The Walt Disney Company

Sr Product Mgr II

The Walt Disney Company$155K — $208K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product management experience, preferably in content platforms or media technology.
  • Expertise in building and scaling platform products, such as CMS or asset management systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to define product vision and align cross-functional teams to achieve goals.
  • Track record of delivering complex products that significantly improve performance and efficiency.
  • Strong analytical skills, using both qualitative insights and quantitative data effectively.
  • Excellent communication skills for articulating ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
  • Technical fluency with experience in agile environments and collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Comfort with navigating ambiguity and making impactful tradeoffs across multiple domains.
  • User-focused mindset passionate about enhancing content creation and publication experiences.
  • Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive a product strategy for media capabilities within ABC News CMS for digital publishing.
  • Establish success metrics for editorial efficiency, system performance, and reliability.
  • Own the long-term strategy for the media platform, incorporating future capabilities and AI optimizations.
  • Define the media object model for digital assets used in publishing.
  • Oversee media workflows in ABC News CMS, ensuring they meet editorial needs and are efficient.
  • Lead the unification of fragmented workflows into a cohesive, platform-driven strategy.
  • Partner with engineering, design, and editorial teams to deliver end-to-end media capabilities.
  • Translate complex strategies into actionable roadmaps, delivering impact in measurable phases.
  • Launch products with strong emphasis on coordination and clear communication.

Benefits

  • Full range of medical, financial, and other comprehensive benefits depending on position offered.
Full Job Description
Job Posting Title:
Sr Product Mgr II

Req ID:


Job Description:

Product Management is responsible for driving the overall user experience, feature strategies and concepts, and engagement paradigms for Disney Entertainment & ESPN's global portfolio of consumer-facing streaming and digital products - including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, Nat Geo, Marvel, and Star Wars.

About the Role

At The Walt Disney Company, we believe in the power of storytelling to inform, connect, and inspire. We're looking for a Senior Product Manager II to lead the evolution of the Media Platform within the ABC News CMS, which powers content creation and publishing to ABC News websites, mobile apps, and digital platforms.

In this role, you will own the media platform end-to-end - including asset models, ingestion pipelines, AI integrations and metadata systems - and shape how editors create, manage and publish media within the CMS, ensuring workflows are intuitive, scalable, and tightly integrated across authoring and downstream experiences.

This role is ideal for a product leader who thrives in complex, technical environments and brings strong product judgment to ambiguous problems - translating cross-system complexity into clear, scalable solutions and driving alignment across teams to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Vision
  • Define and drive a clear product strategy for media capabilities within the ABC News CMS that support digital publishing across web and mobile experiences.
  • Establish success metrics that reflect editorial efficiency, system performance and reliability.
  • Own the long-term strategy for ABC News media platform evolution, including integration of future capabilities such as video authoring, platform consolidation and AI workflow optimizations.
  • Set cross-domain strategy for media capabilities, ensuring alignment across authoring, media, and curation workflows.

Media Platform Leadership
  • Define the media object model - structure, metadata, and lifecycle - for video and image assets used in digital publishing.
  • Own the experience of media workflows within the ABC News CMS, including how editors upload, manage, and edit media metadata, ensuring workflows are intuitive, efficient, and aligned to editorial needs.
  • Drive convergence of fragmented workflows into a unified, platform-driven approach.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Deliver end-to-end media capabilities in partnership with engineering, design, and editorial teams.
  • Drive integration of media workflows across authoring and curation domains in partnership with product leads.
  • Build alignment across stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of goals, priorities, and outcomes.

Execution & Delivery
  • Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and deliver in iterative, measurable phases.
  • Lead complex, cross-system initiatives such as media migration and workflow consolidation.
  • Launch products with strong coordination, clear communication, and a focus on impact.

Audience-Centered Product Development
  • Reduce friction in editorial workflows, enabling users to spend more time focused on journalism and less on technical processes.
  • Partner closely with design and authoring product leads to improve the CMS experience for publishing and managing media, including metadata editing and asset management workflows.
  • Balance editorial needs with technical feasibility and long-term platform scalability.

Stakeholder Leadership
  • Build strong, trusted relationships across product, engineering, editorial, and business teams.
  • Communicate product strategy, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership.
  • Act as a platform leader, ensuring the broader ecosystem evolves in a cohesive and scalable way.


Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
  • 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in content platforms or media technology.
  • Experience building and scaling platform products, such as content management systems, asset management systems, or enterprise products.
  • Proven ability to define product vision and align cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and editorial stakeholders.
  • Experience delivering complex products with measurable impact on performance, scalability, or workflow efficiency.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort using both qualitative insights and quantitative data.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas to diverse audiences.
  • Technical fluency and experience working closely with engineering teams in agile environments.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity and making high-impact tradeoffs across multiple product domains.
  • A user-focused mindset with a passion for enabling high-quality content creation and publishing experiences.
  • Bachelor's degree required


#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in New York City, NY is $163,100 - $218,700 per year and in Glendale, CA is $155,700 - $208,700 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:
Product Management

Job Posting Primary Business:
PM - News & Ent Product

Primary Job Posting Category:
Product Management Tech

Employment Type:
Full time

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

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave

Date Posted:
2026-08-24

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.

The Walt Disney Company Careers

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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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