Lead Data Analyst

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology; New York (NY); On-site; USD 142,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Lead Data Analyst role supporting Disney+ and Hulu personalization strategy within the Product & Technology Analytics team. You will own large-scale analyses of product performance and user behavior, applying statistical modeling, experimentation, and causal inference to surface opportunities and shape product strategy.

You will drive personalization experiment design and execution, covering power analysis, metric selection, SQL/Python analysis, interpretation, and stakeholder recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 7+ years of data analytics experience, including 3+ years in a lead role.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills with large datasets and notebook workflows.
• Experience with experimentation, statistics, hypothesis testing, and causal inference.
• Product analytics experience including user behavior analysis and feature performance.
• Experience building analyses, dashboards, and visualizations in Looker/Tableau.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end analytical projects and communicate with executives.
• Experience building or applying AI-assisted analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Own large-scale analyses of product performance and user behavior using statistical modeling, experimentation, and causal inference.
• Drive personalization experiment design and execution, including power analysis and metric selection.
• Collaborate with product and data engineering to improve data quality and instrument features.
• Advance AI-assisted analytics tools and workflows to increase speed, scale, and quality of analysis.
• Investigate product issues and rapidly answer complex business questions using large datasets.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistical analysis

Experimentation

Product analytics

Data visualization

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Job description

Lead Data Analyst role supporting Disney+ and Hulu personalization strategy within the Product & Technology Analytics team.

Responsibilities

• Own large-scale analyses of product performance and user behavior, applying statistical modeling, experimentation, and causal inference to surface opportunities and shape product strategy.
• Drive personalization experiment design and execution, covering power analysis, metric selection, SQL/Python analysis, interpretation, and stakeholder recommendations.
• Partner with product and data engineering teams to improve data quality, build scalable datasets, and instrument new product features for dependable analysis and reporting.
• Use and help advance AI-assisted analytics tools and workflows to increase speed, scale, and quality of analysis.
• Investigate product issues and analyze user behavior, rapidly answering complex business and product questions using large datasets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or another technical field.
• 7+ years of data analytics experience, including 3+ years in a senior or lead-level capacity.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills, including complex analysis on large datasets, notebook-based workflows, and scheduled analytical jobs.
• Advanced knowledge of experimentation and statistical analysis, including hypothesis testing, power analysis, metric selection, regression, causal inference, test design, and interpretation.
• Product analytics experience, including user behavior analysis, funnels, engagement, and feature performance.
• Experience building analyses, dashboards, and visualizations in Looker, Tableau, or a comparable BI platform.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end analytical projects: define requirements, manage timelines, collaborate with data engineering, and deliver strategic outcomes.
• Strategic communication skills to translate complex findings into clear recommendations for technical, business, and executive audiences.
• Experience building or applying AI-assisted analytics tools and workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in streaming media or subscription-based products.
• Advanced knowledge of Looker.
• Proven ability to manage projects that require new datasets, collaborating with data engineering teams to improve data quality and build foundational datasets for scalable analysis.
• Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or another technical field.

Tech

• SQL
• Python
• Looker
• Tableau

Location & Compensation

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)
• Salary: USD 141,900 - 208,400 per year