
Associate Data Scientist at DISNEY
Disney,
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Process Improvement: Drive innovation by exploring new statistical techniques and brainstorming ways to optimize existing infrastructure and make processes even better.
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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:
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Proficiency in SQL and Python (e.g., pandas, numpy, scikit-learn) for data analysis.
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Experience designing and implementing predictive models (e.g., regression, time series, decision trees, XGBoost, clustering).
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Experience working with Git and collaborative development practices.
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Experience with data visualization tools and applications (e.g. Tableau, plotly, Streamlit)
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Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
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User/Client orientation; strong interpersonal skills that build trust across teams.
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Comfort with messy data and flexibility in dynamic environments.
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Experience responsibly using AI-assisted workflows with validation.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience with ETL, data pipeline management, and cloud infrastructure for managing large amounts of data (e.g. AWS, PySpark, Snowflake, Airflow, Databricks);
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Experience using web frameworks (Django) and JavaScript libraries (ReactJS, JQuery) to build professional frontend and backend web applications focused on user experience;
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Experience building internal tools that help teams operationalize analytics (e.g., small Streamlit/Gradio utilities, scheduled batch jobs).
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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.
