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About the Role

Product Management is responsible for driving the overall user experience, feature strategies and concepts, and engagement paradigms for Disney Entertainment & ESPN's global portfolio of consumer-facing streaming and digital products. We are looking for a Sr Principal Product Manager, Sports Commerce to drive highly cross-functional commerce initiatives across Disney Entertainment and ESPN, focusing on driving growth and revenue at the intersection of sports fandom and commerce. This individual contributor role has significant scope, influence, and executive visibility, balancing the development of a scalable horizontal commerce platform with the differentiated needs of sports.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end product strategy for sports commerce, identifying the highest-impact opportunities to drive growth across acquisition, monetization, and retention.
Serve as the product point of view for the broader sports commerce roadmap.
Balance platform-scale thinking with vertical-specific needs, ensuring sports use cases are well-served without fragmenting the core commerce stack.
Drive cross-functional execution with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and partner product teams, often without direct authority.
Define clear product vision, problem statements, and roadmaps for initiatives such as sports-related subscription flows and upgrades, bundles, add-ons, and premium access, and retention and re-engagement mechanics for sports fans.
Establish success metrics and measurement frameworks, and own outcomes, not just outputs.
Make principled tradeoffs between speed, impact, complexity, and long-term strategy.
Communicate clearly and concisely with senior leaders, synthesizing complex information into actionable decisions.

Requirements

12+ years of product management or product leadership experience, ideally in consumer media, sports, commerce, or subscription businesses.
Proven ability to lead highly cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.
Strong strategic thinking paired with hands-on execution.
Experience building or scaling commerce, payments, subscription, or monetization platforms.
Deep understanding of consumer acquisition, pricing, and retention dynamics.
Exceptional communication and influence skills; comfortable operating with ambiguity and navigating complex org structures.
Data-driven mindset with experience defining metrics, running experiments, and using insights to drive decisions.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Skills

Product Management
Product Leadership
Consumer Media
Sports
Commerce
Subscription Businesses
Cross-functional Initiatives
Strategic Thinking
Execution
Commerce Platforms
Payments Platforms
Subscription Platforms
Monetization Platforms
Consumer Acquisition
Pricing
Retention Dynamics
Communication
Influence
Ambiguity Navigation
Complex Org Structures
Data-driven Mindset
Metrics Definition
Experimentation
Sports Content
Fandom-driven Products
Platform Product Management
Consumer Experiences
Bundling Strategies
Promotions
Partner Integrations

Location

Glendale, CA, USA
USA - CA - 2450 Broadway
USA - CA - Market St

Work Type

Full time

Experience Level

Sr Principal
12+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

$207,400.00-$278,100.00

Benefits

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.

About the Company

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.