Sr Product Development Mgr I

The Walt Disney Company; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Bengaluru, India seeks a Sr Product Development Manager I to lead content data products and drive data strategy. You will partner with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to shape data platforms that power Disney's media businesses across distribution channels.

You will influence roadmaps, manage data feeds, and coordinate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions in a fast-paced enterprise.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in product management with data products focus.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, science, economics, or related field.
• Strong understanding of big data ecosystems and cloud/on-prem/hybrid stacks.
• Experience balancing new product development with day-to-day data operations in large enterprises.
• Familiar with qualitative and quantitative analysis and data science concepts.

Responsibilities

• Act as a data strategist for content data sets across multiple data stacks.
• Develop and manage data feeds with internal/external stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships with technology and business teams.
• Collaborate with analytics, data science, and data engineering teams to deliver data solutions.
• Lead business readiness, planning, testing, rollout, and support activities.
• Manage day-to-day product management across multiple scrum teams.
• Identify risks, remove blockers, and drive resolution.
• Fill gaps across roles as an adaptive problem solver.
• Foster a collaborative environment with transparency and continuous learning.

Skills

Product management

Data products

Big data

Cloud/on-prem/hybrid

Data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Tableau

Looker

MicroStrategy

Databricks

Snowflake

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

SQL

Airflow

Python

R

Job description

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Sr Product Development Mgr I

Job ID 10152039 Location Bengaluru, India Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Oct. 16, 2026

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Commerce, Data & Identity

Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.

Disney’s Product Management team is seeking a Sr. Product Manager I, Content Data Products who will be an exceptional addition to our Content Data Products team. This team is responsible for ideating, developing, and managing Data products focused on maximizing the value of Disney’s content asset portfolio across all our distribution channels, including subscription & ad supported streaming, cable and broadcast.

In this role, you will partner with a wide cross section of stakeholders groups who are interested in developing content performance insights - including data engineers, data analysts, data scientists and content programming executives. Content data from these data products are used in decision making across brands like Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, Marvel Studios, ABC News, etc.

The ideal candidate will have deep familiarity with the data warehousing solutions, data processing pipelines, analytics platforms and BI Tooling approaches from a product management perspective. The candidate will be required to then layer on deep business domain knowledge required to develop strong partnerships with Analysts and Business teams that use the Content data insights on a daily basis. This role requires the ability to work in an incredibly fast‑paced and constantly changing environment.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Act as a data strategist and subject matter expert for content data sets and seamlessly navigate every layer of the data stack to identify opportunities where data can be leveraged for insights.
• Develop and manage regulatory and contractual data feeds to internal and external organizations and ensure stakeholder alignment across content operations, partner managers, engineering and disney leadership.
• Build strong relationships with technology and business teams across the organization and get a solid grasp of these stakeholder's pain points and business outlook.
• Partner with a whole range of teams within the Data organization (analytics, data science, data engineering, data architecture, data quality & governance, program management) to deliver high impact, cost effective data solutions.
• Lead and drive teams on all business readiness activities, including Business case development, product planning, sequencing, testing, user education, rollout, iteration, and support
• Manage day‑to‑day Product Management activities related to multiple scrum teams, including backlog refinement, prioritization of short term/long term business needs, product/feature launch communications, user onboarding and training.
• Ability to identify risks, resolve key blockers, and establish appropriate resolution paths
• Ability to fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver
• Ability to champion a collaborative work environment that cultivates shared understanding, transparency, autonomy, innovation, and continuous learning.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• Minimum of 5+ years of product management experience with strong focus on building and delivering successful data products, services and capabilities
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required, such as engineering, math, science, economics, etc.
• Strong foundational understanding of big data ecosystems to make trade‑off decisions while developing end to end solutions on cloud/on-prem/hybrid data tech stack.
• Experience balancing new product development with maintaining day‑to‑day data reporting operations in a very large‑scale enterprise set up
• Experience utilizing both qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis techniques and familiarity with common data science models and approaches to problem‑solving.
• Planning acumen and proven ability to break down work, define an MVP, as well as subsequent iterations and track feature adoption to inform roadmap development.
• Experience demonstrating leadership, self‑motivation, accountability with strong technical, strategic and problem‑solving skills to drive change in a large matrix organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Media or Entertainment Industry Data sets (examples include video content metadata, box office performance, nielsen ratings etc.)
• Experience with data visualization and BI reporting tools (Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy etc.) coupled with strong storytelling skills for technical and non‑technical audiences
• Experience or knowledge of basic programming (SQL, R, Python) and Data management technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase, AirFlow, MySQL etc.)
• Master’s degree in computer science, MBA, etc. preferred

