Join Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology’s Data Platform organization and help evolve a centralized source of truth that powers identity, device, and enterprise-wide customer data integration. This onsite role in Santa Monica, CA pairs product leadership with scalable, compliant data products that support analytics and downstream activation across the business.
In this Senior Product Manager position, you will set product vision and roadmap, guide cross-platform experiences for data activation, and modernize legacy customer data pipelines. The scope includes working with partner teams, vendors, and governance stakeholders to ensure data products are highly available, compliant, and built to scale.
What you’ll do
- Own and define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning delivery with business goals and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Data Architecture, Privacy, Governance, and business partners to build scalable, compliant, highly available data products.
- Manage relationships and technical integrations with third-party identity matching and data enrichment vendors to enhance customer demographic profiles.
- Own the long-term strategy and repeatable processes for onboarding new business units’ customer data into the centralized platform for enrichment and activation.
- Oversee planning and integration across upstream and downstream partners to support seamless data flow for timely, informed decision-making.
- Enable data activation by ensuring customer data is accessible for analytics, machine learning, data science, marketing, and other use cases.
- Lead stakeholder engagement by prioritizing intake requests, defining requirements, and ensuring timely, compliant data delivery.
- Develop and maintain clear product documentation, including product briefs, roadmaps, and success metrics.
- Drive feature awareness through timely communications and targeted presentations that highlight launches and business impact.
- Identify and mitigate risks, addressing blockers and dependencies across teams.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s Degree required; an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Economics, or a related field is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in data product management, platform development, data engineering, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience working with third-party identity resolution and data enrichment vendors (for example: Acxiom, Transunion, Experian) for customer data unification.
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional engineering efforts, complex enterprise data migrations, and vendor relationships.
- Familiarity with identity resolution, authentication flows, device metadata management, and third-party enrichment pipelines.
- Ability to translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and scalable, high-impact solutions.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience measuring success via data-driven insights.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted productivity tools such as Gemini, Claude, Cursor to accelerate development, documentation, and data analysis.
Additional context
Salary range: USD 141,900 - 199,400 per year. This role is onsite.
Technologies: Gemini, Claude, Cursor, Acxiom, Transunion, Experian, Druid, Kafka, Snowflake, Redshift, star schema, OLAP, AI/ML.
Preferred qualifications: Master’s degree; experience with video streaming, OTT, and subscription-based services; experience with data ingestion APIs, warehouse infrastructure, and data sharing technologies; experience applying AI/ML for identity resolution, data enrichment, or customer segmentation; experience leading product strategy for household-level identity resolution (linking related individuals, devices, and accounts into unified household groupings for suppression, attribution, and personalization use cases); familiarity with big data storage, processing technologies, and modeling techniques (Druid, Kafka, Snowflake, Redshift, star schema, OLAP, etc.).
