Senior Product Manager II, Video Player Experiences

04 Aug 2024

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Comprised of Disney's international media businesses and the Company's various streamingservices, the Disney Media Entertainment & Distribution segment aligns technology, content anddistribution platforms to expand the Company's global footprint and deliver world-class,personalized entertainment experiences to consumers around the world. This segment isresponsible for The Walt Disney Company's direct-to-consumer businesses globally, includingthe ESPN+ sports streaming service, programmed in partnership with ESPN; Disney+; and theCompany's ownership stake in Hulu.

The Senior Product Manager, Video Player & Experiences will play an integral role in theproduct vision and development of ESPN's video playback technology & experiences acrossmultiple platforms including mobile, web and connected devices. This role is responsible forhelping to create a world-class video playback experience that delights our fans. Our mission isto be the first place fans choose to experience sports related media.

Within 3 months, you will:
  • Learn how our product operates, and how our tools and platform translate to what the customer sees.
  • Establish relationships with teams and stakeholders integral to video playback and end user experience (Media Engineering, Tooling & Instrumentation teams, Player teams, etc.).
  • Take ownership of a key project in the video player space.
  • Get access to various reporting tools and dashboards that you'll need to be successful.
  • Begin writing requirements, designing experiments, and working with an engineering team to build our product.
Within 6 months, you will:
  • Build a deep understanding of our customers, why and where they consider ESPN, and how and why they do/do not consume media on ESPN.
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team including engineering, design, user research and data science to build a compelling product roadmap and facilitate the execution of that roadmap to ship impactful product features that delight our customers and increase ESPN's reach.
  • Identify areas to invest in as a product team.
Within 12 months you will:
  • Continuously capture insights from customer feedback, experiments, research, andanalysis to iterate on the roadmap and improve the product.
  • Be an advocate for our customers and the team's mission internally in the company andpresent our work and roadmap to internal and external partners.
  • Participate in interviews and hiring to expand the team.
  • Become a subject matter expert on various aspects of the playback experience andproduct.
  • Lead at least one major project that creates impact for the business and users.
The right candidate will have a strong vision and be capable of blending the fan's perspectiveand desire with ESPN's business goals. Additionally, the candidate must be a self-motivated,team player who can drive the overall business objectives of the organization. This person mustbe able to work closely with other internal and external product & technology experts and have strong operational skills.

Responsibilities :
  • Writing Product Requirements
  • Data Analysis and Experimentation
  • Responsible for end-to-end ownership of large projects
  • Helps oversee delivery based on daily project schedules and coordinates activities across diverse disciplines
  • Develops detailed requirements, feature definitions and implementation plans
  • Makes recommendations to improve product(s) or processes utilizing user research and/or design concepts
  • Identifies problem spaces for potential product solutions

Basic Qualifications :
  • 7+ years of professional experience in product management, or a similar role
  • Organized approach to identifying, understanding, and solving customer problems
  • Experience with hypothesis-driven experimentation and deriving meaningful insights from data
  • Track record of collaborating with a large and varied group of cross-functional teams and partners to tackle ambiguous problems and make forward progress
  • Ability to think strategically and craft a compelling product vision
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Strong ability to multi-task and context-switch with ease, in a fast-paced and ever-evolving organization.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Previous experience working in AGILE
  • Previous experience working with streaming media, data distribution or internal platforms with dynamic data ingestion
  • Previous experience working on client side media infrastructure

Additional Information : #DMEDCXP#DISNEYTECH

  • ID: #44589613
  • State: California Burbank 91501 Burbank USA
  • City: Burbank
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-08-04
  • Deadline: 2022-10-02
  • Category: Et cetera