Job Requirements

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Commerce, Data & Identity

Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of the Walt Disney Company.

Disney’s Product Management team is seeking a Sr. Product Manager I, Content Data Products who will be an exceptional addition to our Content Data Products team. This team is responsible for ideating, developing, and managing Data products focused on maximizing the value of Disney’s content asset portfolio across all our distribution channels, including subscription & ad supported streaming, cable and broadcast.

In this role, you will partner with a wide cross section of stakeholders groups who are interested in developing content performance insights - including data engineers, data analysts, data scientists and content programming executives. Content data from these data products are used in decision making across brands like Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, Marvel Studios, ABC News, etc.

The ideal candidate will have deep familiarity with the data warehousing solutions, data processing pipelines, analytics platforms and BI Tooling approaches from a product management perspective. The candidate will be required to then layer on deep business domain knowledge required to develop strong partnerships with Analysts and Business teams that use the Content data insights on a daily basis. This role requires the ability to work in an incredibly fast‑paced and constantly changing environment.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Act as a data strategist and subject matter expert for content data sets and seamlessly navigate every layer of the data stack to identify opportunities where data can be leveraged for insights.
• Develop and manage regulatory and contractual data feeds to internal and external organizations and ensure stakeholder alignment across content operations, partner managers, engineering and disney leadership.
• Build strong relationships with technology and business teams across the organization and get a solid grasp of these stakeholder's pain points and business outlook.
• Partner with a whole range of teams within the Data organization (analytics, data science, data engineering, data architecture, data quality & governance, program management) to deliver high impact, cost effective data solutions.
• Lead and drive teams on all business readiness activities, including Business case development, product planning, sequencing, testing, user education, rollout, iteration, and support
• Manage day‑to‑day Product Management activities related to multiple scrum teams, including backlog refinement, prioritization of short term/long term business needs, product/feature launch communications, user onboarding and training.
• Ability to identify risks, resolve key blockers, and establish appropriate resolution paths
• Ability to fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver
• Ability to champion a collaborative work environment that cultivates shared understanding, transparency, autonomy, innovation, and continuous learning.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• Minimum of 5+ years of product management experience with strong focus on building and delivering successful data products, services and capabilities
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required, such as engineering, math, science, economics, etc.
• Strong foundational understanding of big data ecosystems to make trade‑off decisions while developing end to end solutions on cloud/on-prem/hybrid data tech stack.
• Experience balancing new product development with maintaining day‑to‑day data reporting operations in a very large‑scale enterprise set up
• Experience utilizing both qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis techniques and familiarity with common data science models and approaches to problem‑solving.
• Planning acumen and proven ability to break down work, define an MVP, as well as subsequent iterations and track feature adoption to inform roadmap development.
• Experience demonstrating leadership, self‑motivation, accountability with strong technical, strategic and problem‑solving skills to drive change in a large matrix organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Media or Entertainment Industry Data sets (examples include video content metadata, box office performance, nielsen ratings etc.)
• Experience with data visualization and BI reporting tools (Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy etc.) coupled with strong storytelling skills for technical and non‑technical audiences
• Experience or knowledge of basic programming (SQL, R, Python) and Data management technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase, AirFlow, MySQL etc.)
• Master’s degree in computer science, MBA, etc. preferred

Disclaimer

This position is withDisney (India) Private Limited, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

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