Hybrid Staff Product Manager, AI Platforms

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Staff Product Manager, AI Platforms
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $148,700 - $199,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Seattle, United States

About the role

• Staff Product Manager leading AI product strategy and vision at Disney. Guiding teams in technical product management for AI-powered platforms and capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and own AI product strategy and vision, balancing technical feasibility, business value, compliance, and responsible AI principles
• Performs market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features
• Translate machine learning, GenAI, and agentic system capabilities into clear product requirements, roadmaps, and MVPs
• Partner deeply with engineering and data science to guide model selection, feature engineering, evaluation criteria, and deployment strategies
• Drive data-informed decision-making using experimentation, model metrics, and customer signals
• Establish and own success metrics for AI products
• Lead iterative experimentation and continuous optimization
• Anticipate and manage AI-specific risks
• Serve as a translator between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Engage customers and partners to uncover unarticulated needs
• Champion platform thinking across AI services
• Influence organizational best practices for AI product delivery
• Experience operating within multi-cloud AI environments
• Comfort engaging at near-engineering depth

Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in technical product management.
• Minimum of 2 years of product management experience in building and launching AI products.
• Good understanding of the Generative AI, Agentic development process and ML model lifecycle.
• Able to define priorities based on the OKRs defined by leadership
• Ability to define product success KPIs measuring outcomes and drive business success.
• A minimum of 5 years cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure) preferred
• Proven experience setting strategic vision, large scale application/data deployments, managing software or data development lifecycles, and resolving issues that impact design, product success, or address future technologies
• Ability to work with large data sets for analysis and interpretation of business results
• Experienced in SCRUM/Lean Agile frameworks with an MVP/iterative approach
• Ability to influence, take calculated risks, make sound business decisions, and resolve concerns as needed
• Excellent interpersonal, business development, and communication skills (both written & verbal for both technical and non-technical audiences)
• Positive can-do partnership demeanor while working with cross-functional teams and business units
• Must be detail oriented, self-organized, and capable of simultaneously prioritizing multiple efforts
• Proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Senior and Executive Management
• Ability to resolve conflict
• Prioritizes work effectively, making tradeoffs as necessary
• Ability to synthesize robust and cost-effective technical solutions against customer requirements providing buy versus build decision making
• Must be detail oriented and self-organized/motivated
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast paced environment
• Models desired company cultural attributes and inclusive behaviors
• Experience using Azure DevOps for work item management
• Certification in one or more cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)
• Experience launching products built with AI frameworks.

Benefits

• 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.