Global Growth & Monetization Product Leader

The Walt Disney Company; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 276,000 - 370,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking an Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization to define and lead global growth strategies. This senior leader will shape how we acquire, engage, retain, and monetize customers across brands, driving end-to-end product execution in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires managing a team of product managers, partnering with engineering, data science, marketing, and finance to create scalable growth.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing PM teams at scale.
• Proven track record of delivering growth and monetization impact in a subscription, marketplace, or consumer platform business.
• Deep expertise in customer acquisition, plan tiering, upsell strategies, account management, retention, and monetization.
• Strong growth mindset with the ability to set ambitious goals, test hypotheses, and adapt strategies based on insights.
• Technical aptitude to partner closely with engineering and data teams on platform capabilities and system design.
• Experience considering ROI, financial tradeoffs, value creation, and value capture in product decisions.
• Experience in entertainment, media, or adjacent industries strongly preferred.
• Exceptional analytical, storytelling, and executive communication skills.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and leading cross-functional alignment at the executive level.

Responsibilities

• Define Strategy & Vision: Own the long-term growth and monetization strategy across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition to retention and revenue optimization.
• Drive Rapid Execution & Impact: Oversee product roadmaps and delivery, ensuring initiatives drive measurable business and customer impact in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Lead & Grow Team: Build, coach, and scale a high-performing team of product managers, fostering a culture of deep consumer and business understanding, experimentation, learning, and results.
• Balance Value Creation & Capture: Develop innovative offerings that deliver customer value while driving sustainable revenue growth.
• Experimentation & Optimization: Establish a culture of A/B testing, data-driven learning, and rapid iteration across acquisition, conversion, and retention funnels.
• Ecosystem Thinking: Navigate complex ecosystems, understanding incentives and trade-offs across customer, business, and partner needs.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with other product teams, marketing, engineering, design, data, finance, and business development to align on goals and execute effectively.
• Platform Mindset: Deeply understand and influence platform capabilities and technical constraints to scale growth and monetization initiatives globally.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking an Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization to define and lead global growth strategies. This senior leader will shape how we acquire, engage, retain, and monetize customers across brands, driving end-to-end product execution in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires managing a team of product managers, partnering with engineering, data science, marketing, and finance to create scalable growth.