Sr Product Designer (Commerce/Growth)
Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Posting Title: Sr Product Designer (Commerce/Growth) Req ID:
10140826 Job Description: About the Team On any given day at Disney
Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T), we’re
reimagining ways to create magical experiences for the world’s most
beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for
the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital
products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising
and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or
delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content,
every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to
hundreds of millions of people around the world. The Disney
Entertainment & ESPN (DE&E) Technology Design team thinks
beyond what is possible today. They discover, disrupt, and chart a
course to where our fans and consumers will be next. Design brings
the Disney magic to life by building digital customer experiences
via the entire portfolio of both consumer-facing products and
internal products and tooling. This includes Sports, Entertainment,
News, Streaming and Enterprise Products and Experiences. A few
reasons why we believe you’d love working here: Impact – We are
shaping the future of Disney Entertainment. Our design and research
drive innovation across our entire portfolio, from Disney to ESPN
and beyond, creating magical experiences for audiences worldwide.
Collaboration – Our team includes the industry's most talented
designers, UX engineers, design operations experts, and leaders,
all working together to push the boundaries of creativity and user
experience. Innovation – We pioneer groundbreaking products and
techniques that redefine industry standards, transforming how
audiences engage with sports, entertainment, and news. Design is
centrally responsible for the design supporting all consumer-facing
and business products and tooling for the Disney Entertainment &
ESPN portfolio, including sports, entertainment, enterprise, UX,
creative services and design research. About the Role We are
looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our expanding
Commerce, Data and Identity Design team. This is an opportunity to
collaborate with the very best in design, product and technology to
shape the end-to-end subscriber lifecycle experience across Disney,
Hulu, and Star. As a Senior Product Designer, you will be
challenged to solve our most strategic Growth design problems at
scale for multiple streaming services, focusing on optimizing our
core subscription purchase and retention funnels. You have an
expert ability to understand how a family of unique brands can form
something magical and memorable, while also architecting highly
complex commerce user flows that feel effortless. What you’ll do
Follow and advocate a user-centered, data-driven design process to
clearly understand the motivations and behaviors of the Disney
Streaming user, and design intuitive solutions that help them meet
their goal Partner closely with multi-disciplinary teams, including
research, engineering, product and business to find elegant and
practical solutions Partner with researchers to validate solutions
and practice evidence-based design Lead as a subject matter expert
in your domain for the rest of the design team, providing design
guidance, documenting and socializing best practices Provide
thought leadership to develop the right design strategy, and use UX
methodologies to bring value to the user and the business Rapidly
concept multiple solutions at varied levels of fidelity, from
sketches to wireframes to interactive prototypes, instinctively
knowing the proper level of fidelity required to communicate your
point of view and elicit the right type of feedback for the project
stage Adhere to various design systems and brand guidelines,
ensuring a high-level of quality, establishing a consistent look
and feel throughout the product, and only diverging when the need
is validated Work well autonomously, self-managing and taking full
ownership of your work, from discovery to production, but also able
to take direction and work within parameters Actively participate
in feedback loops from design crits to 1:1s Embrace change and
ambiguity, viewing it as an opportunity not a blocker W ho you are
Driven by the need to meet our users where they are in order to
understand behaviors and motivations, acknowledging that context is
fundamental in designing the right solution that takes a product
from desirable to meaningful Collaborative, working well within a
team environment, while also able to function as an individual
contributor with self-direction and accountability Adaptable and
receptive to design feedback Comfortable speaking with internal
stakeholders, with strong interpersonal skills Deadline-oriented
and efficient, possessing strong time management skills Organized
and detail-oriented, carefully reviewing your work at all stages
Proactive in communicating and documenting project progress,
status, and workload Up-to-date with emerging design trends and
technologies, eager to learn and share with the design team
Required Qualifications & Skills 5 years of experience designing at
consumer-focused tech or media companies Bachelor’s degree in
Design, HCI, or experience in a related field An understanding of
acquisition, conversion, and data-informed design Experience
designing net new features while optimizing existing features for
products at a large, global scale – leveraging rapid prototyping
and an iterative test and learn approach Strong conceptual and
design sense, able to execute across a range of digital platforms
including responsive web, native mobile, and living room devices
Proficiency in crafting and facilitating design thinking workshops
to galvanize cross-functional teams around a shared product design
vision Proficiency in contributing to a living, multi-platform
design system Expert skills in Figma, Sketch, Zeplin, and Adobe
Creative Suite Proficiency with prototyping and animation
(Principle, Framer, Proto.io, After Effects, Lottie) Excellent
written and verbal communication skills Additional Information This
role is based out of New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA The hiring
range for this position in New York, New York is$132,500 - $177,600
per year and in Santa Monica, CA is $126,400 - $169,500 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 Posting Segment: Design Job Posting
Primary Business: Design - Growth Primary Job Posting Category:
User Experience Designer Employment Type: Full time Primary City,
State, Region, Postal Code: Santa Monica, CA, USA Alternate City,
State, Region, Postal Code: USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square Date Posted:
2026-01-23
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