Senior Product Manager II, Ads Data - The Walt Disney Company
Santa Monica, CA
About the Job
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
As a Senior Product Manager II on the Ad Platform Data team at Disney, you will play a key role in shaping the future of digital advertising through data. You will drive the strategy and execution for Ads Data products, ensuring that advertising event data, metadata, and analytics capabilities power reporting, billing, measurement, and optimization across The Walt Disney Company. Your work will be instrumental in enabling real-time insights, accurate revenue reporting, and advanced ad performance analytics that support both internal teams and external advertisers.
The ideal candidate has deep experience in advertising data platforms, understands the complexities of ad event pipelines, measurement, and data infrastructure, and thrives in a fast-moving environment where data quality and precision drive business decisions. If you are passionate about building the next generation of advertising technology, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
+ Lead and executethe strategy for Ads Data products,which include includingevent data pipelines, metadata schemas, operational data stores, and reporting APIs that poweradvertising and business intelligence needs.
+ Own the domain model for ads Event and Metadata data, ensuring that advertisinglog-level data, impression tracking, and campaign performance metrics are well-structured, documented, and consumable by data teams.
+ Define and execute the roadmap for key advertising data initiatives, balancingdata ingestion, ETL optimization, query performance, and data governance to supportbothreal-time and batch reporting.
+ Collaborate with Ad Measurement, Research, and Data Science teams to ensure advertising data is accurately modeled andfeeds critical use cases such as attribution, audience insights, forecasting, and ML-based optimization.
+ Work with upstream teams to capture and standardizead event data from DSPs, ad servers, and other inventory sources, ensuring consistency across platforms.
+ Partner with Ad Sales, Business Intelligence, and Finance to align on revenue reporting, campaign tracking, and forecasting accuracy.
+ Ensure compliance with Data Privacy, Governance, and Security teams, ensuring thatadvertiser data is managed in accordance with regulations and company policies.
+ Drive product execution by prioritizing backlog items thatimprove data pipelines, reduce latency, enhance ad performance insights, and optimize costs.
+ Champion a data-driven culture within the Ad Platform team, leveraging analytics to measure product success and guide future investment.
What You Bring
+ 7+ years of Product Management experience, preferably inAdTech, MarTech, or digital advertising platforms.
+ Bachelor's degree in [preferred field], or relevant years of experience.
+ Deep understanding ofadvertising data infrastructure, includingevent processing, real-time data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and cloud-based data lakes/warehouses.
+ Strong knowledge ofad event tracking, log-level data processing, and reporting for ad campaign performance, revenue analytics, and attribution models.
+ Proficiency inSQL and data query optimization, with experience working withSnowflake, Presto, BigQuery, or similar.
+ Strong technical documentation and diagramming skills to definedata schemas, API structures, and ETL workflows.
+ Experience working acrossAd Server data, DSPs, SSPs, and Ad Measurement systems.
+ Ability to communicate effectively acrossEngineering, Business, Data Science, and Executive stakeholders to translate complex ad data challenges into business impact.
+ Passion forAds Data, Measurement, and Analytics—with an ability to drive innovative solutions in a rapidly evolving digital advertising landscape.
The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA, Washington D.C., and Chicago, IL is $152,200 to $204,100 per year, in New York and Seattle, WA is $159,500 to $213,900 per year, and in San Francisco, CA is $166,800 to $223,600 per 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 ID: 10110695
Location: Santa Monica,California
Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
As a Senior Product Manager II on the Ad Platform Data team at Disney, you will play a key role in shaping the future of digital advertising through data. You will drive the strategy and execution for Ads Data products, ensuring that advertising event data, metadata, and analytics capabilities power reporting, billing, measurement, and optimization across The Walt Disney Company. Your work will be instrumental in enabling real-time insights, accurate revenue reporting, and advanced ad performance analytics that support both internal teams and external advertisers.
The ideal candidate has deep experience in advertising data platforms, understands the complexities of ad event pipelines, measurement, and data infrastructure, and thrives in a fast-moving environment where data quality and precision drive business decisions. If you are passionate about building the next generation of advertising technology, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
+ Lead and executethe strategy for Ads Data products,which include includingevent data pipelines, metadata schemas, operational data stores, and reporting APIs that poweradvertising and business intelligence needs.
+ Own the domain model for ads Event and Metadata data, ensuring that advertisinglog-level data, impression tracking, and campaign performance metrics are well-structured, documented, and consumable by data teams.
+ Define and execute the roadmap for key advertising data initiatives, balancingdata ingestion, ETL optimization, query performance, and data governance to supportbothreal-time and batch reporting.
+ Collaborate with Ad Measurement, Research, and Data Science teams to ensure advertising data is accurately modeled andfeeds critical use cases such as attribution, audience insights, forecasting, and ML-based optimization.
+ Work with upstream teams to capture and standardizead event data from DSPs, ad servers, and other inventory sources, ensuring consistency across platforms.
+ Partner with Ad Sales, Business Intelligence, and Finance to align on revenue reporting, campaign tracking, and forecasting accuracy.
+ Ensure compliance with Data Privacy, Governance, and Security teams, ensuring thatadvertiser data is managed in accordance with regulations and company policies.
+ Drive product execution by prioritizing backlog items thatimprove data pipelines, reduce latency, enhance ad performance insights, and optimize costs.
+ Champion a data-driven culture within the Ad Platform team, leveraging analytics to measure product success and guide future investment.
What You Bring
+ 7+ years of Product Management experience, preferably inAdTech, MarTech, or digital advertising platforms.
+ Bachelor's degree in [preferred field], or relevant years of experience.
+ Deep understanding ofadvertising data infrastructure, includingevent processing, real-time data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and cloud-based data lakes/warehouses.
+ Strong knowledge ofad event tracking, log-level data processing, and reporting for ad campaign performance, revenue analytics, and attribution models.
+ Proficiency inSQL and data query optimization, with experience working withSnowflake, Presto, BigQuery, or similar.
+ Strong technical documentation and diagramming skills to definedata schemas, API structures, and ETL workflows.
+ Experience working acrossAd Server data, DSPs, SSPs, and Ad Measurement systems.
+ Ability to communicate effectively acrossEngineering, Business, Data Science, and Executive stakeholders to translate complex ad data challenges into business impact.
+ Passion forAds Data, Measurement, and Analytics—with an ability to drive innovative solutions in a rapidly evolving digital advertising landscape.
The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA, Washington D.C., and Chicago, IL is $152,200 to $204,100 per year, in New York and Seattle, WA is $159,500 to $213,900 per year, and in San Francisco, CA is $166,800 to $223,600 per 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 ID: 10110695
Location: Santa Monica,California
Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Source : The Walt Disney Company