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The Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning is a senior strategic leader responsible for informing global content partnership strategy through insights, analysis, and cross‑portfolio perspective. Reporting into the VP, Partnerships Strategic Planning, this role leads a high‑performing team and serves as a trusted thought leader for the entire DTC Content & Planning & Partnerships organization, ensuring partner decisions, portfolio investments, and our increasingly complex content partner models translate into durable value at scale.
This leader owns the development of cohesive strategic narratives and opportunity framing across the full spectrum of content partnerships, working closely with the other Directors and members of the Partnerships Strategic Planning team to build through-lines between the businesses. Operating at the intersection of strategy, content and finance, the Director translates complex market dynamics and partnership structures into clear insights, investment frameworks, and executive‑ready decision support.
The role plays a critical connective function across the entire partnership organization, aligning internal stakeholders and external signals into a single, coherent view of partnership performance, risk, and opportunity, while ensuring that content partnership strategies are grounded in financial rigor, market intelligence, and long‑term portfolio value creation. Success in this role requires the ability to operate as both a strategic architect and a strong people leader, combining intellectual rigor with practical execution. The ideal candidate brings deep fluency in SVOD economics and content partnership models, paired with the judgment to balance near‑term opportunities against long‑term portfolio value.
Responsibilities include:
Global Partner Strategy
- Define the global partnership and add-ons portfolio strategy, structuring holistic, multi-region and multi-component strategies across global content portfolio opportunities for Disney+/Hulu and connecting individual partner opportunities across regions, business verticals, and deal types to broader DTC priorities, subscriber growth objectives, and regional business plans.
- Develop a unified global partnership narrative, identify cross-market opportunities, and maintain a consolidated partnerships and DTC portfolio repository, including a clear narrative of strategic intent, history, performance, and forward-looking opportunities.
- Lead partner opportunity and risk assessments, evaluating strategic, financial, and operational impacts across current and prospective partners.
- Provide partner insights and decision support, leveraging internal performance data, market intelligence, and research to inform deal strategy and prioritization.
- Lead partner and contract forensics, identifying points of alignment through spend concentration, portfolio dependency, and relative strategic value.
- Own partnerships market intelligence, including competitive dynamics, distribution trends, and emerging partnership models across DTC competitors.
P& L Assessment & Strategic Analysis
- Lead end-to-end business case development for opportunistic and emerging content initiatives, including opportunity identification, framing, sizing, and executive-level recommendations.
- Own P&L impact assessment and financial sizing for initiatives, translating content and distribution concepts into clear financial outcomes.
- Develop and maintain content licensing models and analytical frameworks to evaluate incremental value, trade-offs, and long-term implications of content & partnerships decisions.
- Build rapid-response scenario models and leadership POVs for enterprise-level strategy shifts (e.g., windowing, distribution changes, cost allocations).
- Produce strategic reporting and executive narratives that clearly articulate risks, opportunities, and decision pathways for senior leadership forums.
Budget Planning
- Lead global budget planning and investment oversight, including tracking investment levels, forecast movements, and financial impacts to inform near- and long-term decision-making.
- Build and operate a portfolio-level investment management framework that connects bottom-up content strategies with top-down financial targets and investment scenarios.
- Partner closely with Content Finance and CP&A teams to ensure alignment between content strategy, capital allocation, and operating plans.
- Serve as the GE content liaison for CSLO, Content Finance, and valuation teams for our 1P portfolio, ensuring consistency in assumptions, methodologies, and strategic intent.
Influence & Team Leadership
- Act as a strategic advisor to senior Content/Partnerships and DTC leadership, influencing decisions through insight, clarity, and structured analysis.
- Drive alignment across highly matrixed teams, influencing without authority and translating competing priorities into coherent strategic outcomes.
- Lead and develop a high-impact team, setting clear priorities, goals, and success metrics aligned to DTC and Content Partnerships objectives.
- Ensure work is well-structured, clearly synthesized, and executive-ready, with consistent throughlines across analyses, narratives, and recommendations.
- Coach and mentor team members to deepen financial acumen, and executive-level storytelling, raising the overall quality and influence of the team’s output.
- Foster a culture of intellectual curiosity, ownership, and collaboration, encouraging proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Actively partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure the team is effectively embedded in Content, Finance, Strategy, and Distribution workflows, maximizing leverage and impact.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree or relevant equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, business operations, investment analysis, or related roles, ideally within media, streaming, or consumer subscription businesses.
- Experience as a people leader, with proven history of developing, leading, or mentoring others.
