Lead Product Manager
The Walt Disney Company
Job Posting Title:
Lead Product ManagerReq ID:
10124514Job Description:
“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.
We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!
This role sits in the Disney Signature Experiences organization within Technology & Digital for Disney Experiences. This role will serve as a key member of the product team supporting Storyliving by Disney.
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Management, Emerging Businesses your responsibilities will include:
- Guiding a team of product managers responsible for defining the product strategy, creating outcome based roadmaps and developing requirements.
- Building positive relationships with and leading large and diverse groups of collaborators at multiple levels, from end users to executives, across the enterprise.
- Leading external vendor teams to deliver products.
- Providing product and scorecard updates to business and technology leadership.
- Negotiating through blockers.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with technology and business leaders to establish commercial strategies using technology to drive the business.
- Serving as part of squad on larger projects, assisting with their successful completion.
It is key for this role to have a holistic understanding of how to use product management models and technology to create an exceptional guest experience, support business operations and optimize Cast in a financially constrained and rapidly changing environment.
What you will do:
- Ability to partner with diverse and cross-functional teams in a meaningful way to produce quality results.
- Demonstrated proficiency in strategy development and day-to-day opertions aligning with business priorities bringing the concepts to reality.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills and proven experience driving alignment across multiple stakeholders and mediums.
- Understanding of the latest product management frameworks and theories and how to apply them to create impactful experiences.
- A understanding of current Disney Experience capabilities as it relates to converging technology seamlessly into the Guest experience.
- Out of the box thinking, ability to broker creative solutions with internal and external teams to overcome roadblocks and move projects forward.
- Creates data driven strategies by staying abrest of the latest business and market trends while also monitoring guest behavior through analytics and consumer testing to track against KPI’s.
- Partner with and guide Product Managers and technical teams to define and deliver against guest and business needs.
- Serve as a business facing contact for cross-functional partners on the Storyliving by Disney business.
- Collaborate with other Disney Experiences Tech & Digital teams to ensure alignment with product standards.
- Stay abreast of the latest technology trends to find strategic opportunities to use innovation to solve business problems.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years combined business and digital experience with 2+ years in a product management position
- Ability to set a clear vision and drive accountability to meet their goals.
- Served as the lead on small to medium digital and technology projects, including evaluating and improving estimates, scope, and plans.
- Experience with technical, user and business issues in a digital organization.
- Identify and articulate the impact of the latest industry trends on our business.
- Work collaboratively across large matrixed organizations.
- Experience collaborating with and achieve applicable results through others and the capability to interact within all levels.
- Ability to mentor, educate, and handle conflict management/negotiations.
- Experience with Agile software development methodology.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience evaluating emerging technology solutions and companies for fit and viability against use cases.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, proactive thinker with the ability to thrive in an often ambiguous, fast paced environment.
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization
- Working knowledge of markets, products, and competitive landscape (including ability to predict and explain current/future trends), and the ability to translate (both verbally and in writing) technologies into business value.
- Strong analytical and financial skills.
Required Education
- Bachelor’s degree required. Graduate degree preferred.
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Job Posting Segment:
Technology & DigitalJob Posting Primary Business:
Disney Signature ExperiencesPrimary Job Posting Category:
Product OperationsEmployment Type:
Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Celebration, FL, USAAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2025-07-01