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:
Education:
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.