- Deep understanding of SVOD economics, content licensing models, and DTC financial frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience owning complex business cases, P&L analyses, and investment decisions.
- Strong synthesis and executive storytelling skills (memos and slides) with the ability to distill complexity into actionable insights.
- Must have excellent presentation and communication skills in different forums.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate as a strategic thought partner.
- Proficient in GSuite and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in highly cross-functional, fast-moving environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working closely with content, finance, and distribution organizations in a streaming or media context and familiarity with wholesale, platform partnerships and hybrid distribution models strongly preferred.
Disability accommodation for employment applications
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
Disclaimer
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The hiring range for this position in California is $207,600.00 to $278,400.00 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.
This position is with Hulu, LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Direct to Consumer.
To learn more about Disney's guidelines on the use of AI for candidates, click here.
Hulu, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION FOR EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Having technical issues? View the FAQs for help.
Job Requirements
The Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning is a senior strategic leader responsible for informing global content partnership strategy through insights, analysis, and cross‑portfolio perspective. Reporting into the VP, Partnerships Strategic Planning, this role leads a high‑performing team and serves as a trusted thought leader for the entire DTC Content & Planning & Partnerships organization, ensuring partner decisions, portfolio investments, and our increasingly complex content partner models translate into durable value at scale.
This leader owns the development of cohesive strategic narratives and opportunity framing across the full spectrum of content partnerships, working closely with the other Directors and members of the Partnerships Strategic Planning team to build through-lines between the businesses. Operating at the intersection of strategy, content and finance, the Director translates complex market dynamics and partnership structures into clear insights, investment frameworks, and executive‑ready decision support.
The role plays a critical connective function across the entire partnership organization, aligning internal stakeholders and external signals into a single, coherent view of partnership performance, risk, and opportunity, while ensuring that content partnership strategies are grounded in financial rigor, market intelligence, and long‑term portfolio value creation. Success in this role requires the ability to operate as both a strategic architect and a strong people leader, combining intellectual rigor with practical execution. The ideal candidate brings deep fluency in SVOD economics and content partnership models, paired with the judgment to balance near‑term opportunities against long‑term portfolio value.
Responsibilities include:
Global Partner Strategy
- Define the global partnership and add-ons portfolio strategy, structuring holistic, multi-region and multi-component strategies across global content portfolio opportunities for Disney+/Hulu and connecting individual partner opportunities across regions, business verticals, and deal types to broader DTC priorities, subscriber growth objectives, and regional business plans.
- Develop a unified global partnership narrative, identify cross-market opportunities, and maintain a consolidated partnerships and DTC portfolio repository, including a clear narrative of strategic intent, history, performance, and forward-looking opportunities.
- Lead partner opportunity and risk assessments, evaluating strategic, financial, and operational impacts across current and prospective partners.
- Provide partner insights and decision support, leveraging internal performance data, market intelligence, and research to inform deal strategy and prioritization.
- Lead partner and contract forensics, identifying points of alignment through spend concentration, portfolio dependency, and relative strategic value.
- Own partnerships market intelligence, including competitive dynamics, distribution trends, and emerging partnership models across DTC competitors.
P& L Assessment & Strategic Analysis
- Lead end-to-end business case development for opportunistic and emerging content initiatives, including opportunity identification, framing, sizing, and executive-level recommendations.
- Own P&L impact assessment and financial sizing for initiatives, translating content and distribution concepts into clear financial outcomes.
- Develop and maintain content licensing models and analytical frameworks to evaluate incremental value, trade-offs, and long-term implications of content & partnerships decisions.
- Build rapid-response scenario models and leadership POVs for enterprise-level strategy shifts (e.g., windowing, distribution changes, cost allocations).
- Produce strategic reporting and executive narratives that clearly articulate risks, opportunities, and decision pathways for senior leadership forums.
Budget Planning
- Lead global budget planning and investment oversight, including tracking investment levels, forecast movements, and financial impacts to inform near- and long-term decision-making.
- Build and operate a portfolio-level investment management framework that connects bottom-up content strategies with top-down financial targets and investment scenarios.
- Partner closely with Content Finance and CP&A teams to ensure alignment between content strategy, capital allocation, and operating plans.
- Serve as the GE content liaison for CSLO, Content Finance, and valuation teams for our 1P portfolio, ensuring consistency in assumptions, methodologies, and strategic intent.
Influence & Team Leadership
- Act as a strategic advisor to senior Content/Partnerships and DTC leadership, influencing decisions through insight, clarity, and structured analysis.
- Drive alignment across highly matrixed teams, influencing without authority and translating competing priorities into coherent strategic outcomes.
