Principal Product Manager, Distribution Platforms
Principal Product Manager, Distribution Platforms
- Reporting to: Senior Director, Product Management, Devices & Distribution
- Business Unit: Disney Streaming Services
- Location: New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
About the Team
This role is a part of the Devices and Distribution (D&D) team, a growing product organization within Disney Streaming Services, that is focused on leveraging and shaping the rapidly growing landscape of consumer devices.
The D&D charter is to:
- Deliver broad subscriber reach on existing and new consumer devices
- Accelerate international growth for our services by leveraging global distribution partnerships and integrated marketing, promotion and payment opportunities.
- Drive a quality, localized experience for international users.
- Innovate on the user, device and partner lifecycle to drive incremental discovery, signup, engagement and retention.
- Influence the evolution of partner platform roadmaps to benefit and support our rich user experiences
About the Job
As the Principal Product Manager, Distribution Platforms, your job is to lead the D&D product organization with the mission to:
- Develop and execute a multi-year product roadmap for integrating Disney streaming services into service offerings from TV, Internet and Mobile operators worldwide.
- Ensure our apps can reach every device that can deliver material subscribers and value with a consistent user experience.
- Integrate sales, on-boarding, and engagement customer journeys with our partner device platforms to lift customer acquisition and engagement.
- Leverage partner platform-specific features like voice, search, discovery and targeting tools to differentially acquire, engage and retain users.
- Negotiate with partners on product requirements to ensure alignment on short- and long-term roadmaps.
- Monitor partner device platforms and authoritatively represent their roadmaps internally.
In success, you would have defined and executed a product roadmap to ensure: that we reach customers on all their favorite devices, that we drive users to discover our content and subscribe to our services on their devices, and that we delight customers throughout their usage lifetime with a rich, consistent, convenient and continuously improving experience. Altogether this would result in material positive business impact, as measured in incremental subscribers and revenue.
About You
You have led international product roadmaps and device integration projects in the OTT devices, Pay TV and/or Wireless/wired operator domain.
You are experienced at negotiating global product requirements and integrations with partners.
You have worked with device manufacturers and/or service operators to deliver consumer devices or products (B2B2C).
Previous work with external partners in advocating for the best customer experience.
You have led innovation on user experiences, and are adept at user-centric, data-driven design, and navigating trade-offs.
You have collaborated effectively with engineering and have defined technical requirements.
Ideally you have previously worked on streaming video, music, or entertainment products.
About Disney Streaming Services
Comprised of the Company’s international business units and various direct-to-consumer streaming services, Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) aligns technology, media distribution and advertising sales into a single business segment to create and deliver personalized entertainment experiences to consumers around the world.
About the Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Disney Streaming Services LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Disney Streaming Services.
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