Associate Data Scientist
応募 後で応募 Job ID 10138200 勤務地－都市 ニューヨーク, ニューヨーク州, アメリカ合衆国 勤務地－国 Disney Entertainment Television 掲載日 2025/12/22仕事内容:
Would you like to be part of the interdisciplinary team providing vital insights into the rapidly evolving media landscape for Disney’s suite of television networks (ABC, ESPN, etc.) and direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming services? Join our Data & Analytics Operations team, whose mission is to develop, support, and improve analytics operations by delivering data-driven applications that drive efficiencies across the Research, Insights & Analytics group in Disney Entertainment (DE).
We highly value statistical modeling and machine learning approaches—including cross-media measurement and activation across linear, streaming, and digital platforms. We balance advanced methods with pragmatic, classical ones that focus on strong business context, merging the science with the craft. Additionally, we incorporate and deploy modern GenAI-assisted workflows to accelerate analysis and documentation within established privacy and governance standards.
Job Summary:
As a Data Scientist on the Disney Entertainment (DE) Research, Insights & Analytics team, you’ll develop and improve predictive models that inform advertising and audience dynamics across Disney’s television networks and DTC streaming services (Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+). Primary focus will be viewership and impressions forecasting—built in partnership with Linear and Digital forecasting teams—to optimize Ad Sales yield and support the DTC and Linear P&Ls. You’ll extend this work into cross-media measurement and activation as a whole, delivering clear communications of model accuracy, results, and business impact.
You’ll contribute to production-level data-science pipelines and monitoring of models (clean, well-tested Python/SQL; versioning, and QA) and help enhance analysis of complex data for partners in Research, Content, Ad Sales, and Forecasting. You’ll responsibly leverage and deploy AI workflows to improve quality, speed, and depth of analysis—validating outputs before use.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling: Design and develop predictive and generative model pipelines by leveraging classical data science and modern AI/ML to impact and measure KPIs; analyze drivers of change and implement improvements that enhance accuracy and stability of cross-media measurement and advance analytics.
Data Quality: Ensure data is clean and trustworthy; investigate and escalate anomalies; perform robust feature engineering and data prep across linear and streaming sources; contribute to source-of-truth definitions.
Applications and Communications: Build visualizations and applications to share results with business stakeholders in an easily digestible, sustainable, and automated manner; Analyze data to identify patterns and uncover opportunities.
Collaboration: Partner closely with peers and business stakeholders to identify and unlock opportunities. Collaborate with other data teams to improve capabilities around data modeling, data platforms, and data visualizations.
Process Improvement: Drive innovation by exploring new statistical techniques and brainstorming ways to optimize existing infrastructure and make processes even better.
Operations: Apply Agile principles via participating in standups, sprint planning, writing business requirements documents, and retrospectives; Participate in an “Open Source” learning environment where sharing, documenting, teaching, and collaborating with others is the culture.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications:
Proficiency in SQL and Python (e.g., pandas, numpy, scikit-learn) for data analysis.
Experience designing and implementing predictive models (e.g., regression, time series, decision trees, XGBoost, clustering).
Experience working with Git and collaborative development practices.
Experience with data visualization tools and applications (e.g. Tableau, plotly, Streamlit)
Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
User/Client orientation; strong interpersonal skills that build trust across teams.
Comfort with messy data and flexibility in dynamic environments.
Experience responsibly using AI-assisted workflows with validation.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with ETL, data pipeline management, and cloud infrastructure for managing large amounts of data (e.g. AWS, PySpark, Snowflake, Airflow, Databricks);
Experience using web frameworks (Django) and JavaScript libraries (ReactJS, JQuery) to build professional frontend and backend web applications focused on user experience;
Experience building internal tools that help teams operationalize analytics (e.g., small Streamlit/Gradio utilities, scheduled batch jobs).
Exposure to managed LLM/AI services inside analytics platforms is a plus.
Required Education:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Econometrics, Cognitive Science, or equivalent substitute.
The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $102,100 to $136,900 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.
Disney Entertainment Television について:
Disney Entertainment Televisionは、The Walt Disney Companyの有名コンテンツブランドを扱う部門であり、Disney+, Hulu、Starといった自社ストリーミングプラットフォーム、ならびに放送網やケーブルネットワーク向けにオリジナルのエンターテイメント番組およびニュース番組を制作しています。 ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations, Disney Branded Television, Freeform, FX, Hulu Originals, National Geographic ContentおよびOnyx CollectiveのほかDisney Television Studiosを含む豊富なポートフォリオを持ちます。Disney Television Studiosは20th Television, 20th Television Animation, ABC SignatureおよびWalt Disney Television Alternativeなどで構成されています。300以上の番組を通じて、あらゆるジャンルの作品を年間4,500時間も放送するDisney Entertainment Television。その創造的な作品は革新的なストーリーテリングの最前線を進み、オーディエンスを魅了し、多方面から高い評価を得ています。2023年には、その卓越した作品が評価され、デイタイム、プライムタイム、ニュース＆ドキュメンタリー、チルドレン＆ファミリーなど、さまざまな部門で163ものEmmy®賞を受賞しました。
The Walt Disney Company について:
The Walt Disney Companyは、その子会社・関連会社とともに、多様性あふれる国際企業として、Disney Entertainment、ESPN、Disney Experiencesの3事業を柱に、ファミリー向けエンターテインメントとメディアの世界をけん引しています。1920年代に小さなアニメ・スタジオとしてスタートしたDisneyは、今日のエンターテインメント業界において卓越した存在となりました。ディズニーは今後も、子供から大人まで、ご家族のだれもが楽しめる一流の物語や体験を生み出し続けます。Disneyのストーリーやキャラクター、体験は、世界中のあらゆる場所の消費者やお客様に届けられています。当社は40カ国以上で、従業員とキャストメンバーが一丸となり、世界的にも地域的にも歓迎されるエンターテインメント体験を創出しています。
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