Senior Product Manager, Media Platform & CMS (AI)

confidential; United States; On-site; USD 166,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company seeks a Senior Product Manager II to lead the media platform evolution within the ABC News CMS, driving end-to-end media models, ingestion pipelines, AI integrations, and metadata systems for editorial publishing across web and mobile.

You will align cross-functional teams across engineering, design, and editorial, define roadmaps, and deliver scalable, high-quality outcomes in a complex technical environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in content platforms or media technology.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a clear product strategy for media capabilities within the ABC News CMS that support digital publishing across web and mobile experiences.
• Establish success metrics that reflect editorial efficiency, system performance and reliability.
• Own the long-term strategy for ABC News media platform evolution, including integration of future capabilities such as video authoring, platform consolidation and AI workflow optimizations.
• Set cross-domain strategy for media capabilities, ensuring alignment with authoring, media, and curation workflows.
• Define the media object model – structure, metadata, and lifecycle – for video and image assets used in digital publishing.
• Own the experience of media workflows within the ABC News CMS, including how editors upload, manage, and edit media metadata, ensuring workflows are intuitive, efficient, and aligned to editorial needs.
• Drive convergence of fragmented workflows into a unified, platform-driven approach.
• Deliver end-to-end media capabilities in partnership with engineering, design, and editorial teams.
• Drive integration of media workflows across authoring and curation domains in partnership with product leads.
• Build alignment across stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of goals, priorities, and outcomes.
• Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and deliver in iterative, measurable phases.
• Lead complex, cross-system initiatives such as media migration and workflow consolidation.
• Launch products with strong coordination, clear communication, and a focus on impact.
• Reduce friction in editorial workflows, enabling users to spend more time focused on journalism and less on technical processes.
• Partner closely with design and authoring product leads to improve the CMS experience for publishing and managing media, including metadata editing and asset management workflows.
• Balance editorial needs with technical feasibility and long-term platform scalability.
• Build strong, trusted relationships across product, engineering, editorial, and business teams.
• Communicate product strategy, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership.
• Act as a platform leader, ensuring the broader ecosystem evolves in a cohesive and scalable way.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Analytics

Communication

Agile

Technical fluency

Ambiguity management

User focus

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

The Walt Disney Company seeks a Senior Product Manager II to lead the media platform evolution within the ABC News CMS, driving end-to-end media models, ingestion pipelines, AI integrations, and metadata systems for editorial publishing across web and mobile.

You will align cross-functional teams across engineering, design, and editorial, define roadmaps, and deliver scalable, high-quality outcomes in a complex technical environment.