Senior Product Manager, Ad Platform & Experimentation

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentives

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers in Glendale, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager I for the Ad Platform team. You will own the experimentation lifecycle, translate data into actionable product insights, and collaborate across Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics to optimize viewer experience and monetization.

You will lead end-to-end launches, design testable experiments, and present executive‑level results.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in data‑driven, experimentation‑heavy environments and a Bachelor's degree in a related field of study.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to reason about tradeoffs using quantitative and qualitative inputs.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics teams.
• Hands‑on experience throughout lifecycle including experiment sequencing strategy, effective treatment & control definition, communicating results, production rollout, and holdout group strategy.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to conduct and validate quantitative analysis
• Highly truth‑seeking and effective in selecting north star KPIs, assessing authenticity of analyses, and testing rationale of data narratives to surface effective next‑steps.
• Unwavering bias for execution and impeccable follow‑through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex results to non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Advance and refine our ad experience and ad optimization vision by exploring new features through experimentation and achieving performance objectives.
• Join a team of Product and Engineers to plan and prioritize our viewer and supply optimization roadmap by connecting experimentation learnings to longer‑term product strategy.
• Own end‑to‑end launch of experiment initiatives from hypothesis definition to results interpretation and presentation.
• Partner with Data Science and Analytics teams to translate business questions into testable experiment designs and clear evaluation plans.
• Coordinate cross‑functional execution with Engineering, Operations and Business, to ensure experiments launch on time with high quality.
• Synthesize experiment results into clear narratives and recommendations for product and business leaders, including executive‑level readouts.
• Help operationalize experimentation processes, documentation, and tooling to improve velocity and clarity across the organization.
• Proactively identify new opportunities to improve lever efficiency, user experience, and monetization outcomes through experimentation.
• Influence prioritization and decision‑making across fleets by framing clear, data‑backed recommendations.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Experimentation

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers in Glendale, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager I for the Ad Platform team. You will own the experimentation lifecycle, translate data into actionable product insights, and collaborate across Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics to optimize viewer experience and monetization.

You will lead end-to-end launches, design testable experiments, and present executive‑level results.