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Supporting the Disney Advertising Sales organization within our Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) segment, the Audience Modeling and Data Science team are subject matter experts in each of the following areas:

  • Creating and optimizing audience classification models that enable us to predict and target strategic audience attributes, including brand affinity, purchase behavior, and psychographics
  • Integrating a broad suite of complex datasets, from digital event logs to sporting event metadata, into carefully curated and reusable data models
  • Publishing audience attributes across an array of ad-serving endpoints
  • Working cross-functionally to ensure our data product is aligned with the goals of each strategic sales vertical and the business as a whole


We’re looking for an intellectually curious, business-savvy, analytical powerhouse to join The Walt Disney Company’s DMED segment as a data scientist on the ad sales team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving improvements across DMED’s portfolio of offerings by using data. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, you will develop, drive, and oversee new strategies to ensure the growth of the business and the overall bottom line.
Responsibilities :

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  • Develop new predictive models from prototype to production
  • Combine knowledge of proven statistical methods and business context to critique model performance and optimize to specific success metrics
  • Leverage cloud SQL software and open source tools to wrangle huge amounts of data across dozens of sources into a unified data model
  • Research and evaluate software in the marketplace to improve reliability and stability of our core data product
  • Assist in development and orchestration of processes that egress data to storage repositories and API endpoints
  • Collaborate on rapid prototype MVP (minimum-viable product) solutions for emerging opportunities
  • Translate business language and requirements into technical action items


Basic Qualifications :

  • 2-3+ years experience in data science (preferably in the advertising sales space), data engineering, or statistically-driven technical field
  • Proven ability in predictive analytics, statistical modeling, and model evaluation techniques
  • Strong experience using SQL to transform and summarize data (Spark, Beam, Hadoop, and other big data processing software a plus)
  • Experience in Google Cloud, AWS, or other cloud platforms.
  • Innovative thinker capable of operating both in a strategic capacity (big-picture perspective, asks "why") and a hands-on/execution capacity (detail-oriented, conscientious)
  • Great organization, communication and teamwork skills
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work and learn independently


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Required Education :
B.A. or B.S. (MS, MBA, or PhD a plus) in a quantitative field (Math/Statistics, CS, Engineering, Business, Economics, experimental science, or similar)
Additional Information :
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