Sr Product Manager, Data Solutions & Instrumentation

Job Description

Sr Product Manager I, Data Solutions & Instrumentation (ESPN Fantasy)

Disney Entertainment's mission is to delight consumers around the world with the entertainment and sports content they want most, with more choice, personalization, and convenience than ever before.

Comprised of Disney's International media businesses and the Company's streaming and linear services, 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 vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

The global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists and more has a wide array of responsibilities and works with groups and leaders across The Walt Disney Company to consistently evolve and reimagine the technological and media touchpoints that fans and families around the world have with Disney's unmatched content and characters.

The Data Solutions & Instrumentation (DSI) team within the Product Management organization is seeking a polished & experienced Sr Product Manager to oversee the implementation of a mature set of measurement solutions within the Sports portfolio of digital products. In this role you'll partner with our Sports Product team and global set of analytics stakeholders to ensure the data we're collecting reflects the evolving set of reporting needs and provides insight into our fan's user-journey. This role will be predominantly focused on ensuring ESPNs portfolio of Fantasy products – inclusive of the ESPN Fantasy & ESPN Tournament Challenge mobile applications & the various ESPN Fantasy web experiences – have extensive and stable instrumentation coverage. While the DSI team takes a roadmap driven product-oriented approach to supporting our measurement solutions, roles within this team are extremely technical as you partner with our Consumer Software Engineering (CSE) teams to implement requirements and support our Quality Assurance teams through the validation process. The health, stability & evolution of the implementation of Adobe Analytics, Comscore, Nielsen and others is critical to the ESPN business and this role within the DSI team is vital to that success.
• Gather measurement requirements from a broad range of cross-functional stakeholders (ESPN Research, Sports Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Ad Sales, Editorial & more), translate them into technical solution design artifacts & partner with our Consumer Software Engineering (CSE) team on the implementation across ESPNs portfolio of Fantasy products.
• Perform the Administrator role within Adobe Analytics, inclusive of Report Suite architecture, Processing Rule maintenance, Dimension management, Marketing Channel oversight & all components of Analysis Workspace Project report development.
• Develop and maintain a set of world-class documentation that serves the needs of our technical implementation partners, dependent downstream teams, and business stakeholders.
• Triage and provide solutions for a consistent flow of questions, requests & challenges from the global stakeholder community.
• Build strong relationships with our Account Managers and Solution Architects at Adobe, Comscore & Nielsen to ensure consistently smooth implementation certification processes and tight alignment on their evolving solutions & SDKs.
• Drive schema and operational consistency across the DSI team beyond the core Sports Product vertical you'll support, gaining exposure to Disney+, Hulu, ABC, ABC News, Marvel, National Geographic & more.

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required
• Minimum of 5 years of product management experience or similar role architecting enterprise digital measurement solutions or customer data platforms.
• Proven track record partnering with Engineering teams to implement digital measurement solutions.
• Polished communicator comfortable translating stakeholder needs into well-documented technical specifications.
• Ability to review analytics implementation accuracy using Charles, Fiddler, or similar HTTP debugging proxy.
• Strong understanding of Comscore (Multi-Platform Video Measurement, Total Digital, etc.) or Nielsen's (Digital Content Ratings, Digital in TV Ratings, Nielsen ONE, etc.) digital measurement products.
• Expert handle on the rapidly evolving product analytics space.
• Demonstrable analytical & problem-solving skills with ability to balance various priorities.
• High-level of comfort building a roadmap and working within an agile, Jira-driven operating model

Preferred Qualifications
• Advanced degree in computer science, information systems, software, or data science
• Experience in Product, Engineering or Solutions Architecture at industry leading product analytics or customer data platform organization

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA and Bristol, CT is $136,038 to $182,490 per year, in San Francisco it is $148,994 to $199,870 and in NYC and Seattle is $142,516 to $191,180 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. 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.

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA and Bristol, CT is $136,038 to $182,490 per year, in San Francisco it is $148,994 to $199,870 and in NYC and Seattle is $142,516 to $191,180 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. 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.

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.

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, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. 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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d56o67-3-133-147-252-42 in your application.