Senior Product Manager, Live & Linear Media Platform

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 197,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and long-term incentives

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Management to lead the Live and Linear Media Pipeline team, accountable for the platform capabilities powering Disney's live sports and entertainment, linear dMVPD service, DVR, FAST channel playout, content marking and decoration, in-stream ad insertion, and the operational tooling behind it all.

Live and linear is among the most operationally complex, highest-stakes work on the platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product management or a related discipline.
• Experience leading and developing PM teams, with investment in coaching and raising the standard of product thinking.
• Experience owning product strategy across a complex, multi-domain platform or media technology environment.

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

10+ years of PM experience

Leadership of PM teams

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Management to lead the Live and Linear Media Pipeline team, accountable for the platform capabilities powering Disney's live sports and entertainment, linear dMVPD service, DVR, FAST channel playout, content marking and decoration, in-stream ad insertion, and the operational tooling behind it all.

Live and linear is among the most operationally complex, highest-stakes work on the platform.