Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product \& Technology
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product \& Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale \& Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Content Platforms \& Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product \& Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Product Manager to collaborate with multiple business end-users, third-party vendor, software engineering team members, and other Product professionals. The Product Manager will spend their time on the custom development for features SaaS application with the Disney Music Group (DMG) technological eco-system. This role will work to refine designs, properly scope, and document epic/feature/user stories in an Agile working environment, as well as work with our SaaS vendors to present findings, and work with team members and stakeholders towards solutions.
Responsibilities:
Serve as a Product Manager for the Repertoire Management product team delivering products that solve problems through web interfaces to deliver a new, innovative integrated service to our business users.
Facilitate requirement sessions with stakeholders, properly prioritize features and creates comprehensive requirements for delivery team.
Drive consensus among stakeholders with conflicting needs.
Document epics, features, and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
Use Agile best practices, as well as pragmatic ingenuity, to build requirements and stories with the primary goal of consistent incremental delivery of MVP and multi-phased product solutions.
Work with multiple stakeholders – engineers, other product owners to create, iterate, maintain and communicate product roadmaps.
Collaborate and coordinate across the music portfolio of products to drive and solve any dependencies (inter or intra)
Lead user-acceptance testing for the Product Team and guide select business users during their turn of user-acceptance testing.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
5+ years of experience
Effective Communication - including extensive experience w/ application end users
Ability to solve problems - identifying multiple relevant scenarios
Critical thinking \& analytical thinking
Process modeling knowledge (+ documentation)
Preferred Qualifications
Over 5 years of experience in Product Management
Knowledge of phases of product development – concept, design, development, QA and UAT
Must be an expert in use case analysis, workflows and process mapping
Excellent communication skills and great listener
Solid technical background in modern database and system architecture
Working understanding of Agile and Kanban methodologies
Entertainment domain and enterprise architecture experience are a plus
Strong documentation skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PPT, Visio, Google Suite, LucidChart, etc.)
SQL skills is a plus
Master’s degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Business Administration or related fields
Experience working with various SMEs across various workflows
Experience working with SaaS vendors
Experience with Jira, Confluence or similar work management tool is a plus
Experience in Visualization tools (e.g. Tableau) is a plus
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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 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..