Description
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organisation 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 their businesses. They are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.
The role is for a Commerce & Growth Product Manager to drive impact across critical user and revenue surfaces , including acquisition, engagement, and retention. This is a high-visibility, high-velocity role designed for a Product Manager who thrives in dynamic environments, can quickly ramp into new problem spaces, and consistently delivers measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end product strategy and execution across commerce and growth initiatives, from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Drive impact across key surfaces including:
○ Acquisition (onboarding flows, landing experiences, conversion funnels) ○ Engagement (feature adoption, lifecycle experiences, experimentation) ○ Retention & Monetization (subscriptions, pricing, paywalls, incentives, lifecycle optimization)
- Rapidly ramp into new domains and deliver impact on time-sensitive, high-priority projects.
- Identify opportunities using qualitative research, data analysis, and experimentation.
- Define success metrics, design experiments (A/B tests, cohort analyses), and iterate based on results.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, data science, marketing, and operations.
- Balance short-term wins with long-term platform scalability and technical health.
- Communicate product vision, strategy, trade-offs, and results clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product management experience, including experience building and shipping consumer products at scale.
- Proven experience working on growth, commerce, or monetization initiatives with measurable impact.
- Strong understanding of acquisition funnels, monetization, retention drivers, and lifecycle optimization.
- Comfortable working with experimentation frameworks and data-driven decision-making.
- Ability to quickly absorb platform architecture and constraints while maintaining deep empathy for users.
- Skilled at balancing business goals, user experience, and technical considerations.
- Thrives in ambiguous environments and can prioritize effectively under time constraints.
- Clear, concise communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with subscription businesses, growth, and monetization.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives that required influencing without direct authority.
- Experience in experimentation and track record of driving impact.
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Demonstrates the ability to translate ML/AI capabilities into measurable growth outcomes across acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization.
- Strong understanding of model constraints, algorithms, and iteration cycles, with the ability to apply this knowledge to real product and user experience decisions.
- Proven track record of partnering closely with ML engineering, data science, and cross-functional teams to ship scalable, production-ready solutions.
- Data-driven mindset with hands-on experience in experimentation (A/B testing, cohort analysis) and defining success metrics to optimize performance.
Benefits
- The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $173,100.00 - $232,100.00 per year, in Santa Monica, CA is $158,100.00 - $211,900.00 per year and in New York, NY is $165,600.00 - $222,000.00 per year.
- 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.