Principal Product Manager, Data Platform Governance

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Location Seattle, Washington, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Oct. 15, 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.

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.

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead strategy, roadmap, and execution for Platform Stewardship and Governed Data Products within Data Platform Governance. This role sits at the center of the Platform Governance pillar - where metric definitions, semantic standards, catalog metadata, and lifecycle governance must converge so that every answer, whether surfaced in Looker, or Tableau or returned by an AI agent, is trustworthy, consistent, and traceable.

You will own a large, ambiguous, business-critical product area spanning Metrics Consistency, Semantic Layer Governance, Metadata Management, and Data Lifecycle Governance across multiple platforms and teams, operating with broad autonomy and minimal direction to define strategy and drive execution. You will translate strategy into executable roadmaps. The work moves the organization from tribal knowledge and manual reviews to measurable, automated controls that scale with the business - requiring deep product judgment, technical fluency in data pipelines and lineage, and the ability to align senior stakeholders across Privacy, Legal, Security, Business, Data Analytics and Engineering.

• Serve as the primary product lead for Platform Stewardship and Governed Data, representing strategy and roadmap decisions in senior leadership and executive forums.
• Define and lead the product strategy and roadmap for Platform Stewardship and Governed Data, prioritizing metadata management, metrics consistency, semantic layer governance, catalog modernization, and lifecycle governance.
• Establish platform-agnostic, steward-owned metric definitions that resolve fragmentation across BI tools, and AI agent workflows.
• Drive semantic layer standardization and metadata automation, so governed definitions are discoverable, consistent, and reusable across Snowflake and Databricks domains.
• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for stewardship capabilities - from problem definition and PRD through launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Partner with engineering…