Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization

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.

About The Role

We are seeking an Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization to define and lead the product strategy for how we globally acquire, engage, retain, and monetize customers across multiple brands. This is a high impact, senior leadership role responsible for driving end-to-end product strategy and execution in a dynamic environment, spanning acquisition, plan tiering, upsells, account management, retention, and monetization. This leader will manage and mentor a team of product managers, and shape the future of our growth engine, through a deep understanding of value creation and value capture. They will partner closely with other product teams, engineering, design, data science, marketing, and finance to deliver sustainable, scalable growth.

Responsibilities

• Define Strategy & Vision: Own the long-term growth and monetization strategy across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition to retention and revenue optimization.
• Drive Rapid Execution & Impact: Oversee product roadmaps and delivery, ensuring initiatives drive measurable business and customer impact in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Lead & Grow Team: Build, coach, and scale a high-performing team of product managers, fostering a culture of deep consumer and business understanding, experimentation, learning, and results.
• Balance Value Creation & Capture: Develop innovative offerings that deliver customer value while driving sustainable revenue growth.
• Experimentation & Optimization: Establish a culture of A/B testing, data-driven learning, and rapid iteration across acquisition, conversion, and retention funnels.
• Ecosystem Thinking: Navigate complex ecosystems, understanding incentives and trade-offs across customer, business, and partner needs.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with other product teams, marketing, engineering, design, data, finance, and business development to align on goals and execute effectively.
• Platform Mindset: Deeply understand and influence platform capabilities and technical constraints to scale growth and monetization initiatives globally.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing PM teams at scale.
• Bachelor’s degree
• Proven track record of delivering growth and monetization impact in a subscription, marketplace, or consumer platform business.
• Deep expertise in customer acquisition, plan tiering, upsell strategies, account management, retention, and monetization.
• Strong growth mindset with the ability to set ambitious goals, test hypotheses, and adapt strategies based on insights.
• Technical aptitude to partner closely with engineering and data teams on platform capabilities and system design.
• Experience considering ROI, financial tradeoffs, value creation, and value capture in product decisions.
• Experience in entertainment, media, or adjacent industries strongly preferred.
• Exceptional analytical, storytelling, and executive communication skills.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and leading cross-functional alignment at the executive level.

Benefits

• Lead one of the most critical product portfolios driving the company’s future.
• Shape the growth and monetization strategy at the intersection of entertainment and technology.
• Work with an impact-driven team that values bold thinking, experimentation, and customer obsession.

Pay

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $275,900 to $370,000 per year, and in Glendale, CA is $251,900 to $337,800 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.