Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning

The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Director of Partnerships Strategic Planning in Santa Monica, CA. This senior leader will inform global content partnership strategy through insights, analysis, and cross-portfolio perspective, guiding investments and partner models to deliver durable value at scale.

Reporting to the VP, Partnerships Strategic Planning, this role leads a high‑performing team, aligning internal stakeholders with external signals and ensuring financial rigor in partnership

Responsibilities

• Define the global partnership and add-ons portfolio strategy, structuring holistic, multi-region and multi-component strategies across global content portfolio opportunities for Disney+/Hulu and connecting individual partner opportunities across regions, business verticals, and deal types to broader DTC priorities, subscriber growth objectives, and regional business plans.
• Develop a unified global partnership narrative, identify cross‑market opportunities, and maintain a consolidated partnerships and DTC portfolio repository, including a clear narrative of strategic intent, history, performance, and forward‑looking opportunities.
• Lead partner opportunity and risk assessments, evaluating strategic, financial, and operational impacts across current and prospective partners.
• Provide partner insights and decision support, leveraging internal performance data, market intelligence, and research to inform deal strategy and prioritization.
• Lead partner and contract forensics, identifying points of alignment through spend concentration, portfolio dependency, and relative strategic value.
• Own partnerships market intelligence, including competitive dynamics, distribution trends, and emerging partnership

Job description

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Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning

Job ID 10164962 Location Santa Monica, California, United States Business Disney Direct to Consumer Date posted Nov. 11, 2026

The Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning is a senior strategic leader responsible for informing global content partnership strategy through insights, analysis, and cross‑portfolio perspective. Reporting into the VP, Partnerships Strategic Planning, this role leads a high‑performing team and serves as a trusted thought leader for the entire DTC Content & Planning & Partnerships organization, ensuring partner decisions, portfolio investments, and our increasingly complex content partner models translate into durable value at scale.

This leader owns the development of cohesive strategic narratives and opportunity framing across the full spectrum of content partnerships, working closely with the other Directors and members of the Partnerships Strategic Planning team to build through-lines between the businesses. Operating at the intersection of strategy, content and finance, the Director translates complex market dynamics and partnership structures into clear insights, investment frameworks, and executive‑ready decision support.

The role plays a critical connective function across the entire partnership organization, aligning internal stakeholders and external signals into a single, coherent view of partnership performance, risk, and opportunity, while ensuring that content partnership strategies are grounded in financial rigor, market intelligence, and long‑term portfolio value creation. Success in this role requires the ability to operate as both a strategic architect and a strong people leader, combining intellectual rigor with practical execution. The ideal candidate brings deep fluency in SVOD economics and content partnership models, paired with the judgment to balance near‑term opportunities against long‑term portfolio value.

Responsibilities include:

• Define the global partnership and add-ons portfolio strategy, structuring holistic, multi-region and multi-component strategies across global content portfolio opportunities for Disney+/Hulu and connecting individual partner opportunities across regions, business verticals, and deal types to broader DTC priorities, subscriber growth objectives, and regional business plans.
• Develop a unified global partnership narrative, identify cross‑market opportunities, and maintain a consolidated partnerships and DTC portfolio repository, including a clear narrative of strategic intent, history, performance, and forward‑looking opportunities.
• Lead partner opportunity and risk assessments, evaluating strategic, financial, and operational impacts across current and prospective partners.
• Provide partner insights and decision support, leveraging internal performance data, market intelligence, and research to inform deal strategy and prioritization.
• Lead partner and contract forensics, identifying points of alignment through spend concentration, portfolio dependency, and relative strategic value.
• Own partnerships market intelligence, including competitive dynamics, distribution trends, and emerging partnership