Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization
About The Position
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization focused on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The team combines technology with creativity to develop world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. The Commerce, Data & Identity group within this organization manages core product functions for digital commerce, identity, growth, messaging, privacy, and data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN. This role is a high-impact, senior leadership position responsible for defining and leading the product strategy for customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization across multiple brands globally. The Executive Director will manage a team of product managers, shape the growth engine through value creation and capture, and collaborate with various departments to deliver sustainable growth.
Requirements
- 12+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing PM teams at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree
- Proven track record of delivering growth and monetization impact in a subscription, marketplace, or consumer platform business.
- Deep expertise in customer acquisition, plan tiering, upsell strategies, account management, retention, and monetization.
- Strong growth mindset with the ability to set ambitious goals, test hypotheses, and adapt strategies based on insights.
- Technical aptitude to partner closely with engineering and data teams on platform capabilities and system design.
- Experience considering ROI, financial tradeoffs, value creation, and value capture in product decisions.
- Exceptional analytical, storytelling, and executive communication skills.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and leading cross-functional alignment at the executive level.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in entertainment, media, or adjacent industries strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term growth and monetization strategy across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition to retention and revenue optimization.
- Oversee product roadmaps and delivery, ensuring initiatives drive measurable business and customer impact in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
- Build, coach, and scale a high-performing team of product managers, fostering a culture of deep consumer and business understanding, experimentation, learning, and results.
- Develop innovative offerings that deliver customer value while driving sustainable revenue growth.
- Establish a culture of A/B testing, data-driven learning, and rapid iteration across acquisition, conversion, and retention funnels.
- Navigate complex ecosystems, understanding incentives and trade-offs across customer, business, and partner needs.
- Collaborate with other product teams, marketing, engineering, design, data, finance, and business development to align on goals and execute effectively.
- Deeply understand and influence platform capabilities and technical constraints to scale growth and monetization initiatives globally.
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
