Sr. Product Manager

About the Team & Role:

The Enterprise Technology mission at Disney is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. We drive Disney's competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence!

You will be part of the Cloud & Data Transformation Engineering organization, that provides next-level cloud and data services to unleash digital magic for Disney. We use modern technologies, design patterns, culture, and organizational alignment to enable teams to seamlessly ship content, products, and magical experiences better, faster, safer, and happier.

As a Sr Product Engineer, you will define the product vision (lead with the why and think big!), Establishing a consistent customer rhythm of business, using data to find opportunities, and building a deep roadmap and backlogs that prioritizes the highest value for users. A servant leader mindset and someone who is both technically capable and highly adept at building strong partnerships that deliver critical organizational outcomes. Additionally, there will be responsibility for developing foundational services and capabilities that enable an integrated experience across the portfolio of our Cloud & Data Organization.

The ideal candidate is technically adept in software and data development lifecycles, Agile and MVP approaches, multi-cloud capabilities (AWS, Azure, Google), as well exemplary leadership and communication abilities (both verbal and written). This role requires you to engage customers of both technical and non-technical skillsets (e.g. Information Workers, Developers, and IT Admins).

Responsibilities:

• Understands technical customer requirements and can articulate them into technical build requirements

• Deep empathy for customer requirements - both the good and the bad.

• Willing to say no as appropriate when customer asks are not aligned with strategic direction

• Uses data to see opportunities and build hypotheses worthy of prioritization

• Correlates multiple data dimensions to identify patterns that can be transformed into build requirements

• Performs market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features for the relevant product line

• Defines strategy, vision, & prioritizes product roadmap

• Ensures business rhythm is established that corrals both customer sentiment feedback, as well as customer data that enables prioritization requests and enhancements for the product line

• Engages with customer and organizational leadership to deeply understand unarticulated needs, successes, and new opportunities; then conveys that information to the team in a manner that is traceable and useful.

• Uses data, strategic direction, and feedback loops, prioritizing high value outcomes first

• Uses an Agile framework, specifically with an MVP and iterative approach, partners and collaborates with engineering team to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered; communicates effectively to stakeholders

• Brings to bear techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency for the team while promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation

• Champions organization-wide processes and best practices related to ideation, delivery, prioritization, and customer engagement

• Productively challenges engineering design to ensure customer requirements will be fulfilled

• Uses a lifelong learning mentality, knowing the latest best practices and technologies

• Exercises good judgment when faced with risk, blockers, or tradeoffs

• Communicate expectations to partners, leaders, and customers, and optimally resets expectations as priorities or deliverables shift

• Effectively onboards customers and stakeholders to new releases and functionality

•  Plan and prioritize work with our Data Engineering team focused on multi-product, multi-cloud data ingestion, processing, billing and chargeback across the enterprise. 

• Automation and standardization focused, driving a streamlined approach across a diverse set of providers and data sets.

• Plan and prioritize work for data democracy, visualizations, and dashboards the enable our customers to consume their data with actionable insights that driver greater business outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

• A minimum of 2 years experience in a technical engineering role such as software, data or systems engineering.

• A minimum of 5 years experience in technical product or program management.

• A minimum of 5 years cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure)

• Certification in one or more cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)

• Proven experience setting strategic vision, large scale application/data deployments, managing software or data development lifecycles, and resolving issues that impact design, product success, or address future technologies

• Ability to work with large data sets for analysis and interpretation of business results

Nice To Haves:

• Experience using Azure DevOps for work item management

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA $129,806.00 to $174,130.00 per year and Burbank, CA $123,902.00 to $166,210.00 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.