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Location New York, New York, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States

The Disney Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Sports Analytics team is looking for a Data Analyst who will help to measure, understand, and take action on key rights deals and audience behavior that impacts the sports portfolio of The Walt Disney Company. This group supports teams within the ESPN business unit as well as key partners from DTC to generate insightful, compelling, and strategic analyses that help make a difference. The right person for this role has exceptional analytical capabilities, thrives in a fast-paced environment, loves problem-solving, is a good communicator, and is passionate about sports.

This role will support the evaluation of Sports performance across the ESPN Digital Properties, Disney+ Hulu and Venu.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analyzes to drive valuable business insights, using internal analytics tools and SQL to access and manipulate multivariate data
• Build data visualizations and multi-faceted dashboards that convey key engagement metrics, significant trends, and relationships across multiple data sources within the sports domain
• Ideate and develop new metrics and analytical approaches, measuring sport trends and audience behavior for both tactical and strategic decision-making
• Effectively communicate results through compelling data storytelling across the organization, both in oral presentations and via written reports
• Provide ad-hoc analysis support to identify trends that drive business performance

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Marketing, or related field
• At least 3 years of Data Analytics experience
• Advanced analytical skills (including proficient ability to read/write complex SQL queries) with the ability to apply business strategy to data analysis and recommendations
• Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret first and third party information
• Experience manipulating large data sets and interpreting data trends using a multitude of disparate data sources and tools
• Experience with data exploration and data visualization tools like Tableau or Looker
• Strong analytical and technical skills to tackle issues, analyze the cause, quickly come-up with possible solutions, detail the changes, and communicate organizational impact
• Demonstrable experience in detailing the data requirements, data strategy, data rules (standardization, cleansing, and validation)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the streaming media industry and/or supporting a direct-to-consumer or subscription-based product
• Experience presenting and contributing to data stories that are shared with key business partners
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or R is a plus