Senior Product Manager II, Content & Media Platform
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization 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 our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinct technical problems.
Product Management is responsible for driving the overall user experience, feature strategies and concepts, and engagement paradigms for Disney Entertainment & ESPN's global portfolio of consumer-facing streaming and digital products – including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, Nat Geo, Marvel, and Star Wars.
About the Role
At The Walt Disney Company, we believe in the power of storytelling to inform, connect, and inspire. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager II to 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.
In this role, you will own the media platform end-to-end - including asset models, ingestion pipelines, AI integrations, and metadata systems - and shape how editors create, manage, and publish media within the CMS, ensuring workflows are intuitive, scalable, and tightly integrated across authoring and downstream experiences.
This role is ideal for a product leader who thrives in complex, technical environments and brings strong product judgment to ambiguous problems - translating cross-system complexity into clear, scalable solutions and driving alignment across teams to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes.
Responsibilities
Strategy & Vision
- Define and drive a clear product strategy for media capabilities within the ABC News CMS that support digital publishing
- Establish success metrics that reflect editorial efficiency and system performance
- Drive the long-term strategy for the media platform evolution, including future capabilities
- Align cross-domain strategy for media capabilities
Media Platform Leadership
- Define the media object model for video and image assets
- Own the experience of media workflows within the CMS
- Drive convergence of fragmented workflows into a unified approach
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Deliver end-to-end media capabilities with engineering, design, and editorial teams
- Integrate media workflows with authoring and curation domains
- Align stakeholders on goals and priorities
Execution & Delivery
- Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps
- Lead complex, cross-system initiatives
- Launch products with strong coordination
Audience-Centered Product Development
- Reduce friction in workflows
- Improve the CMS experience for managing media
Stakeholder Leadership
- Build strong relationships across teams
- Communicate strategies to senior leadership