Sr Analyst, Data Governance

Disney Disney · Media · Burbank, CA +1

The Sr. Analyst, Data Governance will maintain and evolve the enterprise consumer data taxonomy and catalog, ensuring data accuracy, quality, and compliance with policies and regulations. This role supports the Customer Data Governance program by promoting standardization, stewarding metadata, and monitoring data usage to drive business outcomes while honoring guest privacy.

What you'd actually do

  1. Developing, managing, and optimizing our audience taxonomy and data catalog to support enterprise activation and measurement.
  2. Promote standardization of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) across enterprise and business unit partner initiatives.
  3. Implementing and refining processes for creating and approving new attributes and audience segments while ensuring alignment with privacy, consent, and regulatory requirements.
  4. Stewarding metadata accuracy, consistency, and compliance in collaboration with Data Governance, Marketing, Analytics, and Privacy partners.
  5. Monitoring usage of consumer data and driving continuous improvement and adoption of trusted, data quality certified audience segments.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years in data governance, taxonomy/metadata management, audience data, or CRM/activation in a complex enterprise.
  • Hands-on experience curating data catalogs and business glossaries (Alation or similar); strong metadata writing and organization skills.
  • Working knowledge of audience creation, custom audiences/lookalikes, and platform policies; comfort with concepts like consent gating, DNSMI, VPPA, and COPPA compliance.
  • Familiarity with customer data segmentation strategies (e.g., lifecycle, geo, engagement, affinity).
  • Experience collaborating with technical, legal and business stakeholders.
  • Excellent documentation and communication skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience in media, entertainment, or a related industry.
  • Practical understanding of US privacy landscape (e.g., CCPA/CPRA) and records/information management principles.
  • Exposure to Snowflake, Hightouch (or similar audience activation tools), and Tableau; ability to read basic SQL is a plus.
  • Experience partnering with Legal/Privacy, Data Quality, and activation teams on cross functional launches.

What the JD emphasized

  • privacy
  • consent
  • regulatory requirements