Sr Mgr Product Management

Job Posting Title:

Sr Mgr Product Management

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Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys 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 Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we thinkyoudlove working here:

Building the future of Disneys media:Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach Scale & Impact:More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation:We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industrynorms andsolve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Management is responsible for driving the overall user experience feature strategies and concepts and engagement paradigms for Disney Entertainment & ESPNs 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 ourplatform ensures that every piece of entertainment sports and news content reaches audiences reliably securely andinthe highest possible quality.

We are a team of technologists and product leaders whoobsessaboutdelivering seamless world-class mediaexperiences atglobalscale. We partner closely with engineering operations and business teams to ensure our media foundation not only supports todays streaming needs but alsoanticipatesthose of the future.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Manager of Product Management to lead the Live and Linear Media Pipeline team accountable for the platform capabilities powering Disneys live sports and entertainment lineardMVPDservice DVR FAST channel playout content marking and decoration in-stream ad insertion and the operational tooling behind it all.

Live and linearisamong the most operationally complexhighest-stakeswork on the platform. This leader sets vision and direction for the team builds the engineering partnerships that make execution possible and develops their PMs into a high-performing unit that owns the full live content journey.

Strong candidates bring experience leading product teams in live media or technically complex platform environments genuine investment in PM craft and team development and the range tooperatecredibly from engineering deep dives to executive briefings.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Set and own product vision strategy and OKRs across the Live and Linear Media Pipeline portfolio aligned to broader Media Platform and enterpriseobjectives.

• Build compelling business cases for Live and Linear Pipeline investments;identifyemerging 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 domainestablishingjoint roadmap and strategycadencesand driving alignment across live pipeline domains.

• Collaborate with VOD Pipeline Content Metadata and Distribution and Playback PMs tomaintaincoherent 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;identifywhere AI and automation can improve reliability reduce operational burden or unlock new capabilities.

Required Education Experience/Skills/Training:

• 10 years of experience in product management ora relateddiscipline.

• Experience leading and developing PM teams withdemonstratedinvestment in coaching and raising the standard of product thinking.

• Experience owning product strategy across a complex multi-domainplatformor media technology environment with accountability for measurable outcomes.

• Strong communicationskills with the ability to frame portfolio strategy for executive audiences and align cross-functional stakeholders.

• Proven ability tooperateacross organizational boundaries and unblock teams in ambiguous situations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with live media workflows: signal acquisition live event orchestration linear playoutdMVPDand 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.

Required Education

• Bachelors degree in a relevant fieldrequired

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The hiring range for this position in New York NY is $197400 to $264700 per year and in Morrisville NC is $179500 to $240600 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates geographic region job-related knowledge skills and experience among other factors. 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Product Management

Job Posting Primary Business:

PM - Platform Product

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Management Tech

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

New York NY USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - NC - 3005 Carrington Mill Blvd

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