Principal Product Mgr

About the role

This role sits in the Disney Consumer Products (DCP) - Licensing Technology organization within Disney Experiences (DX), a division of The Walt Disney Company (TWDC). The Principal Product Manager will report to the Senior Manager, Technology.

What You Will Do

• Architect Strategic Vision: Define and champion the multi-year strategic vision, overarching strategy, and long-term roadmap for key product portfolios or platform capabilities within Disney Consumer Products (DCP) - Licensing Technology. Influence organizational strategy and investment decisions across DX.
• Define Ecosystem Success: Define and champion comprehensive success metrics and KPIs for entire product ecosystems, driving a culture of data-driven strategic optimization, experimentation, and continuous improvement at a strategic level.
• End-to-End Product Ownership and Delivery: Directly lead the full-cycle development of mission-critical DCP products, moving beyond oversight to personally manage ideation, technical requirements, and delivery for the most complex systems to drive business value.
• Lead Portfolio Prioritization: Lead portfolio-level prioritization efforts, navigating complex trade-offs, managing dependencies across multiple initiatives, and aligning diverse stakeholders to critical strategic outcomes.
• Cultivate Executive Relationships: Cultivate and leverage executive-level relationships with a broad spectrum of strategic partners including product, engineering, data, design, commercial, and customer support leadership, acting as a trusted advisor and consensus builder.
• Strategic Governance: Translate complex global finance, revenue accounting, and AI goals into a high-level technology roadmap. You will negotiate priorities among executive stakeholders to ensure a balance between innovation and fiscal integrity.
• Change Management & Adoption: Orchestrate the global launch and change management plans for next-generation features. You will oversee the creation of training programs to drive product adoption across all regions.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive Product Management experience, with at least 5+ years at a Senior or Lead Product Manager level driving the end-to-end delivery of complex, enterprise-grade software
• Proven track record of leading the strategy, launch, and scaling of multiple complex products or large-scale platforms through multi-year strategic roadmaps that delivered significant business impact on a global scale.
• A minimum of 2 years of direct experience developing and deploying custom AI solutions using LLMs to automate business processes or improve business outcomes in enterprise environments
• Exceptional ability to translate ambiguous customer and business needs into well-defined, scalable product strategies and actionable documentation.
• Financial Systems Mastery: Expert-level experience with highly integrated accounting and finance applications (revenue, forecasting, ERP).
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, capable of influencing executive stakeholders and technical leadership at all levels of the organization.
• Strong leadership presence with the proven ability to mentor, inspire, and lead product managers, influencing without direct authority.
• Expertise in driving a data-driven culture, utilizing analytics and experimentation to inform and validate strategic product decisions.
• Agile Mastery: Expert knowledge of Agile/Scrum; ability to lead cross-functional projects and teams in a rapidly changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of the Licensing and Consumer Products industry
• Master’s degree or relevant professional certifications are a strong plus.

Education

• BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.