The Walt Disney Company

Manager, Growth Marketing Platforms - Audience

The Walt Disney Company$132K — $178K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in audience data set development and enhancement at a brand or agency
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
  • Expertise in Marketing and Advertising Technologies, including DMPs and CDPs
  • Deep understanding of identity resolution strategies and frameworks
  • Strong knowledge of global data privacy and compliance landscape
  • Experience in managing teams or direct reports in relevant functions
  • Familiarity with subscription business media use cases
  • Proficient in lifecycle marketing strategies

Responsibilities

  • Oversee workflows for distributing first-party audiences to marketing platforms
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on identity resolution and match rate optimization
  • Project manage critical audience initiatives across The Walt Disney Company
  • Audit and update audience setup for compliance with legal requirements
  • Identify new audience segmentation use cases in collaboration with stakeholders
  • Analyze audience and campaign performance data for improvement
  • Support A/B testing and incrementality studies for targeting validation
  • Facilitate rollout of large-scale audience initiatives to enhance targeting and attribution
  • Collaborate on audience overlap analyses with Ad Sales and Partnerships
  • Manage a team for audience request queue execution and troubleshooting

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours with occasional evening meetings
  • Emphasis on professional development opportunities
  • Supportive company culture focusing on collaboration
  • Access to Disney's extensive media and entertainment resources
  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical and retirement savings options
Full Job Description
Job Posting Title:
Manager, Growth Marketing Platforms - Audience

Req ID:


Job Description:

The Growth Marketing team is tasked with driving new subscriber acquisition & driving Disney Streaming's profitability business objectives for Disney+ and The Disney Bundle. The team is responsible for the planning, execution, and optimization of user acquisition and performance marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate has a passion for the digital media landscape and understands the intricacies and unique attributes of every step in the marketing funnel.

What You Will Do

This role will support how our global growth marketing team maximizes first-party data and audience strategies to drive subscriber growth and retention for our streaming business. In coordination with the Snr. Manager GMP, this person will collaborate cross-functionally with global data, product, paid media, regional, and privacy/legal teams to help enable audience activation, targeting, and measurement initiatives across markets.

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee and optimize the workflows that distribute first party audiences to our global marketing platforms utilizing our data management tools at scale


  • Serve as subject matter expert for the Growth Marketing team on identity resolution frameworks and match rate optimization across paid media channels (CTV, Social, Display, Affiliate)


  • Project manage and provide updates on critical audience initiatives spanning TWDC programs


  • Regularly audit and update our audience setup at the global and regional levels to adhere to legal and data governance requirements


  • Work closely with Growth Marketing & xLOB stakeholders to identify new audience segmentation use cases and coordinate with Data Product on requirements for paid media enablement and activation


  • Analyze audience and campaign performance data to identify opportunities for improved segmentation, reach, and activation efficiency


  • Support the Senior Manager on projects related to future-proofing the Disney+ paid media martech stack


  • Support A/B testing, incrementality studies, and other performance measurement techniques to validate and evolve targeting tactics against 1P audiences


  • Support the rollout of large scale audience initiatives that can be leveraged to improve audience targeting, frequency management, attribution, and media efficiency across subscriber households


  • Collaborate with Ad Sales and Partnership teams on audience overlap analyses and opportunities


  • Manage a team responsible for supporting the audience request queue, overseeing workload prioritization, resource allocation, and execution of audience builds, activations, and troubleshooting across paid media channels


Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years experience at a brand or agency developing, deploying, strategizing on and enhancing audience data sets & associated identity signals
  • Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience


  • Strong background in Marketing and Advertising Technologies including experience working with tag managers, DMPs, and CDPs (Liveramp, Hightouch, mParticle, Adobe, etc.)


  • Strong understanding of identity resolution strategies and frameworks, including the use of first-party identifiers (email, phone number, device IDs, ad ids) and third-party identifiers (RampIDs, ConnectedIDs, UUIDs) to improve cross-device/environment audience recognition, targeting, and measurement across paid media platforms


  • Substantial knowledge of the data privacy, legal, and compliance landscape globally - familiarity with Consent Management Platforms and how they plug into martech stacks


  • Familiarity in managing a team or direct reports within their job function


  • Familiarity with paid media use cases for a subscription business such as subscriber suppression, shared account engagement strategies, upsell opportunities, and reducing wasted media spend across multiple users within the same household


  • Familiarity with lifecycle marketing including engagement, retention, churn reduction, and winback strategies


  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to translate technical identity and audience concepts into actionable marketing strategies for non-technical stakeholders


  • Availability to work and attend meetings outside of normal business hours (5-10PM EST) at least once per week


  • Detailed oriented with proven success in process development and execution


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred
  • Experience working within an enterprise setting or large, matrixed organization preferred


The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $132,800 to $178,000 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.

Job Posting Segment:
DEMRKTG

Job Posting Primary Business:
Disney+ - Media

Primary Job Posting Category:
Marketing Technology - Studios

Employment Type:
Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
New York, NY, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:
2026-07-01

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows. Using the company's portfolio of brands to differentiate our content, services, and consumer products, Walt Disney seeks to develop creative, innovative, and profitable entertainment experiences and related products.

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Learn more about The Walt Disney Company
Size
190,000 employees
Market Cap
$155.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$4.9 billion
Founded
1923
5 Year Trend
+3.9%
Revenue
$60.7 billion
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