Decision Science Product Manager

Disney Disney · Media · Lake Buena Vista, FL +1

Product Manager for Decision Science at Disney, focusing on leading product strategy, developing outcome-based roadmaps, and creating requirements for advanced analytics and complex science models. The role involves building data solution prototypes, understanding and guiding machine learning product development, and owning the vision for analytical systems. Responsibilities include integrating these systems into business processes, gathering system requirements, developing solutions, testing, training, and measuring performance. Requires experience in operationalizing ML products, using tools like SQL, Python/R, and Tableau, and understanding data science methods, infrastructure, software development, and system architecture.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the product strategy, creating outcome based roadmaps and developing requirements.
  2. Act as a Company-wide consultant leveraging advanced analytics and complex science models to solve business problems.
  3. Build end to end data solution prototypes using different technical tools such as SQL, Python/R, Tableau and others
  4. Read and understand complex operational machine learning product source code to document, develop and guide on-going data driven product development efforts
  5. Lead in the development of products that drive value, improve business efficiencies, or guide strategy development.

Skills

Required

  • 7 + years of progressively complex experience in analytical product management
  • Direct experience operationalizing, developing and managing machine learning products
  • Experience using different technical tools such as SQL, Python and/or R
  • 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

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • operationalizing, developing and managing machine learning products
  • Proficiency acquiring, validating, organizing, and manipulating complex and/or large amounts of data
  • 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

Other signals

  • product strategy
  • outcome based roadmaps
  • requirements development
  • advanced analytics
  • complex science models
  • data solution prototypes
  • machine learning product
  • analytical systems
  • product roadmap
  • system requirements-gathering
  • data science methods
  • scalable infrastructure setup
  • software development
  • system architecture