Sr Product Manager

Product Manager/Product Owner Tech

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Product Manager/Product Owner Tech to lead the delivery and ongoing evolution of the Studio and Production Office applications that support The Walt Disney Studios. This role elevates traditional technical business analysis into an AI-empowered, strategic product position, leveraging current and emerging technologies to drive meaningful improvements in production office workflows.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in production workflow and technology, creating solutions that return valuable time to the creative process. This role blends business analysis, product management, AI fluency, and stakeholder partnership to ensure technical solutions are strategically aligned, user-focused, and positioned for future growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with business clients or other product teams within the organization to gather requirements, define use cases, and translate needs into actionable acceptance criteria and prototypes.
• In close partnership with leadership and business stakeholders, develop and execute the product vision and roadmap across internal applications, customized Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) options, and licensed SaaS solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility.
• Using AI-assisted coding tools, build and deliver high-quality solutions on time and within scope. Establish and evolve new AI-enabled workflows, including integration of LLM-powered tools and agents.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and prioritization activities. Define, groom, and accept user stories that translate stakeholder requests into engineering work.
• Author and maintain product documentation, data flow and UML diagrams, and other technical artifacts to support development and stakeholder understanding, using context files, rules, and blueprints where possible.
• Analyze and interpret data to support decision-making at the studio, production and individual contributor levels.
• Partner with infrastructure and data engineering teams to support integration with studio data platforms.
• Monitor product KPIs and user feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Highlight all successes, opportunities, and risks in executive-level communications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in film production, computer science, information systems, software, electrical engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in product ownership within software development environments.
• 5+ years of experience using Agile Scrum methodology. Proven track record managing technical application delivery in an Agile setting.
• 5+ years in a Production or Studio environment.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate prototyping and to build, test, deploy, and maintain applications.
• Exceptional analytical thinking and strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with data platforms.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on knowledge of the film production lifecycle.
• Experience managing projects that leverage cross-functional teams in an enterprise environment.
• Experience developing or managing agents; creating agentic workflows.
• Experience creating dashboards, reports, and providing business insights via analytics.
• Certified Agile Product Owner is a plus.
• Experience using code repository version control and collaboration tools (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $141,900 to $190,300 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's 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.

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.

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