Manager, Data Analytics - Engagement

Disney Disney · Media · Santa Monica, CA +1

Manager of Data Analytics focused on understanding and acting on engagement trends and audience behavior for Disney's Direct to Consumer business. The role involves decomposing platform engagement, investigating behavioral changes, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive content strategy and portfolio optimization. Requires strong analytical skills, SQL expertise, team leadership, and experience with large datasets and visualization tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Diagnose complex trends and develop analytical frameworks to measure drivers of engagement.
  2. Communicate analysis results to a wide array of business stakeholders with varying technical expertise from operational teams to executive audiences, both in oral presentations and via written reports.
  3. Partner closely with business stakeholders (Content Partnerships, Content Programming and Merchandising, Product/Engineering, Business Operations, Marketing, etc.) to understand business problems and determine methodologies to derive actionable insights.
  4. Proactively monitor and stay up-to-date on nuanced data changes, including the introduction of new data that could impact the accuracy and interpretation of streaming analytics reports and dashboards.
  5. Maintain a deep understanding of the underlying data pipelines and transformations to quickly identify, troubleshoot, and communicate any potential data integrity issues or anomalies.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Data Wrangling
  • ETL Design
  • Data Analysis
  • Business Strategy
  • Problem Simplification
  • Data Distillation
  • Data-driven Narratives
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Data Visualization Tools (Tableau, Looker)
  • Team Leadership

Nice to have

  • Streaming Media Industry Experience
  • Direct-to-Consumer Product Support
  • Subscription-based Product Support

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of strategic analysis to inform product or business decision making with a track record of working closely with Executive leadership.
  • 5+ years of hands-on analytical work experience with SQL with 3+ years leading high performing teams of technical analysts.
  • Expertise working with extremely large, disparate data sets and using SQL for data wrangling, ETL design, and analysis.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to apply business strategy to data analysis and recommendations.
  • Skilled at simplifying complex problems, distilling data, and constructing compelling data-driven narratives to guide decision making.
  • Very comfortable translating highly technical analyses into easily understandable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Expertise with data exploration and data visualization tools like Tableau or Looker.
  • Ability to effectively communicate key findings and strategic recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.