Manager, Data Science

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

Job Summary:

This role reports into the Sr. Manager of Data Science and will be focused on leading all data-driven initiatives related to Disney Advertising’s addressable business. The individual that fills this role will be responsible for managing a team that maintains and develops Disney Advertising’s advanced capabilities. 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 and Duties of the Role:

• Lead a team of Data Scientists, helping to grow and develop individuals’ technical and strategic capabilities, providing hands-on coaching and code review.
• Maintain the team Kanban boards, leading team standups, tracking project progress, and providing executive updates.
• Scope projects, including story development and technical documentation, working with the Data Strategy team to scope and track cross-team initiatives.
• Oversee our evergreen audience, workstreams domestically and internationally, including delivery of business objectives through cross-team partnership, documentation, and solution development.
• Support the ML operations, identity, and interoperability workstream, providing expert guidance on solution design.
• Be the team center of excellence of MVP solutioning, stepping up to prepare stop-gap solutions for quick wins.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• 8+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree in data science, data engineering or closely related field of study, or 6 years experience with a master’s degree in a closely related field of study
• Strong experience in giving requirements to data scientists.
• Technical experience in the following areas: SQL, Python, Google Cloud, AWS, Snowflake and Airflow.
• Demonstrated sense of ownership and accountability for projects.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling and visualization skills.
• Transform complex data relationships into a consumable and intuitive data model.
• Implement cutting-edge authoring, orchestration, and monitoring tools.
• Innovative thinker capable of operating both in a strategic capacity (big-picture perspective, asks "why") and a hands-on/execution capacity (detail-oriented, conscientious).
• Self-motivated with the ability to work and learn independently.

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