Sr Product Mgr I

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is hiring a Senior Product Manager I for the Ad Platform technology team in Santa Monica, CA (onsite). In this role, you will focus on maximizing insight velocity through experimentation, using learnings to improve the ad experience and drive performance outcomes and revenue goals.

You will own key elements of the experimentation lifecycle, working across product, engineering, data, and business partners to launch experiments, interpret results, and communicate clear recommendations that help guide prioritization and roadmap decisions.

What you’ll do

• Advance and refine the ad experience and ad optimization vision by exploring new capabilities through experimentation and aligning work to performance objectives.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering partners to plan and prioritize a viewer and supply optimization roadmap by connecting experimentation learnings to longer-term strategy.
• Own end-to-end experiment launches, from hypothesis definition through results interpretation and presentation.
• Work with Data Science and Analytics to translate business questions into testable experiment designs and clear evaluation plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution with Engineering, Operations, and Business to support on-time, high-quality experiment launches.
• Synthesize experiment results into narratives and recommendations for product and business leaders, including executive-level readouts.
• Help operationalize experimentation practices, documentation, and tooling to improve velocity and clarity across the organization.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve lever efficiency, user experience, and monetization outcomes through experimentation.
• Influence prioritization and decision-making across “fleets” by framing clear, data-backed recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in data-driven, experimentation-heavy environments, plus a Bachelors degree in a related field of study.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason about tradeoffs using quantitative and qualitative inputs.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics teams.
• Hands-on experience across the experiment lifecycle, including sequencing strategy, treatment and control definitions, communicating results, production rollout, and holdout group strategy.
• Experience using AI tools to conduct and validate quantitative analysis.
• Comfort setting north star KPIs, assessing the authenticity of analyses, and stress-testing data narratives to determine effective next steps.
• Execution-focused mindset with strong follow-through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex results to non-technical audiences.

Tools and technologies

• AI tools
• SQL

Preferred qualifications

• Experience launching and optimizing machine learning models.
• Experience in video advertising, especially balancing advertising with user experience.
• Prior experience in growth or similar work assessing user experience changes in relation to incremental customer lifetime value.
• Working proficiency in SQL.

Pay transparency

• The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $141,900 - $190,300 per year.
• Base pay actually offered will consider internal equity and may vary by candidate geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.
• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.