Laura Barnes
The Walt Disney Company Product Manager
Laura is a product manager at Disney Streaming Services. She most recently launched Disney+ in Latin America via partners, and is on the Star+ Brand Product team.
During her time with the TMR program, she worked on the following projects: innovating shopDisney within Consumer Products, producing an AI-driven perceptual engine within Imagineering R&D, productizing patents with inventor Lanny Smoot in Imagineering R&D, and prototyping on an innovation team on the Studio side. Prior to the TMR program, she attended Harvard Business School, MBA interned with the App Store at Apple, and worked at The New York Times for 3 years in UX Research and Product Management. She recently moved from the LA offices (Disney HQ) to New York (Disney Streaming HQ), and she is loving her tiny apartment in the West Village.