Principal Product Manager (Data Platform Governance)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, or Santa Monica, California, United States

Salary: $200,400–$268,700 per year in Seattle; $191,300–$256,500 per year in Santa Monica

Company

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology builds technology products and platforms supporting Disney’s media, advertising, distribution, and consumer media businesses.

What you will do

• Lead product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Platform Stewardship and Governed Data.
• Define governed metrics, semantic standards, catalog metadata, and data lifecycle capabilities across platforms and teams.
• Standardize semantic layers and automate metadata management across Snowflake and Databricks domains.
• Own the product lifecycle from problem definition and PRD development through launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Partner with engineering and data architecture teams to improve metadata coverage, lineage, semantic accuracy, lifecycle controls, and AI provenance.
• Define KPIs such as Metric Reliability Score, semantic layer accuracy, metadata coverage, and catalog adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, with at least 10 years of relevant enterprise software experience.
• At least 6 years of product management experience.
• Expertise in data management, big data and analytics, data warehouses, data governance, metadata management, data catalogs, or semantic layers.
• Experience with data lineage, catalog modernization, lifecycle governance, AI provenance, and agent-driven data consumption.
• Experience governing business metrics across complex data architectures and analytics platforms such as Looker or Tableau.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and Databricks or equivalent enterprise data platforms, plus strong executive communication and cross-functional influence skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, and data scientists.
• Build products and platforms supporting Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, and other media brands.
• Collaborate across Privacy, Legal, Security, Business, Data Analytics, and Engineering.
• Compensation may include a bonus and/or long-term incentive units in addition to medical, financial, and other benefits.