Description
The Strategy & Operations team within Disney Entertainment and ESPN - Product and Technology is responsible for shaping the organization's long-term vision, developing actionable product strategies, and executing against the org's most critical near-term priorities.
As Product Strategy and Operations Principal, Advertising Platforms, you will be the analytical backbone and connective tissue for the AdTech organization. Specifically, you will use data-driven rigor and execution discipline to set OKR targets, manage performance, and maintain operational momentum.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the OKR-setting process for AdTech leadership, partnering with team leads to set objectives, using informed analysis to define measurable targets, and managing recurring leadership reviews to assess performance.
- Be the analytical backbone for key metrics, understanding data sets, identifying trends, surfacing insights, and working with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to optimize performance.
- Stand up and/or manage leadership review forums, including Product Reviews, Weekly Stats, OKR Grading, and more, proactively identifying opportunities to improve velocity and impact through operational rigor.
- Partner with Corporate Communications, Creative Storytelling, and/or Workplace Experience to plan town halls, offsites/summits, and other large-scale events where Product and Technology is represented.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in ProdOps, Strategy, or Analytics roles within top-tier Technology Companies, Start Ups, Management Consulting, and/or Professional Services firms.
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with expertise in organizing complex data to create clear, concise narratives.
- Experience defining and measuring OKRs, KPIs, or other comparable success metrics.
- Deep domain expertise in the Advertising ecosystem, possessing the technical fluency to bridge the gap between engineering roadmaps and commercial objectives within a complex organizational environment.
- Proactive 'self-starter' with a passion for driving outcomes and a bias for action.
- Team-oriented culture carrier with a proclivity towards cross-functional collaboration.
- Strong written, presentation, and oral communication skills, capable of developing high-level presentations for senior executive audiences.
The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $190,700.00 to $255,700.00 per year, and in Glendale, CA is $174,100.00 to $233,500.00 per year.