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About the Role

The Disney+ Product Design team seeks a Lead Product Designer to shape the future of streaming entertainment across Living Room devices, Web, and Mobile platforms. This role is for a design leader who thrives at the intersection of storytelling, technology, and user-centered design, crafting engaging experiences in a competitive streaming landscape. As a Lead Product Designer, you will influence strategy and execution, setting a vision for user experiences that enhance discovery, personalization, playback, and engagement, aligning design decisions with business goals. You will partner with Product and Engineering to deliver scalable solutions, mentor designers, and elevate design standards. This position requires a veteran designer with a deep understanding of building intuitive, elegant, cross-platform experiences, balancing creativity with rigor, and grounding decisions in research, analytics, and experimentation.

Responsibilities

Define and lead product vision, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Research to set design direction across content discovery, personalization, playback, and cross-platform experiences.
Design for scale and global reach, delivering solutions for millions of users worldwide while balancing cultural, technical, and accessibility considerations.
Elevate user engagement by translating data insights and research into experiences that drive retention, viewing time, and customer satisfaction.
Lead design execution by creating process flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that ensure usability and craft.
Champion experimentation, partnering with product teams to design and analyze A/B and multivariate tests to validate assumptions and optimize outcomes.
Mentor and inspire designers at multiple levels, fostering growth, collaboration, and excellence.
Drive operational excellence by ensuring thorough and consistent documentation and specifications for seamless handoff to engineering and QA.
Advocate for user needs in strategic conversations, ensuring ethical, delightful, and impactful solutions.

Requirements

Proven ability to lead end-to-end design initiatives, set vision, and drive alignment across teams.
Experience mentoring designers, providing critique, and fostering a culture of craft and collaboration.
Deep understanding of streaming and subscription ecosystems, with expertise in discovery, personalization, engagement, and retention.
Ability to translate business objectives and audience insights into coherent product strategies.
Strong foundation in interaction, visual, and motion design principles, with a history of shipping high-quality experiences at scale.
Portfolio showcasing multi-platform design work (CTV, Web, Mobile) with measurable impact on user experience and business outcomes.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Demonstrated success building strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, and Research.
Proficiency in user-centered design methodologies, usability testing, and experimentation frameworks (A/B, MVT, etc.).
Ability to balance qualitative insights and quantitative data to inform design decisions.
Minimum of 7 years of related work experience.
Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience.

Skills

Figma
Modern prototyping tools
Design systems
Accessibility best practices
Platform-specific guidelines
Interaction design principles
Visual design principles
Motion design principles
User-centered design methodologies
Usability testing
Experimentation frameworks (A/B, MVT)

Location

Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Santa Monica, CA, USA
1200 Grand Central Ave, CA, USA
Market St, CA, USA
925 4th Ave, WA, USA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Lead
Veteran
Minimum of 7 years of related work experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Equivalent work experience

Salary/Compensations

$138,900.00 to $186,200.00 per year (Los Angeles, CA)
$152,100.00 to $203,900.00 per year (San Francisco, CA)
$145,400.00 to $195,000.00 per year (Seattle, WA)

Benefits

Bonus
Long-term incentive units
Full range of medical benefits
Full range of financial benefits
Other benefits

About the Company

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization building the technological backbone for Disney’s media business.
The team combines technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability.
They are Storytellers, Innovators, Creators, Builders, Entertainers, and Engineers.
They advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points for The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio, serving millions globally.
Technologists design and build products and platforms powering Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses.
Disney’s technology and products, including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, and ABC News, connect fans with the company’s brands and stories.
The company develops groundbreaking products and techniques, shaping industry norms and solving complex technical problems.
Design is responsible for all consumer-facing and business products and tooling for the Disney Entertainment & ESPN portfolio.
Work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and the world’s most beloved stories.