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About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is a diversified global entertainment and media enterprise operating in segments including Disney Parks, Experiences and Products; Entertainment (ABC, Hulu, Disney+); and ESPN. Industry: Entertainment & Media
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Director, Product Management - Payments & Fraud joins the Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology team to lead the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for payments and fraud across global streaming businesses including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. The role involves managing a team of product managers focused on involuntary-churn reduction, payment processing, new payment methods, and fraud prevention. You will build and grow a high-performing team while fostering an experimentation-first culture using large-scale A/B testing, ML models, and deep analytics to improve authorization rates and conversion. Key responsibilities include partnering with engineering, data science, finance, and legal teams to deliver measurable business outcomes like increased operating income. Required expertise includes the payments ecosystem, including processing, routing, retries, recovery, and risk management, alongside a strong command of statistics and hypothesis testing for global merchant environments.
Develop and own the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for payments and fraud across global streaming platforms.
Manage a team of product managers covering payment processing, retries, recovery, and risk management.
Drive measurable business outcomes including involuntary churn reduction, increased operating income, and higher conversion rates.
Lead large-scale A/B testing and data-driven experimentation to optimize authorization rates and fraud prevention.
Act as the primary subject matter expert on payments and fraud for senior leadership and external partners.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams like engineering, finance, and legal to negotiate trade-offs and deliver product goals.
Manage relationships with payment processors, card networks, issuers, and alternative payment providers.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent work experience.
12+ years of product management experience, including subscription/recurring payments for a major global merchant.
3+ years directly managing and developing product managers.
Deep expertise in the payments ecosystem, including processing, routing, authorization optimization, retries, recovery, new payment methods, and fraud risk management.
Proven track record of driving measurable business outcomes through large-scale experimentation and data-driven decision-making.
Strong command of statistics and experimentation, including hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and large-scale A/B testing.
Ability to lead cross-functional teams and negotiate trade-offs across diverse partners and geographies.
Knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to payments (preferred); experience with streaming video industry (preferred).