PrincipalDigitalProduct Manager
This role is a senior individual contributor within the Walt Disney Attractions Japan (WDAJ) Technology & Digital team, serving as astrategic product management lead and trusted liaisonto Oriental Land Company (OLC) across both Theme Park and Cruise businesses.
Positioned at the intersection ofproduct strategy, technology integration, and cross-organizational alignment, this role supports OLC in shaping high-quality digital and technology-enabled guest and cast experiences. It plays a critical role inbridging DisneyExperiences’global digital ecosystem with OLC’s locally owned products and operations, ensuring alignment with Disney standards while respecting OLC’s ownership model.
This positiondoes not hold final decision-making authority, product ownership, ordeliveryaccountability. All such responsibilitiesremainwith OLC’s business and technology leadership.
Instead, the role focuses onenabling high-quality product decisions, clarity, and alignment, through structured product leadership, technical insight, and strategic advisory.
Strategic Product Leadership & Advisory
Guideand influenceproduct vision, roadmap development, prioritization, and trade-offs to support OLC decision-making.
Global Product Integration & Alignment
Connect OLC efforts with Disney’s global platforms, standards, and best practices to drive consistency, reuse, and operational efficiency.
Cross-Organizational Liaison
Act as a key interface between OLC teams and DisneyExperiencesstakeholders globally (US, Europe, Asia), ensuring alignment across product, engineering, data, design, and operations.
Clarity & Decision Enablement
Structure complex business and technical topics into actionable insights, including dependencies, risks, and trade-offs for executive stakeholders.
A senior product leader who excels at:
Definingproduct vision, goals, and success metrics
Structuringand refineroadmaps, sequencing, and priorities
Translatingbusiness needs intoclear product and system requirements
Connectingwith Disney global SMEs across domains
Promotingproduct management standards, artifacts, and review practices
Aligning totechnical standards, platforms, and experience principles
Identifyingopportunities for reuse, integration, and consistencyacross regions
Dependencies across systems and teams
Risks, constraints, and trade-offs
Alignment between business, engineering, and vendor teams
Product strategy, scope, and requirements
Feature definitions and experience flows
Delivery plans and prioritization approach
Disney and OLCtechnology and digitalstakeholders
Engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams
External partners and vendors
Disney’s product capabilities, workflows, and dependencies
Disney’stechnology and platform landscapes
Integration opportunities across ecosystems
Emerging technologies (AI, connected services, digital platforms)
Industry trends in theme parks, cruise, and hospitality
Global Disney product practices and innovations
Note:This position does not directly own product delivery, backlog execution, or final prioritization decisions.