Sr Product Manager
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Product Manager/Product Owner Tech to lead the delivery and ongoing evolution of the Studio and Production Office applications that support The Walt Disney Studios. This role elevates traditional technical business analysis into an AI-empowered, strategic product position, leveraging current and emerging technologies to drive meaningful improvements in production office workflows.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in production workflow and technology, creating solutions that return valuable time to the creative process. This role blends business analysis, product management, AI fluency, and stakeholder partnership to ensure technical solutions are strategically aligned, user-focused, and positioned for future growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with business clients or other product teams within the organization to gather requirements, define use cases, and translate needs into actionable acceptance criteria and prototypes.
- In close partnership with leadership and business stakeholders, develop and execute the product vision and roadmap across internal applications, customized Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) options, and licensed SaaS solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility.
- Using AI-assisted coding tools, build and deliver high-quality solutions on time and within scope. Establish and evolve new AI-enabled workflows, including integration of LLM-powered tools and agents.
- Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and prioritization activities. Define, groom, and accept user stories that translate to translate stakeholder work.
- Create and maintain product documentation, data flow and UML diagrams, and other technical artifacts to support understanding, using context where possible.
- Analyze and interpret data to support decisions at the studio, production and individual contributor levels.
- Partner with engineering teams to support integration with studio data platforms.
- Monitor product KPIs and feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Highlight all successes, opportunities, and risks in executive-level communications.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in film production, computer science, engineering, or a comparable field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years in product ownership within software development environments.
- 5+ years of experience using Agile Scrum methodology and leading technical delivery.
- 5+ years in a Production or Studio environment.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools (Cursor, Claude, etc.) to build applications and improve workflows.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with data platforms.
- Ability to translate technical details into clear business language.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on knowledge of the film production lifecycle.
- Experience with cross-functional projects in an enterprise environment.
- Experience developing or managing agents and workflows.
- Experience creating dashboards, reports, and business insights.
- Certified Agile Product Owner is a plus.
- Experience with version control systems (GitHub, GitLab, etc.).
Compensation:
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $141,900 to $190,300 per year. The base pay will depend on internal equity and may vary by location, skills, and experience. A bonus may be provided as part of the compensation package.