The Walt Disney Company

Executive Director, Data Science

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityCaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $263,900 - $353,900 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build and lead a team of Data Scientists that inform, influence, and support business priorities across projects and platforms using data to validate hypotheses and provide effectiveness/efficiency solutions.
  • Manage the execution of the project roadmap, ensuring project delivery is in-line with business objectives and key results.
  • Approach model and project development from a client-focused process including needs assessment, requirements gathering, prototyping, UAT and partner engagement.
  • Proactively identify opportunities that can benefit from data science modeling and AI applications and manage the execution and implementation for impact.
  • Work effectively across multiple business units with numerous stakeholders to deliver advanced analytics and modeling solutions.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration by developing cross functional partnerships with business units to ensure impactful, positive business outcomes are prioritized.
  • Function as an expert and collaborate with the team to assess how models and methods can be adjusted for better predictive power and accuracy.
  • Lead the development of our predictive algorithms and machine learning applications across different areas with the aim of helping our stakeholders execute better, smarter and faster.
  • Design and implement scalable frameworks for Next Best Action/Offer (NBA/NBO) decisioning, connecting propensity scores to optimal customer interventions.
  • Continuously improve existing and architect and prototype new models, working with data science and cross-functional engineering teams to operationalize models into production.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in advanced mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or comparable field of study
  • 12+ years of related professional experience
  • Demonstrated financial impact via data science applications.
  • Deep knowledge of machine learning algorithms and advanced statistics, specifically time series forecasting, probabilistic models, and decisioning/optimization algorithms.
  • Experience with statistical / ML platforms and modern data ecosystems (e.g., Python, R, Databricks, Spark, PyTorch).
  • Experience with forecasting business metrics, leading indicators and feature importance.
  • Experience making complex and broad predictions based on a vast amount of past and/or present data through the development of statistical and/or machine learning models.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret data and draw conclusions.
  • Outstanding business acumen, collaborative approach and client orientation in addition to strong technical skills.
  • Strong ability to simplify complex analytics into understandable stories and clear recommendations that are easily understood and executable.
Benefits
  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
  • full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemachine learningpredictive algorithmsadvanced statisticstime series forecastingprobabilistic modelsdecisioning algorithmsoptimization algorithmsstatistical modelingfeature importance
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillsbusiness acumencollaborative approachclient orientationcommunication skillsstorytellingcross-functional collaborationleadershipstakeholder engagement