Sr Product Mgr

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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

The Data Product team is seeking a Senior Product Manager I to drive data collection outcomes across Disney’s DTC streaming products. This role sits at the intersection of analytics, product, and engineering, ensuring high‑quality behavioral data is captured and utilized.

• Define analytics instrumentation across Disney's DTC streaming products, ensuring data completeness, accuracy, and quality.
• Convert product requirements and business questions into precise telemetry specifications (events, parameters, identifiers, schemas) for consistent implementation.
• Drive instrumentation from discovery through solution design, implementation, validation, and launch, coordinating across Product Engineering and platform teams.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure telemetry is implemented correctly, performs reliably, and aligns with platform standards.
• Identify telemetry gaps and risks and drive resolution through sharper requirements and tight engineering collaboration.
• Ensure telemetry supports experimentation frameworks, personalization, and downstream analytics through documented behavioral signals.
• Use data to audit telemetry health and downstream usage, informing future instrumentation decisions.
• Improve documentation, share learnings, and help evolve instrumentation schemas and patterns across the team.

• 5+ years in analytics instrumentation, telemetry, data product management, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Hands‑on experience designing event‑based data models and telemetry schemas (event taxonomies, parameters, identifiers, data contracts) for web, mobile, or connected TV.
• Ability to translate product requirements and business questions into precise, actionable telemetry specifications for engineering teams.
• SQL fluency and comfort working in cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Big Query, or equivalent) to validate telemetry quality and conduct self‑analysis.
• Experience driving cross‑functional instrumentation delivery across Product Engineering and platform partners.
• A bias for action and comfort with ambiguity – advancing projects without a fully defined playbook.
• Use of AI‑enabled tools to accelerate development, validation, and problem solving.
• Clear written communication: crisp technical specs, accessible explanations for both engineers and business stakeholders.

• Experience in streaming, media, or direct‑to‑consumer subscription products and understanding of how behavioral signals map to product and business metrics.
• Familiarity with first‑party telemetry infrastructure and data flow from collection through analytics, experimentation, and personalization.
• Experience supporting experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, feature flagging) through high‑quality behavioral telemetry.
• Understanding of privacy, consent, and identity considerations in first‑party data collection (GDPR, CCPA) and their practical implications for instrumentation design.
• Ability to improve or standardize telemetry schemas, instrumentation patterns, or documentation practices across product teams.
• Familiarity with event‑driven architectures or streaming data infrastructure and their relationship to telemetry quality.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

The hiring range for this position in New York City, NY is $148,700 – $199,400 per year. The base pay may vary based on internal equity and other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided, along with a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.

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