Sr Product Manager I, AI

Job ID 10106162 Location Santa Monica, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / New York, New York, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Dec. 06, 2024

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Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DE&E) Ad Platforms is responsible for delivering global adverting technology solutions for Disney's Linear and Addressable channels, brands, and streaming services. With unmatched scale, premium content, and innovative capabilities, DE&E Ad Platforms is a market leader in advertising. We build and maintain proprietary technology solutions supporting the Quote-To-Cash (Q2C) Advertising Sales workflows, ranging from CRM, Planning, Pricing, Order Management, Forecasting, and Billing as well as all the integrations internal and external that come with evolving and maintaining a best-in-class video advertising business.

As a Senior Product Manager within the Ad Platform technology team at DE&E, you will be a part of the team defining Addressable and Cross Media advertising. This is a highly dynamic environment that requires insight into content availability, user engagement, custom ad experiences, and advertiser driven constraints. You will be responsible for contributing to the product strategy, defining business and functional requirements consumable for engineering, and driving execution to establish the platform's future. The right person for this role can identify business value, solve complex problems, concisely articulate solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders and ultimately drive results. If you are someone who can drive strategy, create innovative ad tech solutions, and brings a passion for building the future of advertising technology, this is a great role for you.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the definition of the product vision, strategy, and delivery plan for Disney’s Addressable forecasting product suite. The forecasting suite powers our addressable advertising business for video and display ads across both web and streaming platforms.
Apply AI principles to improve forecasting accuracy and usability of the forecasting product to provide strategic guidance to business stakeholders
Generate product requirements and documentation consumable for engineering teams to configure and develop against
Responsible for management and health of the product backlog, ensuring concise requirements definition, organization, and prioritization.
Drive alignment to a common product vision across a diverse set of stakeholders including Product, Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Finance/Accounting
Set and communicate clear priorities for assigned products based on strategic goals, market conditions, and customer requirements, and regularly communicate product status to relevant stakeholders.
Establish launch and growth strategies and plans for our ad support offerings across the globe.
Collaborate with Product Management peers to ensure Product Strategy and requirements align with other Sales Channels including Programmatic and Self Service.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or work equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in product management, preferably in video & advertising technology
Extensive knowledge of forecasting tools, time-series prediction methods, regression models, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
Excellent requirements & solution design documentation, presentation and communication skills
Strong analytical skills and passionate about answering questions with data and a desire to understand how things work
Maintains a deep empathy for our users, and wants to creatively solve problems with a viewer-first mentality
Experience fostering critical partnership by collaborating with product managers, ad sales and operational teams to drive delivery against roadmap priorities.
Experience shipping multiple products in an agile software development environment

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica is $138,900 - $186,200 per year, in San Francisco is $152,100 - $203,900, and in New York and Seattle is $145,400 - $195,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.

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About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

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 that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. 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 Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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