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 Senior Product Manager II will lead the evolution of the Media Platform within the ABC News CMS, which powers content creation and publishing to ABC News websites, mobile apps, and digital platforms.
Responsibilities
- Strategy & Vision:
- Define and drive a clear product strategy for media capabilities within the ABC News CMS.
- Establish success metrics that reflect editorial efficiency, system performance, and reliability.
- Own the long-term strategy for ABC News media platform evolution.
- Set cross-domain strategy for media capabilities.
- Media Platform Leadership:
- Define the media object model for video and image assets used in digital publishing.
- Own the experience of media workflows within the ABC News CMS.
- Drive convergence of fragmented workflows into a unified, platform-driven approach.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Deliver end-to-end media capabilities in partnership with engineering, design, and editorial teams.
- Drive integration of media workflows across authoring and curation domains.
- Build alignment across stakeholders.
- Execution & Delivery:
- Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and deliver in iterative, measurable phases.
- Lead complex, cross-system initiatives.
- Launch products with strong coordination and a focus on impact.
- Audience-Centered Product Development:
- Reduce friction in editorial workflows.
- Partner closely with design and authoring product leads to improve the CMS experience.
- Balance editorial needs with technical feasibility and long-term platform scalability.
- Stakeholder Leadership:
- Build strong, trusted relationships across product, engineering, editorial, and business teams.
- Communicate product strategy, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership.
- Act as a platform leader.
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualifications:
- 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in content platforms or media technology.
- Experience building and scaling platform products.
- Proven ability to define product vision and align cross-functional teams.
- Experience delivering complex products with measurable impact.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Technical fluency and experience working closely with engineering teams.
- Experience navigating ambiguity and making high-impact tradeoffs.
- A user-focused mindset with a passion for enabling high-quality content creation and publishing experiences.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Benefits
- The hiring range for this position in New York City, NY is $165,600.00 - $222,000.00 per year and in Glendale, CA is $158,100.00 - $211,900.00 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.