Disney is shuffling its streaming commerce and data teams as a top executive exits.
Ajay Arora, Disney’s SVP of product management and engineering, is leaving the company on April 30, product and tech chief Adam Smith told employees late last week in a memo obtained by Business Insider.
Arora “has decided to pursue a new opportunity” after nearly five years, Smith told Disney and ESPN product and tech staffers. The product exec led teams overseeing commerce, growth, and account management for Disney streaming.
Before joining Disney, Arora was the director of product innovation and growth at Netflix for four years. He was also a VP of product management at the image-sharing site Imgur and Amazon’s Audible.
As Arora steps down, Smith said Disney is reorganizing its Commerce, Data, and Identity team to integrate its work “more tightly” into other parts of the business.
The Commerce & Identity Product group will join the product management team to help make streaming “the digital centerpiece of Disney’s relationship with fans.”
The Data Product & Engineering group will move under the ads platform EVP, Tony Donohoe, to work more closely with his organization.
Read the full memo from Disney’s product and tech chief about Arora’s departure and the associated reorganization here:
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