Senior Product Manager

Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Glendale
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Product ManagerJob ID: 10114888Location: Glendale, California, United StatesBusiness: The Walt Disney StudiosDate posted: 3---. 12, 2025Job Summary:Disney has created one of the most powerful brands by bringing memorable, life-changing storytelling to the world. The foundation of this creativity starts with The Walt Disney Studios. As a member of the Studio Technology Team, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of products and software solutions supporting our production, content operations, and marketing teams.Job Description:We are looking for a talented Senior Product Manager to join our dynamic team supporting the Studio's media supply chain including planning, ordering, and media fulfillment. As a Product Manager, you will own a vertical of product applications end-to-end: shape product value proposition, drive execution, and solve stakeholder problems across TWDS. The nature of work will be varied, ranging from complex inbound requests to large strategic bets. This is an individual contributor position; it fits well for those who enjoy hands-on product work while owning product strategy. You will act as a liaison between executive business stakeholders and the technology team, translating business needs into functional requirements and ensuring that our products meet high standards of quality and user expectations. Scope of role includes product ownership of an entire vertical of technical components, but also horizontally partnering with teams across Disney.Responsibilities:

• Deep Market Understanding: We believe the foundation for all excellent product management is the ability to live alongside customers, develop relationships, and understand their goals + pain points. This will also require identifying customer needs, a competitive landscape, emerging trends to inform product strategy.
• Product Vision & Roadmap Development: Defining a clear product value proposition, maintaining a product backlog, and prioritizing features based on business goals and user feedback.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Leading and collaborating with executive cross-functional teams including engineering, design, operations, and customer success teams to ensure smooth product development and execution. This role will include participation and reporting to executive steering committees.
• User Research & Feedback Analysis: Actively gather and analyze user feedback through interviews, surveys, and usage data to drive product improvements.
• Product Launch Strategy: Developing and executing successful product/feature launch strategy including product enablement/launch.
• Metric & Performance Monitoring: Defining key performance indicators (KPIs), tracking product performance, and making data-influenced decisions to optimize support of the Media Platforms & App vision established by Sr. Leaders.
• Technical Understanding: Good understanding of technical products and effectively communicating product needs to the development team. Craft well-constructed technical user stories based on business goals, developer feedback, and personal expertise.
• Stakeholder Management: Effectively communicating product plans and updates to key stakeholders, including senior leadership, ensuring alignment across OKRs.Requirements:
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of related experience.
  • Soft skills: Excellent communication skills, leadership abilities, problem-solving skills, customer focus.
  • Prior experience in an agile development environment, with a solid understanding of SCRUM principles and methodologies.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.
  • Proficient in translating complex concepts and requests between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working independently or collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
  • Capable of analyzing existing datasets to uncover actionable insights.Preferred:
    • Previous experience as the analyst or associate technical product manager for a technical product team.
    • Previous experience developing or supporting a video streaming platform.
    • An understanding of the digital media supply chain including planning, ordering, and fulfillment, ideally within the context of a studio or another media and entertainment organization.
    • Comfortable with common AWS products and architecture.
    • Ability to comprehend and interpret technical standards and specifications.If you are passionate about shaping the future of studio workflows and thrive in a collaborative, dynamic environment, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in revolutionizing the way we create and innovate in the studio space.About The Walt Disney Studios:For over 95 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built. Today it brings quality movies, episodic storytelling, music, and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. The Walt Disney Studios encompasses a collection of respected film studios, including Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight Pictures. It is also home to Disney Theatrical Productions, producer of world-class stage shows.About The Walt Disney Company:The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters, and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.This position is with Walt Disney Pictures, which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Studios.Walt Disney Pictures is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.Disability Accommodation For Employment ApplicationsThe Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
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