Hybrid Senior Product Manager – Content Viewership Data

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior Product Manager – Content Viewership Data
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $141,900 - $190,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Glendale, United States

About the role

• Senior Product Manager for Disney’s Product Management Team managing Content Data products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product roadmaps and insights across distribution channels.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of the application/use of Content Data insights and elicit requirements from Data Analysts and Business leaders, transforming these insights into Product roadmaps with executable projects.
• Create and manage core product documentation including Business Case Proposals, Data Flow diagrams, Data Dictionaries, Build vs Buy Recommendations, User Stories, UAT preparedness etc.
• Manage day-to-day Product Management activities related to multiple scrum teams, including backlog refinement, prioritization of short term/long term business needs, product/feature launch communications, user onboarding and training.
• Partner with a whole range of teams within the Data organization (Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Quality & Governance, Program Management) to deliver high impact, cost effective Data solutions.
• Identify risks, resolve key blockers, and establish appropriate resolution paths across the organization with inter-dependent roadmaps and priorities.
• Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver.
• Champion a collaborative work environment that cultivates shared understanding, transparency, autonomy, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Work with minimal oversight /guidance in a large matrixed organization with complex tech & data ecosystems; take initiative to simplify and articulate trade-off decisions to business and technical leadership.
• Drive towards delivery of projects. When specifics are unknown, be resourceful identifying partners and getting information needed. Take initiative to unblock and escalate as needed to move projects forward.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of product management experience with strong focus on building and delivering successful data products, services and capabilities
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required, such as Engineering, Math, Science, Economics, etc.
• Strong foundational understanding of Big Data ecosystems to make trade-off decisions while developing end to end solutions on Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Data tech stack.
• Experience balancing new product development with maintaining day-to-day data reporting operations in a very large scale enterprise set up
• Experience utilizing both qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis techniques and familiarity with common data science models and approaches to problem-solving.
• Generally: the ability to plan for what analysts and data scientists need to deliver.
• Planning acumen and proven ability to break down work, define an MVP, as well as subsequent iterations and track feature adoption to inform roadmap development.
• Experience demonstrating leadership, self-motivation, accountability with strong technical, strategic and problem-solving skills to drive change in a large matrix organization.

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, dependent on the level and position offered