Senior Principal Product Manager

The Walt Disney Company

Sr Principal Product Manager overseeing sports commerce strategy and execution for Disney's media portfolio. Driving growth and revenue through cross-functional collaboration and innovative product development.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $227,200 - $304,700 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Establish success metrics and measurement frameworks, and own outcomes, not just outputs.
Make principled tradeoffs between speed, impact, complexity, and long-term strategy.
Communicate clearly and concisely with senior leaders, synthesizing complex information into actionable decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
Bachelor’s degree required.
Nice to Have: 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

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product StrategySubscription ManagementMonetization PlatformsCommerce ScalingMetrics DefinitionExperimentationPricing StrategyRetention MechanicsRoadmap DevelopmentProblem Statement Definition

Soft Skills

Exceptional CommunicationInfluence SkillsHands-On ExecutionNavigating AmbiguitySynthesis of Complex Information

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree