, activation platforms, and governance tools
• Experience working with data ingestion APIs, warehouse infrastructure, and data sharing technologies
• Strong understanding of identity resolution and effective data management
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams and vendor relationships
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and deliver scalable, high-impact data solutions
• Ability to lead, support, and grow a high-performing team
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Graduate degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Own and define the vision, strategy, and technical architecture for full data product suite (e.g., consumer database, activation toolset(s), governance toolset(s), etc.) ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Data Architecture, Privacy, Governance, and Business Teams to build scalable, compliant, and highly available data products to enable effective use of cross-enterprise consumer data
• Lead new data product ideas & initiatives , including development of robust product roadmap(s) ; track progress to build enhanced capabilities over time
• Lead data engineering and operational functions & staff , including overseeing inbound/outbound data feeds and managing system performance and availability
• Enable data activation by ensuring consumer data is architected for analytics, machine learning, data science, and other data use cases.
• Oversee stakeholder access, prioritizing intake requests and ensuring timely, compliant data delivery
• Develop/manage privacy compliance technical framework , including data access and related controls.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director