Product Solutions Mgr II

The Walt Disney Company • Seattle, WA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team.

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree required
• 3+ years of Product Management experience or related field
• Moderate knowledge of programming paradigms, core software design principals and product roadmaps
• Technical understanding of system communications, APIs, application integration
• Adapts quickly to changing situations
• Has fundamental to intermediate knowledge of and skills in Project Management, Agile/Scrum/Kanban Methodology, Engineering Practices, Relationship Management and Service Management
• Analytical, resourceful, and detail oriented, with the ability to plan, prioritize, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Fundamental knowledge and integrated use of AI tools
• Effectively knows when to raise issues and who to engage to resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur.
• Works independently under time constraints to meet deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

• MBA or technical degree
• Proficient experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence)
• Moderate experience with a variety of corporate tools including ServiceNow, Airtable, data Visualization Tools (Tableau, PowerBI), MS Office 365, MS Teams, and Co-Pilot.
• Strongly passionate about the opportunity to work for The Walt Disney Company.

Responsibilities

• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services
• Solves problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions
• Collaborates and informally guides colleagues with less experience
• Manages cross-organization efforts to ensure product approval, then directs their introduction
• Executes competitive and consumer analysis
• Owns multiple features of the product roadmap execution end-to-end
• Coordinates cross-functional efforts, handles dependencies, and resolves most team-level blockers
• Delivers product releases, measuring impact against KPIs
• Utilizes research to measure trade-offs and can re-align execution to meet high-level goal
• Shows leadership in product squad to deliver features with manageable risks and resource requirements
• Responsible for product management activities for one or more products, or portions of key products
• Makes and drives recommendations to improve product(s) or processes utilizing user research and and/or design concepts
• Coordinates with outside vendors and internal strategic partners to ensure that product initiatives are well-defined and delivered on time
• Collaborates closely with internal and external clients to design and implement solutions

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees