Executive Director, Product, Growth & Monetization

The Walt Disney Company

Executive Director of Product defining growth and monetization strategy for Disney's media products. Managing product teams and collaborating across business functions to drive customer acquisition and retention.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $275,900 - $370,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementcustomer acquisitionmonetization strategiesA/B testingdata-driven learningaccount managementretention strategiesfinancial tradeoffssystem designgrowth strategies

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachinganalytical skillsstorytellingexecutive communicationadaptabilitycross-functional collaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvinggrowth mindset

Certifications

Bachelor's degree