Lead Data Analyst – Personalization & Experiments

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers; New York (NY); On-site; USD 149,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to drive personalization strategy for Disney+ and Hulu. You will craft data-informed stories, manage cross-silo projects, and translate insights into actions that influence product strategy.

The role requires exceptional coding and communication skills, with responsibility for large-scale analyses, experimentation, and building scalable analytics capabilities across the streaming portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field is required.
• 7+ years of data analytics experience, incl. 3+ years in senior/lead role.
• Advanced SQL and Python for large datasets and notebooks workflows.
• Expertise in experimentation and statistics: hypothesis testing, power, regression.
• Experience with product analytics: user behavior, funnels, feature performance.
• Experience building analyses, dashboards in Looker or Tableau.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end analytical projects with timelines.
• Strategic communication translating findings to technical/business/executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Deep-Dive Research: lead large-scale analyses of product performance and user behavior.
• A/B Testing & Experimentation: design, analyze, interpret personalization experiments.
• Analytics Foundations: partner to improve data quality, datasets, features.
• AI-Enabled Analytics: leverage AI-assisted tools to improve speed and scale.
• Ad Hoc Analysis: investigate issues and answer complex questions using big data.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Advanced Python

Experimentation & statistics

Product analytics

Looker / Tableau

Strategic communication

AI-assisted analytics tools

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or another technical field

Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or another technical field

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Python

SQL

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to drive personalization strategy for Disney+ and Hulu. You will craft data-informed stories, manage cross-silo projects, and translate insights into actions that influence product strategy.

The role requires exceptional coding and communication skills, with responsibility for large-scale analyses, experimentation, and building scalable analytics capabilities across the streaming portfolio.