Sr Product Manager I

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Sr Product Manager I

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Job Description:

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology were reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the worlds most beloved stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether thats evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and efficiency or delivering Disneys unmatched entertainment and sports content every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think youd love working here:

• Building the future of Disneys media: We are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day from Disney and Hulu to ABC News and Entertainment to ESPN and much more.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports entertainment & news.

About the Role

The Data Platform organization in Disney Entertainment ESPN Product & Technology is looking for a Senior Product Manager to own and evolve our centralized source of truth for identity device and enterprise-wide customer data integration. This role is pivotal in ensuring seamless cross-platform user experiences accurate device and access intelligence and compliant data activation for analytics personalization and security.

As a key leader within the Data team you will define the vision strategy and roadmap. Your work will empower internal teams by managing a unified view of customers across multiple diverse business units this will power marketing activation analytics and more.

This role requires a strategic thinker with deep data expertise capable of translating ambiguous business needs into actionable product roadmaps while balancing scalability performance and privacy compliance. You will also lead the product strategy for modernizing legacy customer data pipelines. This includes migrating legacy systems to modern data-sharing architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and define the vision strategy and roadmap ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering Data Architecture Privacy Governance and Business Teams to build scalable compliant and highly available data products
• Manage relationships and technical integrations with third-party identity matching and data enrichment vendors to enhance customer demographic profiles.
• Define and own the long-term strategy and repeatable processes for onboarding new business units customer data into the centralized data platform for enrichment and activation.
• Oversee the management integration and planning of data processes with associated upstream and downstream partner teams ensuring seamless data flow to support timely and informed decision-making
• Help enable data activation by ensuring data is easily accessible for analytics machine learning data science marketing and other data use cases
• Oversee stakeholder engagement prioritizing intake requests defining requirements and ensuring timely compliant data delivery
• Develop and maintain clear product documentation including detailed product briefs roadmaps and success metrics
• Drive awareness and engagement by delivering timely communications and targeted presentations to highlight feature launches and their business impact.
• Identify and mitigate risks addressing key blockers and dependencies across teams

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree required. An undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering Math Economics or related discipline is a plus.
• 5 years of experience in data product management platform development data engineering or related fields
• Demonstrated experience working with third-party identity resolution and data enrichment vendors (e.g. Acxiom Transunion Experian) to support customer data unification
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional engineering teams complex enterprise data migrations and vendor relationships
• Familiarity with identity resolution authentication flows device metadata management and third-party data enrichment pipelines
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and deliver scalable high-impact data solutions
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to measure success through data-driven insights
• Proficiency with AI-assisted productivity tools (e.g. Gemini Claude Cursor) to accelerate development documentation and data analysis tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree preferred
• Shown experience in video streaming OTT and subscription based services
• Experience working with data ingestion APIs warehouse infrastructure and data sharing technologies
• Experience applying AI/ML techniques for identity resolution data enrichment or customer segmentation
• Demonstrated experience leading product strategy for household-level identity resolution linking related individuals devices and accounts into unified household groupings to power suppression attribution and personalization use cases across business units
• Familiarity with big data storage processing technologies and modeling techniques (Druid Kafka Snowflake Redshift star schema OLAP etc.)

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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica CA Glendale CA and Bristol CT is $141900 to $190300 per year and in New York NY is $148700 to $199400 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:

Commerce Data & Identity

Job Posting Primary Business:

CGI - Account Sharing Monetization

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Management Tech

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Santa Monica CA USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave USA - CT - ESPN Building 2 USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square

Date Posted:

Required Experience:

Senior IC