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Comprised of Disney's international media businesses and the Company's various streamingservices, the Disney Media Entertainment & Distribution segment aligns technology, content anddistribution platforms to expand the Company's global footprint and deliver world-class,personalized entertainment experiences to consumers around the world. This segment isresponsible for The Walt Disney Company's direct-to-consumer businesses globally, includingthe ESPN+ sports streaming service, programmed in partnership with ESPN; Disney+; and theCompany's ownership stake in Hulu.
The Senior Product Manager, Video Player & Experiences will play an integral role in theproduct vision and development of ESPN's video playback technology & experiences acrossmultiple platforms including mobile, web and connected devices. This role is responsible forhelping to create a world-class video playback experience that delights our fans. Our mission isto be the first place fans choose to experience sports related media.Within 3 months, you will:- Learn how our product operates, and how our tools and platform translate to what the customer sees.
- Establish relationships with teams and stakeholders integral to video playback and end user experience (Media Engineering, Tooling & Instrumentation teams, Player teams, etc.).
- Take ownership of a key project in the video player space.
- Get access to various reporting tools and dashboards that you'll need to be successful.
- Begin writing requirements, designing experiments, and working with an engineering team to build our product.
- Build a deep understanding of our customers, why and where they consider ESPN, and how and why they do/do not consume media on ESPN.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team including engineering, design, user research and data science to build a compelling product roadmap and facilitate the execution of that roadmap to ship impactful product features that delight our customers and increase ESPN's reach.
- Identify areas to invest in as a product team.
- Continuously capture insights from customer feedback, experiments, research, andanalysis to iterate on the roadmap and improve the product.
- Be an advocate for our customers and the team's mission internally in the company andpresent our work and roadmap to internal and external partners.
- Participate in interviews and hiring to expand the team.
- Become a subject matter expert on various aspects of the playback experience andproduct.
- Lead at least one major project that creates impact for the business and users.
- Writing Product Requirements
- Data Analysis and Experimentation
- Responsible for end-to-end ownership of large projects
- Helps oversee delivery based on daily project schedules and coordinates activities across diverse disciplines
- Develops detailed requirements, feature definitions and implementation plans
- Makes recommendations to improve product(s) or processes utilizing user research and/or design concepts
- Identifies problem spaces for potential product solutions
- 7+ years of professional experience in product management, or a similar role
- Organized approach to identifying, understanding, and solving customer problems
- Experience with hypothesis-driven experimentation and deriving meaningful insights from data
- Track record of collaborating with a large and varied group of cross-functional teams and partners to tackle ambiguous problems and make forward progress
- Ability to think strategically and craft a compelling product vision
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong ability to multi-task and context-switch with ease, in a fast-paced and ever-evolving organization.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience
- Previous experience working in AGILE
- Previous experience working with streaming media, data distribution or internal platforms with dynamic data ingestion
- Previous experience working on client side media infrastructure
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