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Principal Product Mgr

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Glendale, CA, USA
180K-253K Annually
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Glendale, CA, USA
180K-253K Annually
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Lead multi-year strategy and delivery for Licensing Financial and AI ecosystems within Disney Consumer Products. Architect roadmaps, drive executive alignment, oversee end-to-end product development, prioritize portfolios, and manage global change adoption for AI/LLM-driven automation and integrated finance systems.
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Job Posting Title:

Principal Product Mgr

Req ID:

10151063

Job Description:

Principal Product Manager – Licensing Financial and Artificial Intelligence Systems

About the Role & Team

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:

The Principal Product Manager serves as a strategic architect and visionary leader for the Licensing Financial and Artificial Intelligence ecosystems across the global Disney Consumer Products (DCP) segment. This role transcends day-to-day execution to orchestrate multi-year technical roadmaps, driving high-stakes alignment between global executive stakeholders and technology partners to unify business objectives under a singular enterprise vision. As a primary catalyst for innovation, you will lead comprehensive change management frameworks and ecosystem-wide transformations, ensuring the organization is structurally and culturally prepared to leverage next-generation AI platforms and automated financial workflows.

A successful candidate brings a macro-global perspective, architecting scalable solutions that harmonize regional nuances with centralized operational excellence. You will define and evangelize "forward-thinking" technical standards, assessing the long-term feasibility of emerging technologies while ensuring processes are repeatable, high-integrity, and value-driven. Operating as a resilient change agent, you must possess the executive presence to influence at every level—from deep-dive engineering sprints to executive briefings—thriving in a fast-pasted environment where you transform ambiguity into strategic business opportunities.

What You’ll 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.

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $188,400 to $252,600 per year and in Orlando, FL is $179,500 to $240,600per 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.

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Tech Delivery, Platforms, & Core Systems

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Management

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Orlando, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave

Date Posted:

2026-06-10
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