Data Product Manager, DTC Telemetry & Measurement

ESPN; New York (NY); On-site; USD 182,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

ESPN in New York City is seeking a Manager, Data Product Management to lead measurement and instrumentation across Disney's direct-to-consumer experiences, including ESPN+. You will guide a team responsible for data collection strategies and trust in analytics supporting experimentation and personalization.

You will own the DTC instrumentation roadmap, mentor data product managers, and collaborate with analytics, engineering, and product partners to raise the bar on data quality and impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data product management, data instrumentation, digital analytics implementation, or a closely related field.
• Direct experience leading and developing teams in instrumentation, analytics, or measurement.
• Fluency with AI tools in your own work, and a track record of raising AI fluency across your team.
• Strong product sense applied to measurement: you've owned strategy and roadmap with clear accountability for outcomes.
• Deep understanding of first-party and third-party measurement across web, mobile, and connected devices, and how instrumentation choices affect downstream quality and trust.
• Hands-on technical depth in instrumentation and analytics implementation on enterprise measurement platforms (AEP/CJA, Amplitude, or comparable), with recent hands-on application, not solely oversight.
• Track record of cross-functional execution across Product Engineering, Product Management, Analytics, QA, and Program teams in matrixed organizations.
• Proficiency in SQL and/or Python for data validation, troubleshooting, and analysis.
• Clear communicator who can translate technical tradeoffs into business terms for any audience, including executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the team, setting the standard for DTC data collection and raising the bar across Product & Technology.
• Own the DTC data collection roadmap across the Disney+ and Hulu product experiences, sequencing by business need and evaluating emerging capabilities.
• Drive execution and stay ahead of delivery risk, balancing speed with long-term telemetry health.
• Write and review instrumentation solution designs (events, parameters, schemas) that feed analytics, experimentation, and ML downstream.
• Own data quality outcomes, closing coverage gaps before downstream teams do, increasingly through AI-assisted monitoring.
• Move the team toward intelligent, contract-based instrumentation that scales coverage automatically and accelerates the engineering lifecycle.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Product Engineering, Product Management, and Business Operations on shared measurement goals.
• Represent the team's strategy to senior leaders across the company.

Skills

Data product management

Team leadership

AI fluency

Measurement strategy

Web/mobile analytics

Instrumentation platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

SQL/Python

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

AEP/CJA

Amplitude

Job description

ESPN in New York City is seeking a Manager, Data Product Management to lead measurement and instrumentation across Disney's direct-to-consumer experiences, including ESPN+. You will guide a team responsible for data collection strategies and trust in analytics supporting experimentation and personalization.

You will own the DTC instrumentation roadmap, mentor data product managers, and collaborate with analytics, engineering, and product partners to raise the bar on data quality and impact.