Summary
Sylvia Cipra is a Senior Product Manager with eight years blending media editorial judgment and product leadership across TV, digital, and OTT platforms, currently shaping content management tools at The Walt Disney Company. She has led cross-functional launches with partners like Apple and Facebook and negotiated multi-million dollar licensing deals with major studios, proving proficiency at the intersection of content, technology, and business operations. Sylvia’s background spans content acquisitions, production operations for unscripted series, and technical implementations for news brands including National Geographic and ABC News, giving her a rare end-to-end view of content lifecycle. She combines project management rigor with product sensibility—designing workflows, metadata systems, and distribution processes that scale across properties. Passionate about disruptive media technologies and diverse storytelling, she prefers mission-driven organizations that leverage platform influence for social good. A former front-end web development student who started in grassroots news production, she brings both hands-on technical curiosity and newsroom instincts to product strategy.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Graduation: Leverage - Influence - Lead: Leadership Program for Univision Women, Certificate of Graduation: Leverage - Influence - Lead: Leadership Program for Univision Women at Smith College
Journalism; Latin American Studies; Minor in Business of Entertainment Media & Technology, Journalism; Latin American Studies; Minor in Business of Entertainment Media & Technology at New York University
Front-End Web Development, Front-End Web Development at Wyncode Academy
Spanish, English