Hybrid Senior Product Manager – Data Products

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior Product Manager – Data Products
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $138,900 - $186,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, ETL, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Orlando, United States

About the role

• Senior Product Manager at Disney focusing on data products impacting Commerce & Finance domains. Leading lifecycle management and stakeholder collaboration for end-to-end data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the strategic roadmap for Commerce & Finance data domains, ensuring alignment with business objectives and scalable value delivery.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize capitalizable data products and solutions that drive measurable business impact and can be leveraged across the organization.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Commerce & Finance data domains, understanding data sources, structures, usage patterns, and their business impact.
• Proactively manage initiatives to ensure outcomes are achievable, realistic, and aligned with organizational priorities and data principles.
• Lead the definition and documentation of detailed data requirements for new and existing data products, collaborating with stakeholders to capture business needs and technical specifications.
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of Commerce & Finance data products, including requirements gathering, data discovery, modeling, and documentation.
• Conduct hands-on technical activities such as data profiling, quality assessments, and the development of data rules (contracts, pseudo code).
• Establish and maintain ongoing data quality measurement processes to proactively identify, monitor, and resolve issues.
• Manage product-related issues, including root cause analysis and resolution, ensuring alignment with data governance and business priorities.
• Create and maintain comprehensive product documentation, including detailed data models and product-specific guidelines.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders in Commerce, Finance, and related domains to understand evolving needs and ensure data products drive measurable value.
• Drive user adoption by tracking engagement metrics, gathering feedback, and iterating on solutions for enhanced satisfaction and business impact.
• Foster trust and alignment with stakeholders, ensuring clear communication around expectations, timelines, and product outcomes.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, and analytics teams to deliver scalable, high-quality data solutions.
• Champion data governance, compliance, and scalability across all Commerce & Finance data solutions.
• Leverage industry best practices and cutting-edge data technologies to ensure robust, reliable, and compliant data products.
• Promote operational excellence and continuous improvement in data usability, performance, and quality.
• Advocate for agile methodologies and iterative delivery practices in data product development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing the end-to-end lifecycle of data products, including requirements gathering, data discovery, and documentation, with a focus on Commerce & Finance domains.
• Demonstrated expertise in defining data requirements and identifying capitalizable products within financial and commercial data environments.
• Expertise in data management practices, medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold layers), and dimensional modeling (e.g., Kimball).
• Deep understanding of data ingestion, transformation, storage processes, and ETL pipeline design and implementation.
• Proficiency in data governance standards, regulatory compliance, and industry best practices.
• Experience with data tools, coding languages (e.g., SQL, Python), data warehouses, analytics platforms, and cloud-based data solutions (e.g., AWS, Snowflake, dbt).
• Proven ability to collaborate with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to design and implement scalable data solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align business and technical teams on product vision and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to drive user adoption, measure engagement, and iterate for continuous improvement.
• Experience in agile methodologies and iterative delivery practices.
• Experience in the hospitality, travel, or entertainment industry is a plus.

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered