Manager, Product Software Engineering - Frontend

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the JavaScript Disney Media Player engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own execution of the team roadmap, balancing feature delivery, technical investment, platform reliability, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership for the player stack, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices in partnership with senior engineers.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, TPM, and platform teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality customer experiences.
• Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, continuous learning, and data-driven decision making to improve playback quality, performance, and reliability across devices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including significant experience leading and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of hands‐on, production experience with high-quality JavaScript and modern web application development.
• Experience building or supporting media playback technologies in web‐based or connected‐device environments.
• Experience leading teams through the full software delivery lifecycle, including development, release, and operational support of consumer‑facing applications.
• Experience owning application availability, reliability, and performance in production environments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to grow, mentor, and develop engineers.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams, influence stakeholders, and manage cross-functional dependencies.
• Demonstrated success building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with streaming media concepts and technologies (MSE/EME, HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, CMAF).
• Experience delivering playback or streaming video experiences at scale.
• Experience with connected TV, OTT, or streaming device platforms.
• Background partnering closely with Product, Design, and Platform teams on complex, highly visible products.
• Demonstrated success managing and supporting teams distributed across multiple time zones.
• Experience using data, metrics, or experimentation to inform technical decisions and improve user experience.