Role overview
About The Role & Team
Disney Entertainment’s (DE) Cross-Media Measurement and Advanced Analytics organization drives data strategy, cross-platform content measurement, marketing effectiveness, and inventory forecasting. The team delivers advanced analytics and actionable insights to support content, monetization, and audience development.
The
Data and Analytics Operations
team, part of this organization, applies advanced machine learning techniques to deliver a suite of analytics solutions—descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive—built on strong data management and interoperability practices. These capabilities enable business goals across content production, marketing, and monetization.
What you'll work on
- Data Pipeline Development: Build and optimize scalable pipelines using orchestration tools (Airflow/Dagster) to ingest, transform, and deliver cross-media datasets.
- Feature Engineering & Data Prep: Create high-quality features from petabyte-scale data, manage metadata, and optimize storage/performance in Snowflake or Databricks.
- Model Development: Design, train, and deploy ML models for audience identity, look-alike modeling, and cross-platform measurement; write clean, testable Python/SQL code and containerize workloads via Docker/Kubernetes.
- MLOps & Monitoring: Implement CI/CD, model versioning, automated testing, and drift detection; build dashboards and alerts to ensure reliability and data quality in production.
- Collaboration & Experimentation: Gather requirements, run experiments, and translate findings into actionable product enhancements for analytics, product, and editorial teams.
- Compliance: Apply GDPR/CCPA principles, enforce PII safeguards, and maintain documentation for audit readiness.
- Continuous Learning: Research emerging ML techniques, share best practices, and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
What we're looking for
- Master’s or PhD in Applied Math, Computer Science, Computational Science, Operations Research, or Data Science.
The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $123,000.00 - $165,000.00 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.