Hybrid Senior Product Manager – AI

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior Product Manager – AI
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $159,500 - $213,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Glendale, United States

About the role

• Product Manager managing AI/ML tools enhancing metadata and automating media workflows at Disney. Collaborating across teams to build high-value product capabilities for the media business.

Responsibilities

• Own product management for distinct Product/Platform capabilities in the ML Platform domain
• Influences the product strategy/roadmap and communicates to business partners and senior leadership around initiatives
• Utilize modern product discovery methods to gain a deep understanding of the problem space and develop solutions leveraging those insights
• Establish and evangelize product strategies that align with the mission of our organization, create value for the business, and delight users
• Collaborate with business partners and cross-functional teams to identify and clearly define business requirements
• Align business partners and cross-functional teams on product vision and strategy
• Elicit, analyze, document, and organize platform requirements into a clear, concise, and actionable product backlog that delivers prioritized incremental business value throughout its lifecycle.
• Partner and coordinate with peer Product Managers, Architecture, Engineering, QA, and Program Management to deliver strategic technical solutions.
• Support User Acceptance Testing, defining and executing product release strategies with end users, technology leads, and fellow product managers.
• Solve complex problems, taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
• Exhibit natural and intuitive user empathy
• Make thoughtful, well documented assumptions
• Assist in process alignment and standardization
• Define and align Product Roadmaps, clearly communicating the connection between vision, strategy, objectives, and roadmap
• Key participant of daily scrum meetings, planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Lead Retrospectives, as needed
• Define User Acceptance Test (UAT) Scripts development
• Own User Acceptance Testing (UAT), working in collaboration with Operations & Change Management
• Coordinate major product releases
• Own system processes, user guides, and training materials on product features where needed
• Collaborate, partner and coordinate with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, QA, and product leadership) to streamline product features and enhance business processes
• Partner with engineering and program managers to implement solutions aligned with the product strategy and Content Platforms strategic objectives
• Mentor junior product managers

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience or military service
• 7+ years' related experience
• Extensive experience building and launching products that meet business needs and delight customers
• Extensive experience collaborating effectively across multiple business areas, such as engineering, design, and marketing
• Demonstrated ability to offer creative, quality solutions to complex issues in the digital space
• Demonstrated ability to drive successful execution through collaboration and product evangelization
• Ability to formulate and communicate a compelling vision and motivate collaborators
• Deep understanding of how to leverage technology to create innovative solutions

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
• full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits