Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

10,001+ employees

Leading producers & providers of entertainment and information

Compensation Overview

$136.1k - $182.4kAnnually

+ Bonus + Long-term Incentive Units

Senior

Burbank, CA, USA

Hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA, is $136,100 to $182,400 per year.

Category
Product Management
Product
Required Skills
Agile
Data Science
Product Management
JIRA
SCRUM
Confluence
Information Architecture
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
  • 5+ year of product management experience, preferably in digital/mobile environment
  • Demonstrate strong product understanding and platform familiarity
  • Self-starter and can work independently under time constraints and meet deadlines
  • Demonstrate strong presentation and ability to clearly communicate goals, status, and issues
  • Demonstrate strong technical writing skills
  • Demonstrate ability to derive actionable insights or alternative solutions through research
  • Demonstrate ability to craft and validate problems
  • Efficiently support experimentation execution and analysis, such as proof of concepts
  • Demonstrate ability to define Product Roadmaps
  • Demonstrate understanding of business modeling and analysis vis structured cost/benefit analysis
  • Demonstrate understanding and ability to write and prioritize user stories
  • Demonstrate ability to adjust and pivot as business strategy and product priorities shifts
  • Experienced in leading and/or facilitating business workshops
  • Exhibits a clear understanding of development process, methodologies, and tools
  • Can provide informal guidance to junior team members
  • Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and experience in product management for Title and Metadata Management
  • Exhibits appreciation and experience in incorporating data science and analytics in holistic product solutions
  • Experience conducting business partner discussions to define functional requirements, with a progression in complexity
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills – able to distill information accurately and convey it (verbally and/or written) to business partners and internal technology teams
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating across functional teams
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability with impeccable follow-through
  • Strong prioritization and organization skills with experience juggling time-sensitive requests from multiple business partners
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and matrixed organization, executing on several initiatives concurrently while balancing competing priorities
  • MBA or Masters in related technical field preferred
  • Exposure or experience with Agile development tools, such as Jira and Confluence
  • Prior work experience in Title (IP) and Metadata Management
  • Knowledge of or experience in media & entertainment industry
  • Enthusiasm and interests in Disney brands
  • Understanding of media production workflows, digital video workflows, or consumer-facing video product features
  • Expertise in the entertainment industry (having worked in a studio, production company, agency, distributor)
  • Experience in metadata, master data and/or supply chain.
Responsibilities
  • 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
  • Exhibit natural and intuitive user empathy
  • Can clearly articulate product strategy and manage business partners expectations accordingly
  • Make thoughtful, well documented assumptions
  • Assist in process alignment and standardization
  • Own product management for a distinct Product/Platform
  • Support definition of Product Strategy
  • Define and align Product Roadmaps, clearly communicating the connection between vision, strategy, objectives, and roadmap
  • Own definition of cost/benefit analysis and prepare lean business case
  • Derive realistic product targets / KPIs (with help for complex products)
  • Active use of product frameworks and tools to document information in a structured way (user journey maps, flow, information architecture, etc.)
  • Lead business partner engagements to analyze the value proposition of business requests and provide alternative solutions, as needed to ensure we stay consistently focused on the product strategy
  • Manage maintenance and prioritization of product backlog, ensuring transparent, well aligned & justified prioritization within your area of responsibility
  • Guide team through selecting, crafting, and validating effective solutions for problems (with help for complex problems)
  • Slice solutions to a viable minimum product that effectively solve prioritized requirements
  • 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
  • Support any other activities / duties to help achieve business objectives
The Walt Disney Company

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