Senior Product Manager II, Ads Data

The Walt Disney Company; Bristol, Santa Monica, New York, San Francisco, Seattle (CT, CA, NY, CA, WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Senior Product Manager II at a leading entertainment company, you will shape the future of digital advertising through data. Your role involves driving strategy and execution for Ads Data products, ensuring accurate reporting and analytics capabilities. You will collaborate with various teams to optimize ad performance and compliance with data privacy regulations. This position offers the opportunity to innovate in a fast-paced environment focused on building advanced advertising technology.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Product Management experience in AdTech or digital advertising.
• Deep understanding of advertising data infrastructure and ETL workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy for Ads Data products and event data pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure accurate modeling of advertising data.

Skills

Product Management

Data Analytics

SQL

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Snowflake

Presto

BigQuery

Job description

Senior Product Manager II, Ads Data

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Job ID: 10110695

Location: Santa Monica, California, United States / Bristol, Connecticut, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / New York, New York, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States

Business: Disney Entertainment

Date posted: 5月. 09, 2025

Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

As a Senior Product Manager II on the Ad Platform Data team at Disney, you will play a key role in shaping the future of digital advertising through data. You will drive the strategy and execution for Ads Data products, ensuring that advertising event data, metadata, and analytics capabilities power reporting, billing, measurement, and optimization across The Walt Disney Company. Your work will be instrumental in enabling real-time insights, accurate revenue reporting, and advanced ad performance analytics that support both internal teams and external advertisers.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in advertising data platforms, understands the complexities of ad event pipelines, measurement, and data infrastructure, and thrives in a fast-moving environment where data quality and precision drive business decisions. If you are passionate about building the next generation of advertising technology, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead and execute the strategy for Ads Data products, including event data pipelines, metadata schemas, operational data stores, and reporting APIs that support advertising and business intelligence needs.
2. Own the domain model for ads Event and Metadata data, ensuring that advertising log-level data, impression tracking, and campaign performance metrics are well-structured, documented, and consumable by data teams.
3. Define and execute the roadmap for key advertising data initiatives, balancing data ingestion, ETL optimization, query performance, and data governance to support both real-time and batch reporting.
4. Collaborate with Ad Measurement, Research, and Data Science teams to ensure advertising data is accurately modeled and feeds critical use cases such as attribution, audience insights, forecasting, and ML-based optimization.
5. Work with upstream teams to capture and standardize ad event data from DSPs, ad servers, and other inventory sources, ensuring consistency across platforms.
6. Partner with Ad Sales, Business Intelligence, and Finance to align on revenue reporting, campaign tracking, and forecasting accuracy.
7. Ensure compliance with Data Privacy, Governance, and Security teams, managing advertiser data according to regulations and company policies.
8. Drive product execution by prioritizing backlog items that improve data pipelines, reduce latency, enhance ad performance insights, and optimize costs.
9. Champion a data-driven culture within the Ad Platform team, leveraging analytics to measure product success and guide future investments.

What You Bring:

1. 7+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in AdTech, MarTech, or digital advertising platforms.
2. Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
3. Deep understanding of advertising data infrastructure, including event processing, real-time data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and cloud-based data lakes/warehouses.
4. Strong knowledge of ad event tracking, log-level data processing, and reporting for ad campaign performance, revenue analytics, and attribution models.
5. Proficiency in SQL and data query optimization, with experience working with Snowflake, Presto, BigQuery, or similar.
6. Strong technical documentation and diagramming skills to define data schemas, API structures, and ETL workflows.
7. Experience working across Ad Server data, DSPs, SSPs, and Ad Measurement systems.
8. Ability to communicate effectively across Engineering, Business, Data Science, and Executive stakeholders to translate complex ad data challenges into business impact.
9. Passion for Ads Data, Measurement, and Analytics—with an ability to drive innovative solutions in a rapidly evolving digital advertising landscape.

The hiring range for this position varies by location, with details provided in the original description. The actual offer will consider internal equity, geographic region, skills, and experience, along with potential bonuses and benefits.

About Disney Entertainment:

At Disney Corporate, you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching, and admired entertainment company in the world. Join a team working with world-class leaders to drive strategies that keep Disney at the forefront of entertainment and storytelling, creating memories for millions worldwide.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company is a leading international entertainment and media enterprise, with core segments including Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. With roots dating back to the 1920s, Disney continues to create world-class stories and experiences, reaching consumers globally through operations in over 40 countries.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, part of Disney Entertainment.

Disability Accommodation:

Disney is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants with disabilities and veterans. For accommodations, email [e-mail]. Requests are handled confidentially and are specific to accessibility needs related to the online application process.