Principal Product Manager, CDI

The Walt Disney Company-posted 6 days ago

$184,300 - $270,700/Yr

Full-time • Senior

Seattle, WA

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This is a unique, senior product role within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology organization. This role will serve as a strategic product leader and trusted advisor to the VP, Data Product Management within Disney’s Entertainment & ESPN Technology division. It is an individual contributor role (non-people manager), directly reporting to the VP of Data Product Management, and part of the Data Product leadership team. The role is pivotal in driving the execution of cross-functional strategic initiatives, ensuring operational efficiency, and fostering collaboration, alignment, and product excellence across the data organization. This role will manage key product initiatives, facilitate communication, and provide critical support to data product leadership in achieving the department's goals and driving an innovative strategy for enabling Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer Sports and Entertainment businesses with data solutions to enable quick and impactful insights and power uniquely Disney customer experiences.

Strategic Product Planning and Execution: Develop and execute strategic data initiatives spanning multiple data infrastructure, tools, and solutions teams in support of major business programs driving growth and engagement with Disney’s direct-to-consumer entertainment & sports streaming platforms (Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, etc.).
Cross-Organizational Operational Efficiency: Oversee daily data product operations, help streamline processes, and implement best practices to enhance productivity and efficiency within the department.
Communication and Collaboration: Facilitate effective communication within the department and with stakeholders, internal partner teams, vendors, and technology providers by helping to develop impactful executive/board level presentations, status updates, project memos, and product release materials. Help manage critical vendor relationships and contracts, facilitate build/buy decision processes. Foster a collaborative environment and ensure strategic and operational consistency across teams.
Executive Support: Provide high-level support to the Vice President, including preparing reports, presentations, and other materials. Assist in decision-making processes by providing insights and recommendations, act as a senior representative for the data product organization to the broader business and partner technology teams.
Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Represent the Vice President and data product team in meetings and discussions as needed.
Data Governance and Compliance: Help ensure cross-team adherence to data governance policies and regulatory requirements. Promote a culture of data integrity and security within the organization.
Product Strategy and Vision: Help develop and communicate a clear data product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's goals and objectives and enables a broad set of dependent stakeholders across business and technology teams to access, interpret, and activate data.
Market Research: Conduct market research to identify customer needs, market trends, competitive & technology landscape. Use insights to inform product development and positioning.
Product Roadmap: Create and maintain a cross-team product roadmap that outlines the development and release of new features and enhancements. Prioritize initiatives based on business value and customer impact.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, data science, marketing, sales, business operations, etc. to ensure successful product development and launch. Facilitate communication and collaboration among stakeholders.
Requirements Gathering: Gather and document detailed product requirements from stakeholders, including customers, internal teams, and executives. Translate requirements into actionable tasks for the development team.
Data Governance: Ensure that data products adhere to data governance policies and best practices. Promote data quality, integrity, and security within the organization.
Performance Monitoring: Monitor and analyze the performance of data products using key metrics and KPIs. Identify areas for improvement and implement changes to enhance product performance.
Customer Feedback: Collect and analyze customer feedback to understand user needs and pain points. Use feedback to drive product improvements and enhancements.
Product Launch: Plan and execute product launches, including developing marketing materials, training internal teams, and coordinating with external partners. Ensure a smooth and successful product rollout.
Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies. Continuously seek opportunities to innovate and improve data products.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, or a related technical field.
Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in a product management role, with a strong background in data management, analytics, data governance.
Skills: Excellent product management skills with a track record of successful delivery of complex technical products.
Excellent written and verbal communication
Strong leadership skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Proficiency in data management tools and technologies.
Must be highly proactive and able to self-manage.
Must be able to drive delivery through partnership and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Attributes: Strategic thinker with a proactive approach.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization.

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