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The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH

Staff Product Manager

The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

What You’ll Do

Understand technical customer requirements and can articulate them into technical build requirements

Deep empathy for customer requirements - both the goods and the bad

Willing to say no as appropriate when customer asks are not aligned with strategic direction

Use data to see opportunities and build hypotheses worthy of prioritization

Correlate multiple data dimensions to identify patterns that can be transformed into build requirements

Perform market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features for the relevant product line

Define strategy, vision, and prioritize product roadmap

Ensure business rhythm is established that corrals both customer sentiment feedback, as well as customer data that enables prioritization requests and enhancements for the product line

Engage with customer and organizational leadership to deeply understand unarticulated needs, successes, and new opportunities; then convey that information to the team in a manner that is traceable and useful.

Use data, strategic direction, and feedback loops, prioritizing high value outcomes first

Use an Agile framework, specifically with an MVP and iterative approach, partner and collaborate with engineering team to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered; communicate effectively to stakeholders

Bring techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency for the team while promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation

Champion organization-wide processes and best practices related to ideation, delivery, prioritization, and customer engagement

Productively challenge engineering design to ensure customer requirements will be fulfilled

Use a lifelong learning mentality, knowing the latest best practices and technologies

Exercise good judgment when faced with risk, blockers, or tradeoffs

Communicate expectations to partners, leaders, and customers, and optimally reset expectations as priorities or deliverables shift

Effectively onboard customers and stakeholders to new releases and functionality

Plan and prioritize work with our Software Engineering team focused on multi-cloud provisioning, governance, and data transparency

Work across a team of developers who will design, build, and maintain APIs and services that underpin our products

Required Qualifications & Skills

A minimum of 7 years of experience in technical product management.

Minimum of 2 years of product management experience in building and launching AI products.

Good understanding of the Generative AI, Agentic development process and ML model lifecycle.

Able to define priorities based on the OKRs defined by leadership

Ability to define product success KPIs measuring outcomes and drive business success.

A minimum of 5 years cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure) preferred

Proven experience setting strategic vision, large scale application/data deployments, managing software or data development lifecycles, and resolving issues that impact design, product success, or address future technologies

Ability to work with large data sets for analysis and interpretation of business results

Experienced in SCRUM/Lean Agile frameworks with an MVP/iterative approach

Ability to influence, take calculated risks, make sound business decisions, and resolve concerns as needed

Excellent interpersonal, business development, and communication skills (both written & verbal for both technical and non-technical audiences)

Positive can-do partnership demeanor while working with cross-functional teams and business units

Must be detail oriented, self-organized, and capable of simultaneously prioritizing multiple efforts

Proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Senior and Executive Management

Ability to resolve conflict

Prioritizes work effectively, making tradeoffs as necessary

Ability to synthesize robust and cost-effective technical solutions against customer requirements providing buy versus build decision making

Must be detail oriented and self-organized/motivated

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast paced environment

Models desired company cultural attributes and inclusive behaviors

Preferred Qualifications

Experience using Azure DevOps for work item management

Certification in one or more cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)

Products built with agentic AI framework

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

MBA or equivalent to post-graduation program related to product management domain.

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, Washington is $145,400 to $195,000 per year and in Burbank, CA $138,900 to $186,200 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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, dependent on the level and position offered.

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