Senior Product Manager II, Content & Media Platform

Senior Product Manager II, Content & Media Platform

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Location New York, New York, United States / Glendale, California, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Aug. 25, 2026

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.

We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Deliver end-to-end media capabilities in partnership with engineering, design, and editorial…