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Company

Original Job Post

The Walt Disney Company · 3 days ago

Sr. Product Manager

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$143K/yr - $191K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Understands technical customer requirements and can articulate them into technical build requirements

Deep empathy for customer requirements - both the goods and the bad

Willing to say no as appropriate when customer asks are not aligned with strategic direction

Uses data to see opportunities and build hypotheses worthy of prioritization

Correlates multiple data dimensions to identify patterns that can be transformed into build requirements

Performs market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features for the relevant product line

Defines strategy, vision, & prioritizes product roadmap

Ensures business rhythm is established that corrals both customer sentiment feedback, as well as customer data that enables prioritization requests and enhancements for the product line

Engages with customer and organizational leadership to deeply understand unarticulated needs, successes, and new opportunities; then conveys that information to the team in a manner that is traceable and useful.

Uses data, strategic direction, and feedback loops, prioritizing high value outcomes first

Uses an Agile framework, specifically with an MVP and iterative approach, partners and collaborates with engineering team to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered; communicates effectively to stakeholders

Brings to bear techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency for the team while promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation

Champions organization-wide processes and best practices related to ideation, delivery, prioritization, and customer engagement

Productively challenges engineering design to ensure customer requirements will be fulfilled

Uses a lifelong learning mentality, knowing the latest best practices and emerging technologies

Exercises good judgment when faced with risk, blockers, or tradeoffs

Communicate expectations to partners, leaders, and customers, and optimally resets expectations as priorities or deliverables shift

Effectively onboards customers and stakeholders to new releases and functionality

Qualification

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Required

Minimum of 5 years of related work experience

Experience in a technical engineering role such as software, data or systems engineering

Experience in technical product or program management

Cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure)

Certification in one or more cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)

Proven experience setting strategic vision, large scale application/data deployments, managing software or data development lifecycles, and resolving issues that impact design, product success, or address future technologies

Ability to work with large data sets for analysis and interpretation of business results

Experienced in SCRUM/Lean Agile frameworks with an MVP/iterative approach

Ability to influence, take calculated risks, make sound business decisions, and resolve concerns as needed

Excellent interpersonal, business development, and communication skills (both written & verbal for both technical and non-technical audiences)

Positive can-do partnership demeanor while working with cross-functional teams and business units

Must be detail oriented, self-organized, and capable of simultaneously prioritizing multiple efforts

Technically adept in multi-cloud strategies & technologies and highly skilled at building strong partnerships that deliver critical organizational outcomes

Proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Senior and Executive Management

Ability to resolve conflict

Prioritizes work effectively, making tradeoffs as necessary

Manages to deliverables.

Ability to synthesize robust and cost-effective technical solutions against customer requirements providing buy versus build decision making

Must be detail oriented and self-organized/motivated

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast-paced environment

Models desired company cultural attributes and inclusive behaviors