Senior Product Manager

Job Description

Disney+ is the Disney-branded streaming service featuring an incomparable collection of content from its brands and franchises recognized and respected all over the world including Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Disney, and NatGeo. Our combined Hulu and Disney team is looking for hardworking team players, who will thrive upon the legacy of Disney and Hulu, embrace unconventional thinking, and who are passionate about contributing to The Walt Disney Company's direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience.

The Developer Platform Engineering (DPE) department is a horizontal service team providing both tools and guidance across the Disney Streaming organization for operations in AWS. DPE strives to act as a productivity multiplier for applications teams, working closely with them to drive their adoption of AWS services and offering a ''cloud-native'' perspective on application architecture, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.
The DPE Product Team is based out of the Hulu office in Santa Monica. As a Senior Product Manager on the DPE Product Team you will drive the roadmap definition of our developer platform. You have demonstrated skills working both inside and outside the department to coordinate highly technical teams to deliver safe, and simple workflows for our developer community, and a reliable, highly available platform at scale for tens of millions of users.

Responsibilities:
• Work closely with the engineering managers and architects of the Developer Platform Engineering teams to define product goals and requirements
• Engage with our stakeholders - the broader engineering community - build strong relationships and to understand their current and future needs
• Develop detailed product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success measures
• Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key blockers, and establish appropriate resolution paths
• Champion a collaborative work environment that cultivates shared understanding, transparency, autonomy, innovation, and continuous learning

Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum 5 years experience building products in the developer tooling space
• Minimum 3 years working with a team of engineers, designers and other cross-functional team, focused on outcome-based deliverables in the engagement area.
• Comfortable in a fast changing environment, with frequently changing demands, building and managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and circumstances.
• You should have a bias for action, the propensity to break down work, identify the highest value items, and iteratively deliver valuable improvements
• Effective leadership capabilities, and ability to motivate a team.
• Detailed knowledge of Agile development practices and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact features at scale
• Ability to communicate with both technical and business experts.

Preferred Qualifications:
• An understanding of the fundamentals of cloud migrations and cloud ecosystems and the trade-offs between managed and unmanaged services
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (CS, CE, EE), business, or equivalent experience
• Experience with media technology in the live or on-demand streaming space
• Background managing platforms and tooling for internal customers
• Product or Project Management certification is a plus, but not required

About Disney Streaming:

Comprised of the Company's international business units and various direct-to-consumer streaming services, Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) aligns technology, media distribution and advertising sales into a single business segment to create and deliver personalized entertainment experiences to consumers around the world.

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 Technology LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Disney Streaming.

Disney Streaming Technology 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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