Staff Product Manager, Tech Solutions

Own product outcomes for Walt Disney Pictures’ Manufacturing technology, guiding development and rollout of DCP and IMF mastering platforms.

Responsibilities

• Recommend product strategy by gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements
• Align requirements with the Senior Manager’s vision; partner closely with engineering and UI/UX to meet metrics and goals
• Ensure product plans and delivery support organizational strategy and business goals
• Apply deep expertise in digital cinema and home mastering to shape roadmaps and product strategy
• Own end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for assigned platforms, aligned to the Senior Manager’s direction
• Coordinate business partners and cross-functional teams around product vision, priorities, and success measures
• Translate business objectives into actionable product initiatives tied to value and impact
• Use modern product discovery to understand user needs and validate solutions
• Manage external vendor and partner engagements where applicable
• Build trusted relationships across domains to drive alignment and delivery
• Work with engineering, media operations, and localization teams to deliver reliable, automated, standards-compliant mastering tools
• Define and track KPIs used for product management and executive leadership
• Champion automation and efficiency initiatives to reduce manual work and accelerate delivery
• Monitor emerging technologies and trends to provide well-reasoned product recommendations
• Create and deliver high-quality presentations to diverse audiences to influence stakeholders
• Own intake of product requests by evaluating fit with strategy and business value
• Define detailed requirements, feature definitions, and implementation plans including scope, assumptions, and success criteria
• Refine priorities based on outcomes, dependencies, and organizational goals
• Analyze current and future-state business processes to inform product design
• Lead user and stakeholder discovery to guide functional and platform decisions
• Drive development and implementation of Manufacturing platforms through influence with other teams and product managers
• Partner with engineering and design teams to ensure alignment with product vision and long-term platform strategy
• Participate in software selection activities when applicable
• Contribute to estimation and planning for complex, scalable projects, including budget considerations
• Drive delivery of high-quality solutions through close collaboration with development teams
• Own UAT strategy, acceptance criteria, and release readiness for major product launches
• Partner with engineering and operations to triage defects and ensure quality standards prior to release
• Provide product-level oversight for production issues, identifying root causes and prioritizing durable fixes
• Support change management to ensure successful adoption
• Ensure solutions are usable, well-adopted, and aligned with business workflows
• Use business challenges to recommend best practices to improve products, processes, and services
• Recommend delivery specification updates and automations to handle exceptions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent years of professional experience
• 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager for media supply chain, mastering, or distribution platforms
• Established depth in digital cinema technology, including familiarity with DCP, IMF, CPL/PKL structures, essence encryption, and KDM workflows
• Working knowledge of SaaS architectures, cloud media storage (AWS S3), and high-throughput file transfer technologies (Aspera, S3 Transfers)
• Experience leading others to solve complex problems using analytical judgement to identify innovative solutions
• Strong ability to evaluate trade-offs across user value, technical constraints, and business impact
• Experience driving complex features, integrations, or cross-system solutions
• Excellent cross-functional communication to bridge engineering and post-production teams
• Ability to manage multiple products simultaneously and prioritize in a dynamic environment
• Strong ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement mindset
• Master’s degree in a related technical field
• Evidence of data-driven decision making
• Prior experience in a studio, post-production, or distribution technology environment
• Knowledge of media asset management systems, transcoding workflows, and metadata validation tools
• Experience with localization, versioning, and territory-specific mastering at scale
• Exceptional written and verbal communication with proven ability to influence at the executive level
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Technology

• DCP
• IMF
• CPL/PKL structures
• essence encryption
• KDM workflows
• SaaS architectures
• AWS S3
• Aspera
• S3 Transfers
• DCP mastering platforms
• IMF mastering platforms

Role overview

• Define product vision, align stakeholders, and deliver high-impact solutions across apps and platforms
• Responsible for standards, planning discipline, and delivery quality across the Manufacturing portfolio
• Own delivery accountability and provide functional leadership expectations for the team without direct reports
• Partner with Studio Operations, engineering, design, and support teams to deliver measurable value, scale effectively, and support long-term business strategy

Location

• Glendale, CA (onsite)

Compensation

• USD 158,100 - 211,900 per year

Pay transparency

• Hiring range for Glendale, CA: $158,100.00 to $211,900.00 per year
• Base pay offered may consider internal equity and may vary by geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided, in addition to medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on level and position