- Lead and develop a high-impact team, setting clear priorities, goals, and success metrics aligned to DTC and Content Partnerships objectives.
- Ensure work is well-structured, clearly synthesized, and executive-ready, with consistent throughlines across analyses, narratives, and recommendations.
- Coach and mentor team members to deepen financial acumen, and executive-level storytelling, raising the overall quality and influence of the team’s output.
- Foster a culture of intellectual curiosity, ownership, and collaboration, encouraging proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Actively partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure the team is effectively embedded in Content, Finance, Strategy, and Distribution workflows, maximizing leverage and impact.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree or relevant equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, business operations, investment analysis, or related roles, ideally within media, streaming, or consumer subscription businesses.
- Experience as a people leader, with proven history of developing, leading, or mentoring others.
- Deep understanding of SVOD economics, content licensing models, and DTC financial frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience owning complex business cases, P&L analyses, and investment decisions.
- Strong synthesis and executive storytelling skills (memos and slides) with the ability to distill complexity into actionable insights.
- Must have excellent presentation and communication skills in different forums.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate as a strategic thought partner.
- Proficient in GSuite and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in highly cross-functional, fast-moving environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working closely with content, finance, and distribution organizations in a streaming or media context and familiarity with wholesale, platform partnerships and hybrid distribution models strongly preferred.
Disability accommodation for employment applications
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
Disclaimer
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The hiring range for this position in California is $207,600.00 to $278,400.00 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.
This position is with Hulu, LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Direct to Consumer.
To learn more about Disney's guidelines on the use of AI for candidates, click here.
Hulu, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION FOR EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Having technical issues? View the FAQs for help.
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Target companies with existing partnership functions
Companies that already have a partnerships team are far more likely to sponsor. They understand the role's value, have sponsored before, and won't need convincing that a Director of Strategic Partnerships justifies immigration investment.
Frame your network as a business asset
Sponsorship decisions are easier when you can show measurable deal value. Quantify your existing partner relationships, pipeline contributions, and revenue tied to past partnerships to make the ROI case concrete for hiring managers and legal teams.
Position yourself for L-1A if you're transferring internally
If your current employer has a U.S. office, an intracompany transfer on an L-1A visa bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely. You need one year of managerial experience abroad within the past three years to qualify.
Consider the O-1A for candidates with industry recognition
Directors who have spoken at major industry conferences, led high-profile partnerships, or received professional awards may qualify for the O-1A. This visa has no lottery and no annual cap, making it a strong alternative to H-1B.
Negotiate sponsorship during the offer stage, not after
Raise visa requirements before accepting an offer. Once compensation terms are agreed and the offer is signed, revisiting sponsorship becomes harder. A direct question about the company's H-1B history signals preparedness, not risk.
Use Migrate Mate to find roles with verified sponsorship history
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Director of Strategic Partnerships qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS generally accepts the role when the job description requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as business, marketing, or a related discipline. Generic postings that list any degree as acceptable can create complications, so the employer's job description language matters significantly during the H-1B visa petition process.
What visa types do employers typically sponsor for this role?
H-1B is the most common path, but Directors of Strategic Partnerships also see L-1A sponsorship for intracompany transfers, O-1A for candidates with demonstrated industry recognition, and TN visas for Canadian and Mexican citizens in qualifying business categories. The right visa depends on your nationality, prior employment history, and the employer's existing legal infrastructure.
Which industries sponsor the most Director of Strategic Partnerships roles?
Technology companies, particularly SaaS and enterprise software businesses, sponsor this role most frequently. Financial services, healthcare technology, and digital media companies also have strong sponsorship rates. Series B and later-stage startups with legal budgets tend to move fastest because they've established immigration processes for prior hires. Browse verified opportunities on Migrate Mate to identify active sponsors by industry.
How does seniority affect H-1B approval odds for this title?
Senior titles like Director actually help. USCIS scrutinizes whether the role genuinely requires a specific degree, and Director-level partnerships roles typically involve complex contract negotiation, cross-functional strategy, and executive stakeholder management that supports the specialty occupation argument. Approval rates are generally solid when the employer's legal team drafts a strong support letter tied to the role's actual responsibilities.
Can I switch employers on an H-1B as a Director of Strategic Partnerships?
Yes. H-1B portability lets you start working for a new sponsor as soon as the new employer files a transfer petition, as long as your prior H-1B was approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer files a fresh Form I-129. Director roles are common enough that most experienced immigration attorneys handle these transfers routinely, and approval turnaround with premium processing is typically two to three weeks.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Director Of Strategic Partnerships jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.