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Decision Science Product Manager (Product Engineering)

Job ID 10083900 Location Burbank, California, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted Nov. 22, 2024
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Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

The Disney Decision Science & Integration (DDSI) team provides internal consulting services for clients across The Walt Disney Company including Media Networks (e.g. ABC, ESPN), Studio Entertainment (e.g. The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Theatrical Group), Direct-to-Consumer & International, and Disney Experiences . 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, forming relationships with business leaders, and driving value through the tactical and strategic use of data and analytics. The work requires a combination of analytical approach with hands-on experience in data and programming, and a natural gift for communicating and presenting complex analytical findings. Strong candidates are those with the right balance of technical and business skills that are critical for successful execution of analytics to drive business values

What You Will Do

  • Act as a Company-wide consultant leveraging advanced analytics and complex science models to solve business problems.

  • Build end to end data solution prototypes using different technical tools such as SQL, Python/R, Tableau and others

  • Read and understand complex operational machine learning product source code to document, develop and guide on-going data driven product development efforts

  • Lead projects that drive value, improve business efficiencies, or guide strategy development.

  • Own the vision for analytical systems, be accountable for integrating these systems into real-world business processes, and construct the consolidated product roadmap for future ongoing evolution of these systems.

  • Lead system requirements-gathering, design and develop solutions to meet those requirements, test implementations, lead user training, and measure ongoing performance of the solutions.

  • Be a problem solver; when presented with new challenges, you are encouraged to research and network to find solutions.

  • Be a hands-on project lead who works with SQL, Python, and Tableau to extract data for analysis, seek out answers to business problems, and look for opportunities to automate processes.

  • Proactively connect with technical and non-technical partners, seek to learn and understand, and potentially challenge existing processes in order to continuously seek improved efficiencies.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 7 + years of progressively complex experience in analytical product management

  • Direct experience operationalizing, developing and managing machine learning products

  • Proficiency with data visualization technologies such as Tableau, Power BI

  • Proficiency acquiring, validating, organizing, and manipulating complex and/or large amounts of data

  • Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including ability to partner with others and build consensus in a multi-functional team toward a desired outcome

  • Experience in gaining deep understanding of multiple lines of business with expertise in multiple functional areas

  • Ability to drive projects forward along timeline and product roadmap, independently with minimal oversight, adapting to changing client priorities, business conditions and technical challenges

  • Proficient in a variety of data science methods, scalable infrastructure setup, software development, and system architecture plus a basic understanding of system design / architecture

  • Recognizes potential business development opportunities

  • Ability to seamlessly collaborate across the technical teams building consensus to work as a team

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with the media industry, especially Nelson, television, SVOD, and film

  • Experience with marketing, sales, pricing, or revenue management

  • Experience with financial analytics and automation

  • Experience with internal or external consulting

  • Familiarity with Martech/Adtech and identity solutions (Exchanges, DSP, etc.)

  • Knowledge of DataBricks, AWS, and Postgres

Education

Required Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience

Preferred Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Data Mining, Analytics, Computer Science, Finance, or other quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

  • Master's Degree or equivalent experience


The hiring range for this position in California is $152,200.00 to $204,100.00 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.

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About The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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