Lead Product Manager, Data & AI Integration, Technology VMO; Project

Overview

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. The Enterprise Technology & Data mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation.

Team

Description:

The Technology Process and Performance organization partners across all organizations to drive process efficiencies and effectiveness by measuring the organization's performance and driving excellence. The Technology Vendor Management Office (VMO) is dedicated to enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of vendor-related processes across our organization. The VMO aims to leverage data-driven insights to optimize vendor management, streamline operations, and support informed decision-making.

The Lead Product Manager, Data & AI Integration, VMO Transformation owns the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the Technology VMO, Sourcing and Business Management data and AI capabilities that enable vendor management optimization, cost transparency, and operational decision making. The role focuses on delivering end-to-end visibility into demand, spend, cost drivers, and performance, enabling leaders to manage vendor portfolios with greater financial discipline and clarity.

Operating as a senior individual contributor, this role partners across VMO, finance, sourcing, business operations, and technology to translate complex cost, demand, and performance needs into durable data and AI enabled product capabilities, integrating the enterprise data & AI strategy to drive standardization, transparency, and optimization across vendor related operations while reducing manual effort and reconciliation.

This is a project hire role with an expected assignment length of 24 months.

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for data integration, analytics, and AI capabilities supporting vendor management optimization and cost transparency.

• Drive outcome based prioritization across initiatives (e.g., cost transparency, spend visibility, performance insights, workflow automation), balancing stakeholder needs, feasibility, and measurable impact.

• Translate business and operational needs into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and a prioritized backlog, partnering with delivery teams through refinement and release planning.

• Define and deliver product capabilities that enable vendor performance visibility, portfolio insights, and spend transparency, including clear success criteria and user outcomes.

• Define data requirements and integration needs, enabling reliable, analytics-ready views across systems to support planning, forecasting, and performance tracking.

• Support delivery of AI-assisted capabilities (e.g., forecasting, anomaly detection, insight summarization) within established platforms, standards, and guardrails.

• Lead ongoing backlog management, UAT, and release readiness, accountable for adoption and delivery of measurable business outcomes.

• Communicate product plans, trade-offs, risks, and insights clearly to business and technical stakeholders.

• Facilitate alignment across cross-functional partners with differing priorities through structured discussions and clear decision framing.

• Support governance, controls, and compliance requirements related to data, financial transparency, and operational processes.

• Help drive adoption of new product capabilities and workflows through clear documentation, enablement, and change support.

• Contribute to risk mitigation and continuous improvement through standards, transparency, KPI tracking, and post-implementation review.

• Minimum of 7+ years of technical product management or relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience owning product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for data integration, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions within a defined product area.

• Strong background in standardizing, automating, and optimizing vendor management and financial workflows to improve efficiency and transparency.

• Ability to design and deliver capabilities for vendor performance…