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The Walt Disney Company Decision Science Product Consultant in Lake Buena Vista, Florida
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 Consultant that will contribute to work supporting the Disney Media networks. The role will build, sustain, and enhance analytical products designed to answer questions around how the changing Media landscape impacts viewership of Disney content. The Consultant will partner with our clients, vendors, and internal TWDC teams such as Decision Science, Data Integration, and various segment-specific analytics and technology groups to understand business and technical requirements and develop integrated solutions.
A successful candidate will be data-driven and business-minded and will be passionate about creating processes and integrating analyses to solve operational questions. 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 designing solutions that are both explainable and repeatable.
What You'll Do:
Create and support ongoing processes and products focusing on the long-term outlook of content viewership, utilizing analytic models to drive business decisions
Own the development and sustainment of these models, including understanding data needs, acceptance criteria, and success metrics to produce updates tied to major company planning deliverables
Conduct industry analyses and independently draw conclusions from data and apply subject matter expertise to drive forecast validation and model enhancements
Build feature roadmaps and execute against them to incorporate model improvements into ongoing products
Perform data preparation, exploration, and visualization of new viewership measurement sources and metrics
Produce system requirements, user stories, test cases, and acceptance criteria to guide data frameworks, application design/development, and science solutions around incorporating those new metrics into the established structure of existing applications
Collaborate with Media Research teams to identify and build reporting and visualizations to drive insights and decision making
Create documentation around processes and findings to provide transparency and ease of incorporating adjustments
Create and deliver client facing presentations to inform partners of new viewership measurement methodologies and variances against established benchmarks
Required Qualifications & Skills:
Minimum of 3 years of related work experience andxperience and proficiency in Python, SQL (or similar programming languages) and data visualization (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.)
Understanding of fundamental data science methodologies at both technical and applied levels (e.g. forecasting, machine learning, optimization, etc.)
Proficient in scalable infrastructure setup, software development, and system architecture
Ability to effectively communicate and translate the terminology 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 product management roadmaps 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
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Experience with the media industry, especially television and streaming
Experience with internal or external consulting and product management in the media industry
Familiarity with Nielsen and other video measurement solutions
Familiarity with full stack development and agile practices
Strong understanding of advanced analytical methods
Proficiency in automating existing processes
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Job ID: 10088945
Location: Lake Buena Vista,Florida
Job Posting Company: The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)
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