Sr Product Solutions Mgr I - Project Hire

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, CA

6d • Onsite

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 create world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. This role is within the Content Platforms & Operations group, responsible for the development and advancement of technical and operational functions for worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain, storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, and network transmission and origination. The team also collaborates with Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams. The Product Manager will collaborate with business end-users, third-party vendors, software engineering teams, and other Product professionals. This role will focus on custom development for features within the Disney Music Group (DMG) technological ecosystem, working on SaaS applications. The Product Manager will refine designs, scope, and document epic/feature/user stories in an Agile environment, present findings to SaaS vendors, and work with team members and stakeholders to develop solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years of experience
• Effective Communication - including extensive experience w/ application end users
• Ability to solve problems - identifying multiple relevant scenarios
• Critical thinking & analytical thinking
• Process modeling knowledge (+ documentation)

Nice To Haves

• Over 5 years of experience in Product Management
• Knowledge of phases of product development – concept, design, development, QA and UAT
• Must be an expert in use case analysis, workflows and process mapping
• Excellent communication skills and great listener
• Solid technical background in modern database and system architecture
• Working understanding of Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Entertainment domain and enterprise architecture experience are a plus
• Strong documentation skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PPT, Visio, Google Suite, LucidChart, etc.)
• SQL skills is a plus
• Master’s degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Business Administration or related fields
• Experience working with various SMEs across various workflows
• Experience working with SaaS vendors
• Experience with Jira, Confluence or similar work management tool is a plus
• Experience in Visualization tools (e.g. Tableau) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Product Manager for the Repertoire Management product team delivering products that solve problems through web interfaces to deliver a new, innovative integrated service to our business users.
• Facilitate requirement sessions with stakeholders, properly prioritize features and creates comprehensive requirements for delivery team.
• Drive consensus among stakeholders with conflicting needs.
• Document epics, features, and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Use Agile best practices, as well as pragmatic ingenuity, to build requirements and stories with the primary goal of consistent incremental delivery of MVP and multi-phased product solutions.
• Work with multiple stakeholders – engineers, other product owners to create, iterate, maintain and communicate product roadmaps.
• Collaborate and coordinate across the music portfolio of products to drive and solve any dependencies (inter or intra).
• Lead user-acceptance testing for the Product Team and guide select business users during their turn of user-acceptance testing.

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: Senior