Director, Decision Science Products

This is a Full Time Job

Location: Burbank, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; Orlando, Florida, United States

Job Summary:

At Disney, we're storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies, and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we're constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

Job Summary:
The Disney Decision Science & Integration (DDSI) team provides internal consulting services for clients across The Walt Disney Company including Disney Entertainment (Media Networks, The Walt Disney Studios, D+ and Hulu), and Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products. The DDSI team sits at the intersection of business strategy, advanced analytics, and technology integration to help our partners explore opportunities for analytics, shape business decisions and drive value. Our work includes conceptualizing new solutions, solution design and development, implementation (and integration with business processes), and ongoing business support.

DDSI seeks forward-thinking team members who are passionate about learning our client businesses and driving value through the tactical and strategic use of data and analytics. The work requires a combination of analytical mindset with hands-on experience in data and programming, and a natural gift for communicating and presenting sophisticated analytical findings.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable analytic solutions to effectively inform its product, content and intellectual properties portfolio. Develop solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Drive innovative solutions and automated dataflow and processes that deliver efficiencies across the enterprise.
• Lead team focused on new technologies such as process automation, complex predictive modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision to improve how we do business.
• Collaborate across business functions and manage changing priorities. Develop relationships with high-level executives (e.g., division CFOs, SVPs, EVPs) and key business stakeholders to define business problems and develop integrated data and analytics strategies to address the needs of quickly changing industries.
• Work with team to define requirements across product, data, and engineering to craft a suite of data tools and projects-including tracking specs, data processing engines, experimentation framework and platforms, machine learning platforms, predictive modeling and data visualization and dashboard tools
• Maintain expertise in current and emerging methodologies in the field of decision science and data analytics, including best practices in analytics and changes in the landscape and proactively assessing next steps and new opportunities.
• Be a strategic thought partner to help clients develop growth initiatives and achieve revenue/OI maximization goals and to lead application of decision science and analytics to solve business challenges.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years progressive leadership experience in consulting, product management or the application of advanced decision science and analytics.
• 5+ years managing high performing analytics teams.
• 5+ years finance, accounting, or management consulting

Preferred Experience
• 5+ years in consumer products, content development and production, television, or film
• Exceptional understanding of cutting-edge analytics, entertainment content, technologies, and consumer behavior.
• Proficiency with Python, SQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau, PowerBI and other commonly used analytics, data management and business intelligence applications

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $198,932 to $266,860 per year and in New York, NY is $208,362 to $279,510 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.