Manager, Data Analytics

The Disney Music Group (DMG) is the music hub for TWDC, encompassing all aspects of music commercialization and marketing: recorded music (Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records), Disney Music Publishing, and Disney Concerts. DMG distributes music both physically and digitally, and also licenses music throughout the world in various forms of media including television, print, gaming, and consumer products.

Job Summary:

The Manager, Data Analytics is responsible for Disney Music Group’s data, reporting and quantitative research, and serves as the data analytics partner to cross-functional teams, providing insights to inform planning and decisions across the DMG business areas

As a member of the Data & Analytics team, the Manager, Data Analytics will lead the development of analytics and tools that enable a deep understanding of user behaviors within music marketing, discovery, and consumptions channels

                                                                                                    

The right person for this role has a deep curiosity and aptitude in data with applied knowledge of measurement and statistics. The role will be expected to translate business questions into analytical and technical methodologies, driving results through analysis of large transaction level datasets. The role will need to communicate effectively, distilling insights into concise and compelling data-driven stories, and socialize broadly with audiences across levels and functions

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Drive pragmatic approaches to solving complex business problems across recorded music, publishing, and concerts. Lead development of analytical frameworks, guiding data, measurement, and analysis methods. Build automated, scalable, repeatable, and integrated analysis using modern big data architectures in data ecosystems such as Databricks, Snowflake, Google Big Query

• Support data-informed business strategies through deep quantitative analysis. Apply advanced analytics techniques (data mining, statistical analysis, machine learning) to identify patterns and uncover opportunities in behavioral data. Develop and deliver presentations to communicate results

• Be the analytics partner to cross-functional stakeholders across the Disney Music Group. Dive into complex, large-scale, high-dimensional data from disparate sources utilizing tools such as PySpark or advance SQL to answer ad-hoc business questions. Support partners with data insights through the business process stages, including pitching, planning, and execution

• Lead the reporting for company priorities. Develop, integrate, and institutionalize metrics that measure success. Conduct campaign, product, content and audience analysis

• Partner with Engineering and Product teams to execute on data projects, contributing to solution discovery, design, build and QA

• Lead and mentor a team, setting priorities to maximize impact in the organization

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years data analytics experience
• 2+ years management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field including Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other related quantitative field.  
• Experience delivering end-to-end analytics projects
• Experience in applying supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, or k-means clustering to derive, validate, and quantify conclusions from data
• Experience documenting data requirements, rules and, assumptions
• Proficient in using SQL and scripting tools such as PySpark/Python/R
• Proficient in data exploration and visualization tools
• Experience data mining in distributed systems such as Databricks/Google Big Query/Snowflake
• Experience manipulating large, transaction level datasets and interpreting data trends from multiple disparate data sources
• Experience developing analytical software that scale analyses
• Experience communicating analytical concepts to a wide range of audiences
• Experience influencing and partnering with stakeholders across the organization
• Strong time management with ability to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading data-centric projects across a wide cross-functional landscape
• Experience building, managing and motivating teams in strategic support functions
• A passion for music and/or entertainment industry data
• Familiarity with music streaming services (Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, YouTube), social media platforms (TikTok, FB/Instagram) and emerging technologies (digital assistants/voice)
• Master’s degree in an analytical field including Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other related quantitative field

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $164,492 - $220,660 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.