Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization

Executive Director Of Product, Growth & Monetization

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.

About the Role

We are seeking an Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization to define and lead the product strategy for how we globally acquire, engage, retain, and monetize customers across multiple brands. This is a high impact, senior leadership role responsible for driving end-to-end product strategy and execution in a dynamic environment, spanning acquisition, plan tiering, upsells, account management, retention, and monetization.

This leader will manage and mentor a team of product managers, and shape the future of our growth engine, through a deep understanding of value creation and value capture. They will partner closely with other product teams, engineering, design, data science, marketing, and finance to deliver sustainable, scalable growth.

Responsibilities

· Define Strategy & Vision: Own the long-term growth and monetization strategy across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition to retention and revenue optimization.

· Drive Rapid Execution & Impact: Oversee product roadmaps and delivery, ensuring initiatives drive measurable business and customer impact in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.

· Lead & Grow Team: Build, coach, and scale a high-performing team of product managers, fostering a culture of deep consumer and business understanding, experimentation, learning, and results.

· Balance Value Creation & Capture: Develop innovative offerings that deliver customer value while driving sustainable revenue growth.

· Experimentation & Optimization: Establish a culture of A/B testing, data-driven learning, and rapid iteration across acquisition, conversion, and retention funnels.

· Ecosystem Thinking: Navigate complex ecosystems, understanding incentives and trade-offs across customer, business, and partner needs.

· Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with other product teams, marketing, engineering, design, data, finance, and business development to align on goals and execute effectively.

· Platform Mindset: Deeply understand and influence platform capabilities and technical constraints to scale growth and monetization initiatives globally.

Qualifications

· 12+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing PM teams at scale.

· Bachelor's degree

· Proven track record of delivering growth and monetization impact in a subscription, marketplace, or consumer platform business.

· Deep expertise in customer acquisition, plan tiering, upsell strategies, account management, retention, and monetization.

· Strong growth mindset with the ability to set ambitious goals, test hypotheses, and adapt strategies based on insights.

· Technical aptitude to partner closely with engineering and data teams on platform capabilities and system design.

· Experience considering ROI, financial tradeoffs, value creation, and value capture in product decisions.

· Experience in entertainment, media, or adjacent industries strongly preferred.

· Exceptional analytical, storytelling, and executive communication skills.

· Comfort operating in ambiguity and leading cross-functional alignment at the executive level.

Why Join Us

· Lead one of the most critical product portfolios driving the company's future.

· Shape the growth and monetization strategy at the intersection of entertainment and technology.

· Work with an impact-driven team that values bold thinking, experimentation, and customer obsession.