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About

Building the future of
product & data.

I'm an operational and strategy leader who builds clarity from ambiguity. I stand up teams, operating models, and platforms — then deliver value through them.

At Disney Studios Technology, I lead product for the studio's data and AI platform, managing a cross-functional team across product, engineering, and BI. We've driven adoption of self-serve analytics, launched AI tools that save teams hours per week, and reduced operational friction across hundreds of stakeholders. My role is the translation layer between executive strategy and technical execution — making sure the right things get built, adopted, and scaled.

At Taco Bell, I drove CDP adoption across all Yum brands and shipped ML models that drove significant loyalty growth and retention insights. At Capital Group, I launched a 0→1 data platform that achieved full enterprise adoption across a Fortune 50 organization. Earlier in my career I built analytics functions from scratch at growth-stage companies.

I also build — not because I have to, but because it keeps me sharp on the tools reshaping how products get built. Zero to Ship is a gamified learning platform for non-engineers. DashPulse is a real-time dashboard I shipped with vanilla TypeScript. I write about AI strategy and building at The Data Product Agent.

Leadership Philosophy

The best product organizations are built on trust, transparency, and velocity. I lead by establishing clear operating models, investing in people, and creating the conditions where product teams can move fast with confidence. I operate as the translation layer between executive priorities and team capacity — shielding my team from reactive pressure while maintaining strategic alignment.

Ethan Stuart

Role

Product Leadership, Data & AI Platforms

Company

The Walt Disney Company

Education

B.B.A. Finance & Economics — LMU

Newsletter

The Data Product Agent

Expertise

Core competencies

Product Leadership

  • Product Strategy & Roadmap
  • Go-to-Market Execution
  • 0→1 Product Development
  • Platform Management at Scale
  • Executive Stakeholder Management
  • OKRs & Metrics-Driven Decision Making

Data & AI Platforms

  • Enterprise Data Platform Modernization
  • AI/ML Productization
  • Customer Data Platforms
  • Predictive Analytics & Segmentation
  • Data Governance & Lineage
  • Multi-Agentic AI Systems

Technical Proficiency

  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • AWS
  • Neo4j
  • Power BI & Tableau
  • SQL & Python

Organizational Excellence

  • Built & Scaled Product Orgs
  • Agile & SAFe Methodologies
  • Operational Process Optimization
  • Matrixed Organization Management
  • Product Operations Frameworks