Senior Data Analyst for DTC Sports Analytics

The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Data Analyst for the ESPN Analytics team to turn data into insights that drive ESPN’s direct-to-consumer product strategy. The role is hands-on, building a governed source of truth for app performance metrics and enabling self-serve tools for stakeholders.

You will lead the foundational work streams for ESPN app measurement, ensure data accuracy, and partner with product and engineering on experimentation and KPI governance across teams.

Qualifications

• Degree in an analytical area such as Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of analytics, product analytics, and/or business intelligence experience.
• Advanced SQL — read and write complex analytical queries and reason about aggregation logic.
• Working proficiency in Python for data manipulation, analysis, and pipeline work.
• Practical understanding of data warehousing and dimensional modeling — metric tables are structured, refreshed, and served.
• Applied statistical judgment: baselines, meaningful changes vs noise, seasonality and day-of-week effects.
• Hands-on product experimentation experience — designing and analyzing A/B and multivariate tests.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau) and strong storytelling for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience turning vague requirements into polished final products.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the source-of-truth metric layer for ESPN app performance — headline KPIs, definitions, and caveats.
• Design and maintain pre-aggregated metric tables and serving views in Snowflake and the pipelines that refresh them.
• Build monitoring and decomposition logic to identify real KPI movements and where they are concentrated.
• QA with product engineering to close the analytics QA gap on client releases.
• Build dashboards and self-serve tooling in Looker to reduce ad-hoc asks.
• Analyze multivariate product and behavioral data with SQL and Python; ideate new metrics.
• Partner with product and engineering on end-to-end experimentation and readouts.
• Reconcile ESPN app metrics across teams and align definitions with stakeholders.
• Communicate results through data storytelling to product leadership.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Statistical judgment

A/B testing

Data storytelling

Data visualization

Communication skills

Education

Analytical degree (Math/Stats/OR/CS/Econ)

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Databricks

PySpark

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Data Analyst for the ESPN Analytics team to turn data into insights that drive ESPN’s direct-to-consumer product strategy. The role is hands-on, building a governed source of truth for app performance metrics and enabling self-serve tools for stakeholders.

You will lead the foundational work streams for ESPN app measurement, ensure data accuracy, and partner with product and engineering on experimentation and KPI governance across teams.