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Job Summary:

We seek an enthusiastic and experienced product manager to help lead our efforts to create a world-class media supply chain. Reporting to the Senior Director, Supply Chain & Content, and part of the rapidly growing Platform Product team, the job location is Los Angeles.

The supply chain is responsible for receiving and ingesting content from various sources and efficiently packaging and publishing it to support the highest quality user experience across a variety of consumption platforms and environments. While continuously driving and improving execution of this core mission, you will work closely with counterparts in engineering and product management, as well as with executive teams to ensure the product fulfills business, technical, and consumer priorities.

You manage a team of product managers responsible for specific facets of the ecosystem and will identify resource needs while digging in yourself. You and your team will have primary roles in defining and driving the supply chain product roadmap.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical, resourceful, team oriented, and will have an ability to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. You will have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment. The ideal candidate makes data-driven decisions, obsesses about the customer, forms strong yet loosely held opinions, and can build trust with all areas of the business. We value passionate product leadership that drives with discipline and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with stakeholders to establish and identify product goals and define product roadmap and KPIs
  • Successfully achieve product objectives, managing through challenges
  • Partner with Disney Streaming Services engineering teams to identify new product and process opportunities to drive the best possible media experience for viewers, facilitated by an efficient, visible, and capable supply chain.
  • Take a data driven approach to constantly improve media products - devise measurement and reporting frameworks and processes to communicate status to neighbors and stakeholders, as appropriate to each
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to translate product requirements into actionable stories using an Agile product development process

Basic Qualifications:

  • You have 5-7 years experience in product management within video streaming or related industries
  • You have a strong high-level technical understanding of media supply chain components
  • You demonstrate strong strategic aptitude, clear thinking and communicating, and great decision making
  • You have an obsession with making customers happy, and strong opinions about good customer experience
  • You have a demonstrated ability to use data to drive decisions and back up assumptions and recommendations
  • You have a strong attention to detail, yet with the ability to take a step back and understand the bigger picture
  • You’ve demonstrated successful experience building and executing product roadmaps aligned with business requirements and technology capabilities in global businesses
  • You have excellent written and oral communication skills
  • You’re scrappy and resourceful, with no fear of getting your hands dirty and an impulse to be the first to tackle any challenge.
  • You’ve demonstrated ability to work with engineering teams to discuss technical concepts, make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks, and evaluate new ideas
  • You know when to escalate issues expediently and accurately when blockers arise

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A technical background in media
  • Strategic insight into the current video streaming landscape and an understanding of current trends
  • Direct product management experience in one or more aspects of live and/or VOD media supply chain or related products

About Disney Streaming Services:

Disney Streaming Services is responsible for developing and operating The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer video businesses globally, including the ESPN+ premium sports streaming service; the upcoming Disney subscription video service; and BAMTECH Media, a global leader in direct-to-consumer video streaming products and solutions. Our core mission is to deliver global audiences the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location. We serve consumers by bringing the world’s most beloved characters, timeless stories, legendary athletes, and epic sporting events to global audiences through best-in-class direct-to-consumer video services. We strive daily to imaginatively challenge convention with innovative technology that gives consumers the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location.

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 with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. 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 Disney Streaming Services LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Disney Streaming Services.

Disney Streaming Services LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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