Job Posting Title:

Senior Product Manager

Req ID:

10098050

Job Description:

“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX) Technology & Digital. Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

This role will be highly integrated with business and technology stakeholders throughout all phases of the product lifecycle to ensure initiatives deliver expected business and guest value.

The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter with expertise in creating and executing a product vision. If you thrive on taking ownership, driving action, and contributing to the growth of product organizations, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and manage the product vision and roadmap throughout the entire product delivery process.

• Serve as a passionate advocate for the product, both internally and externally while educating stakeholders and customers about product features, benefits, and value propositions.

• Define and monitor key performance metrics to drive product decisions, while identifying areas for optimization.

• Manage collaborative discussions to gain alignment and negotiate with our Business & product partners.

• Prioritize with our business, product, and engineering partners, managing complex discussions to drive alignment.

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

• Execute discovery work for new capabilities, documenting current state and desired future state to guide the development process, synthesizing findings in a clear and compelling way.

• Lead requirement-gathering, user story creation, user acceptance criteria, prioritization, and execution with cross-functional teams, ensuring consistent communication with peers and leadership.

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

• Proactively identify potential risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to project timelines or deliverables.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience in product management, technology delivery, or strategy development.

• Proven experience with the software delivery lifecycle

• Subject matter expertise in the generation and management of strategies and roadmaps, rooted in technology alignment with and enablement of business objectives.

• Experience leading initiatives that span several teams and functional areas, integrating diverse points of view toward a solution.

• Proven problem-solving abilities, gathering relevant partner inputs to drive resolution.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to facilitate complex conversations and pitch innovative solutions.

• Advanced at writing business & functional requirements.

• Advanced knowledge and ability to use collaboration tools to document and communicate effectively.

• Advanced knowledge and ability to use visualization tools to simply illustrate and communicate complex concepts.

• Experience within the hospitality industry a plus.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience required.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Previous experience in mobile/app/web development products/solutions

• Gen AI models and/or ML models domain knowledge

• Excellent requirements & solution design documentation, presentation and communication skills

• Experience shipping multiple products in an agile software development environment.

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The hiring range for this position in Seattle is $142,600.00-$191,100.00 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:

Technology & Digital

Job Posting Primary Business:

Tech Delivery, Platforms, & Core Systems

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Management

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Seattle, WA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2024-08-20