Senior Product Manager

The Walt Disney Company; Kirkman (IA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Orlando, FL is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead strategically digitally-led initiatives within Disney Experiences. This role partners with operations, design, analytics, development, and executive teams to bring products to market and grow opportunities.

You will shape the product vision, gather requirements, run tests to improve Guest experience, monitor KPIs, and coordinate releases with engineering and QA in a matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management with digital software development.
• Proven ability to launch and scale products with roadmaps and success measurements.
• Ability to use AI tools to accelerate product discovery and execution across teams.
• Translate customer and business needs into requirements and user stories.
• Experience leading cross-functional agile teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication to provide clarity and direction.
• Data-driven approach with ability to adapt business and technical thinking.
• Experience updating user-facing digital experiences using CMS.

Responsibilities

• Shape the strategy: lead the product vision and roadmap execution.
• Gather requirements, write user stories, prioritize with cross-functional teams.
• Lead testing strategy to increase conversion and guest experience.
• Define KPIs and monitor product performance for continuous improvement.
• Build relationships with stakeholders across product, engineering, creative services, operations, and support.
• Prioritize with business and engineering partners, manage technical discussions.
• Coordinate releases and updates with engineering and QA.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies affecting timelines.
• Advocate for the product internally and externally, explaining features and value.
• Conduct market research on industry trends and customer needs.

Skills

Product management

Digital software development

AI tools in product discovery

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decision making

Communication skills

CMS familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Jira

Smartsheet

Confluence

Content Management Systems

Job description

Job Posting Title:

Senior Product Manager

Req ID:

10156642

Job Description:

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

What You'll Do:

This role is onsite in Orlando, FL Monday – Thursday.

The Senior Product Manager role is a member of the Technology team responsible for leading the strategic direction of digitally led initiatives within Disney Experiences. The team runs all aspects of product strategy, concept development, defining, and implementing these initiatives in collaboration with key team members and partners. They will work with the Manager and Senior Manager to support platform roadmap, integration across products and capabilities, and long-term commercial growth program at scale. They will work closely with operations, design, analytics, development, and executive teams to bring products to market and develop and grow business opportunities for Disney Experiences. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, able to work effectively in a matrixed organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality products and applications that Guests love!

Responsibilities:

• Shape the strategy: Lead the product vision and roadmap execution throughout the entire product delivery process.

• Create clarity: Lead requirement-gathering, user story creation, prioritization, and execution with cross-functional teams, ensuring consistent communication with peers, business stakeholders and leadership.

• Testing Strategy: Lead the effort to run simultaneous tests to increase conversion, improve Guest experience and drive future strategy.

• Define success: Define and monitor key performance metrics to track product performance while identifying areas for optimization that drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Build relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and cross-functional collaborators, including product, engineering and creative services. commercial, and customer support.

• Set the priority: Prioritize with our business, product, and engineering partners, managing technical discussions to drive alignment.

• Deliver excellence: Collaborate with Engineering and QA to deliver Coordinate and communicate iterative product releases and updates, ensuring timely delivery and smooth deployment.

• Think proactively: Identify potential risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to project timelines or deliverables.

• Lead communication: Serve as a passionate advocate for your product(s), internally and externally, while educating stakeholders and customers about product features, benefits, and value propositions.

• Look beyond: Conduct market research to understand industry trends, competitive landscape, and customer needs.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years of product management experience, with digital software development experience technical focus.

• Demonstrated success in launching and scaling products by recognizing customer needs, creating a vision, building roadmaps, identifying success measurements, and executing excellence with peers.

• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to accelerate product discovery, decision making and execution. leading initiatives that span several teams and functional areas.

• Proven Ability to translate customer and business needs through requirements and user stories.

• Proven Experience leading cross-functional teams within an agile, collaborative environment.

• Strong communicator with proven ability to bring clarity and direction through written and verbal communication skills.

• Data and hypothesis-driven aptitude, with the ability to flex business and technical thinking.

• Ability to manage and update user‑facing digital experiences using enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with consumer-facing services.

• Experience within hospitality and/or technology industries.

• Experience with Content Management Systems.

• Experienced in Microsoft Office applications.

• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, and Confluence.

• Familiarity with design principles and best practices.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent years of experience

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $135,200 to $181,200 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Commerce

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Management

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Orlando, FL, USA

Date Posted:

2026-08-06