Job Summary

The Disney Decision Science and Integration (DDSI) is the Walt Disney Company’s center of excellence for developing and deploying innovative analytics that support decision making for client organizations across The Walt Disney Company (TWDC), including Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (e.g., ABC, ESPN, FX, Studio Entertainment, Disney Theatrical Group) and Parks, Experiences & Products. To drive business value through decision-shaping analytics, DDSI leverages technology, optimization, simulation, statistics and machine learning models to explore opportunities and deploy new analytical capabilities.

The Decision Science Product team within DDSI is looking for a Data Analyst that will contribute to a highly skilled team of experts across business and technical domains. This role will provide operational support to Media Research deliverables, including the application of analytics solutions to the client organization and processes. The team serves as internal consultants which partner with our clients, vendors and internal TWDC teams such as Decision Science, Data Integration, and various segment-specific analytics and technology groups.

The successful candidate will be data-driven and business-minded, and will be passionate about solving business questions through data analysis. In this position, you will transform data into meaningful business insights. The role will include working with analytically minded peers, where you are expected to contribute to and challenge the current knowledgebase. You should enjoy connecting with your teammates and leadership to brainstorm ways to better support business decisions, building data visualization dashboards, and performing data analysis to explain patterns and provide recommendations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support client relationship across one or more projects, through a solid understanding of the business, providing day to day consulting, and collaborating with leadership to communicate with partners
• Work in Python/SQL to perform data preparation, explanatory modeling, forecasting support tool validation and other sustainment tasks
• Independently draw conclusions and surface insights during data exploration, model building, and ad hoc analysis
• Gather business requirements and work with leadership to translate them into actionable processes, technology work flows, and decision science solutions
• Influence smaller project teams by providing guidance on business expectations
• Utilize Tableau to deliver accurate, clear, concise insights and visualizations
• Collaborate with leadership on tasks, prioritization, and decision-making
• Be a problem solver; when presented with new challenges, think critically about the business problem and recommend solutions to leadership
• Automate own and basic client processes where feasible and appropriate
• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation

Basic Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience and proficiency in Python, SQL (or similar programming languages) and data visualization (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.)
• Understanding of basic data science methodologies at both technical and applied levels (e.g. forecasting, machine learning, optimization, etc.)
• Ability to effectively communicate and translate the languages of analytics and business applications
• Familiarity with basic software development and testing
• Ability to collaborate across both highly technical and non-technical teams to complete objectives
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to contribute to client presentations to senior leadership
• Familiarity with building internal project management documentation and tracking towards delivery
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team
• Knowledge of basic database structure
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to rapidly changing business environment

How To Stand Out:

• 1-2 years of experience in product management role
• Experience with the media industry, especially television and streaming
• Experience with internal or external consulting
• Familiarity with Nielsen and other video measurement solutions
• Strong understanding of advanced analytical methods
• Proficiency in automating existing processes

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Data Mining, Analytics, or other quantitative field; Master's Degree preferred