Just wrapped up a 6-week process for a Senior Content Strategist role at Disney Streaming. Posting this because when I was prepping I could barely find any recent intel.
Round 1: 30-min recruiter screen. Pretty standard: tell me about yourself, why Disney, salary range. She was warm but efficient.
Round 2: 45-min with the hiring manager. Half of this was a portfolio walk and half was behavioral. She asked a lot about cross-functional alignment, specifically how I've handled situations where a creative team and a data team disagreed on direction. I had a solid story from a previous job but had to think fast.
Round 3: A written take-home. I had to develop a hypothetical content strategy brief for a fictional Disney+ franchise launch. They gave me 5 days. I spent about 10 hours on it, which honestly felt like a lot for a take-home. The brief was supposed to be 3-5 pages but mine ran 7 and nobody complained.
Round 4: Panel with 4 people. Hiring manager again, a peer content lead, someone from partnerships, and a data analyst. The analyst asked the sharpest questions. Not data-hostile, just rigorous. Wanted to know how I define success for content that isn't purely metric-driven.
Offer came about 10 days after the panel. Accepted it. The process was long but every round felt purposeful, which I can't say about every place I've interviewed.