Manager, Multi-platform Storytelling - New York, United States - The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)

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About the Role & Team


Our Corporate Communications team owns the development and management of The Walt Disney Company's reputation through communications strategies that support the company's strategic priorities and vision.


What You Will Do

  • Build and maintain a product roadmap for corporate communications.
  • Supervise current product features, bugs, and backlog.
  • Facilitate conversations between technology and multiple business partners to prioritize digital features.
  • Research industry best practices and propose products and features to bring to fruition.
  • Work across various business units to gather information and document processes and requirements for all aspects of a deployment including features/functionality.
  • Based on the product vision and/or highlevel business requirements, identifies, defines, and documents the detailed requirements for product/improvement.
  • Responsible for crossfunctional work that spans business lines using indepth knowledge to guide and influence outcomes.
  • Present requirements for validation to senior level management and all stakeholders.
  • Design Process: Participate in and strongly influence the development project team process, providing and collecting information to ensure product requirements and functionality are being met and addressed with the development team.
  • Participate and understand how developers are working on the project and align with TWDC leadership to make decisions along the way.
  • Closely monitors and coordinates all activities vital for a successful deployment, making tradeoffs, prioritizing and advising impacted parties of any changes.
  • Documentation: Build internal and external user documentation. Identify and detail internal user and process requirements and related solutions through a complete production cycle.
  • Production Readiness: Primary representative for Management in daytoday activities surrounding the development, user acceptance testing and rollout of the product/improvement.
  • Use a journalistic lens to help build and define digital strategy for external and internal distribution platforms.

Basic Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of related work experience.
  • Analytical abilities to drive the underlying need behind enhancement requests.
  • Ability to influence people over whom you do not have direct authority.
  • Strong problemsolving skills, including a confirmed ability to identify, understand, and drive resolution of sophisticated critical issues.
  • Ability to form relationships and collaborate with a wide range of partners from different backgrounds and functions.
  • Experience with Agile software development methodology.
  • Inclusive approach which embraces diversity.
  • Extensive knowledge of SEO and social media practices
  • Knowledge of WordPress and other content management systems, Jira, and Adobe Analytics

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in a digital newsroom or news outlet
  • Certified Product Owner, or equivalent.
  • Agile certifications.

Required Education

  • Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent work experience

Additional Information
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