Live & Linear Media Platform PM Leader

The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 197,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Management to lead the Live and Linear Media Pipeline, powering Disney's live sports, DVR, FAST channels, and linear services.

You will set product vision, partner with engineering, and mentor a distributed PM team to deliver end-to-end experiences for streaming subscribers, driving reliability, scale, and cross‑team collaboration across global platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management or related discipline.
• Experience leading and developing PM teams, with demonstrated investment in coaching and raising the standard of product thinking.
• Experience owning product strategy across a complex, multi-domain platform or media technology environment, with accountability for measurable outcomes.
• Strong communications skills, with the ability to frame portfolio strategy for executive audiences and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proven ability to operate across organizational boundaries and unblock teams in ambiguous situations.

Responsibilities

• Set and own product vision, strategy, and OKRs across the Live and Linear Media Pipeline portfolio, aligned to broader Media Platform and enterprise objectives.
• Build compelling business cases for Live and Linear Pipeline investments; identify emerging problems in the domain and bring the organizational clarity needed to address them.
• Serve as the senior PM partner to engineering leaders in the live domain, establishing joint roadmap and strategy cadences and driving alignment across live pipeline domains.
• Collaborate with VOD Pipeline, Content Metadata, and Distribution and Playback PMs to maintain coherent end-to-end content journey ownership.
• Lead and coach a geographically distributed team of PMs; build a culture aligned to our Media-generalist model including PMs who use AI-assisted tools to accelerate discovery and sharpen their work.
• Maintain working fluency across the live and linear platform; identify where AI and automation can improve reliability, reduce operational burden, or unlock new capabilities.

Skills

Product management

Team leadership

Cross-domain collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Management to lead the Live and Linear Media Pipeline, powering Disney's live sports, DVR, FAST channels, and linear services.

You will set product vision, partner with engineering, and mentor a distributed PM team to deliver end-to-end experiences for streaming subscribers, driving reliability, scale, and cross‑team collaboration across global platforms.