Sr Mgr Product Management
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. Product Management is responsible for driving the overall user experience, feature strategies and concepts, and engagement paradigms for Disney Entertainment & ESPN's global portfolio of consumer-facing streaming and digital products – including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, Nat Geo, Marvel, and Star Wars. This role sits within the Media Product team, whose mission is to enhance our users’ content and viewing experiences through scalable, innovative capabilities across our media ecosystem. The team owns the end-to-end systems that power the content journey for our streaming subscribers, from acquisition to exhibition, across VOD, live, and linear formats. Our responsibilities span across ingestion, metadata model and content catalog, media encoding, operational tooling, CDN, content security, and video players. Together, our platform ensures that every piece of entertainment, sports, and news content reaches audiences reliably, securely, and in the highest possible quality. We are a team of technologists and product leaders who obsess about delivering seamless, world-class media experiences at global scale. We partner closely with engineering, operations, and business teams to ensure our media foundation not only supports today’s streaming needs but also anticipates those of the future.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product management or a related discipline.
- Experience leading and developing PM teams, with demonstrated investment in coaching and raising the standard of product thinking.
- Experience owning product strategy across a complex, multi-domain platform or media technology environment, with accountability for measurable outcomes.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to frame portfolio strategy for executive audiences and align cross-functional stakeholders.
- Proven ability to operate across organizational boundaries and unblock teams in ambiguous situations.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with live media workflows: signal acquisition, live event orchestration, linear playout, dMVPD and DVR, SCTE 224 / SCTE-35 processing, and in-stream ad insertion.
- Experience with FAST channel operations and content marking, decoration, and scheduling systems.
- Platform or infrastructure PM background at a large-scale streaming or media technology organization.
- Experience building or scaling a product team in a new or evolving domain.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted PM workflows and a point of view on how they raise team productivity and craft.
Responsibilities
- Set and own product vision, strategy, and OKRs across the Live and Linear Media Pipeline portfolio, aligned to broader Media Platform and enterprise objectives.
- Build compelling business cases for Live and Linear Pipeline investments; identify emerging problems in the domain and bring the organizational clarity needed to address them.
- Serve as the senior PM partner to engineering leaders in the live domain, establishing joint roadmap and strategy cadences and driving alignment across live pipeline domains.
- Collaborate with VOD Pipeline, Content Metadata, and Distribution and Playback PMs to maintain coherent end-to-end content journey ownership.
- Lead and coach a geographically distributed team of PMs; build a culture aligned to our Media-generalist model including PMs who use AI-assisted tools to accelerate discovery and sharpen their work.
- Maintain working fluency across the live and linear platform; identify where AI and automation can improve reliability, reduce operational burden, or unlock new capabilities.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
