Decision Science Product Manager

Job ID 10137493 Location Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States / Burbank, California, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted Dec. 15, 2025

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Job Summary:

The Disney Decision Science and Integration (DDSI) team leverages advanced technologies, data analytics, and scientific approaches such as optimization and statistical modeling to build innovative tools that shape business decisions across The Walt Disney Company. We support Disney Entertainment (ABC, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney+, Hulu), ESPN, Disney Experiences (Theme Parks, Cruise Line, Consumer Products, DVC), and Corporate Finance with strategic applications that enable data-driven decision-making.

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 an analytical approach, 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.
Identify business problems, lead system requirements-gathering, design and develop solutions in partnership with the business to meet those requirements, test implementations, lead user training, and measure ongoing performance of the solutions.
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.
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 projects that drive value, improve business efficiencies, or guide strategy development.
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
Be a hands-on project lead who works with SQL, Python, and visualization tools like Tableau to extract data for analysis, seek out answers to business problems, and builds automations for efficiency and new functionality.
Be a problem solver; when presented with new challenges, you are encouraged to research and network to find solutions.

Required Qualifications & Skills

7 + years of progressively complex experience in analysis, analytical product management, or analytics engineering roles
Direct experience operationalizing, developing, and managing machine learning products
Proficiency with data visualization technologies such as Tableau or Power BI
Proficiency acquiring, validating, organizing, and manipulating complex and/or large amounts of data
Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including ability to partner with technical and non-technical teams and build consensus 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, and software development, plus a basic understanding of system design / architecture
Recognizes potential business development opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with the consumer products industry, especially games, licensed products, and/or retail.
Experience with meta-data management, data taxonomy design, data modeling
Experience with internal or external consulting
Experience with GenAI and agentic solution design and operation
Knowledge of AWS, Snowflake, and/or modern enterprise LLM platforms

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 or scientific field, or equivalent experience.
Master's Degree or equivalent experience

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The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $155,700 to $208,700 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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