Sr Principal Product Manager - Sports Commerce

About the role

The Sr Principal Product Manager, Sports Commerce will lead end-to-end product strategy for sports commerce initiatives across Disney Entertainment and ESPN. This role will sit at the intersection of sports fandom and commerce, focusing on driving growth and revenue.

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
• Retention and re-engagement mechanics for sports fans

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—you can zoom out to define vision and zoom in to ship.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.

Skills

• Experience working with sports content or fandom-driven products.
• Background in platform product management and consumer experiences supporting multiple verticals.
• Familiarity with bundling strategies, promotions, or partner integrations.
• Experience operating in large, matrixed organizations.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$227,200 to $304,700 per year.

Schedule

Not specified.