Part of *** 's *** & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) segment, *** Music Group (DMG) is the music hub for TWDC, encompassing all aspects of music commercialization and marketing: recorded music ( *** Records and Hollywood Records), *** Music Publishing, and *** Concerts. DMG distributes music both physically and digitally, and also licenses music throughout the world in various forms of *** including television, print, gaming, and consumer products.
Job Summary:
The Manager, Data Analytics is responsible for *** Music Group's (DMG) data, reporting and quantitative research, and serves as the data analytics partner to cross-functional teams, providing insights to inform planning and decisions across the DMG business areas
To support these goals, the role will develop a deep understanding of user behaviors within music marketing, discovery, and consumptions channels
The right person for this role has a deep curiosity and aptitude in data with applied knowledge of measurement and statistics. The role will be expected to translate business questions into analytical and technical methodologies, driving results through analysis of large transaction level datasets. The role will need to communicate effectively, distilling insights into concise and compelling data-driven stories, and socialize broadly with audiences across levels and functions.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Drive pragmatic approaches to solving complex business problems through data creation, analysis, statistical modeling. Develop new features integrating data across internal and external data sources. Build and apply segmentation, regression, and classification models to derive insights
- Contribute to strategic initiatives and new business opportunities by developing analytical models and frameworks to understand potential, performance drivers, and impact of environmental factors
- Support data-informed business strategies by applying data mining, quantitative analysis, and data presentation to surface and elevate key themes, answering business questions across varied business areas.
- Extract and develop data for analysis. Acquire, organize, cleanse and manipulate complex, large-scale data from multiple disparate sources utilizing tools such as PySpark and advance SQL to interact with the data
- Apply supervised or unsupervised learning techniques, such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, or k-means clustering to derive, validate, and quantify conclusions from the data
- Be the partner for cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities and understand performance, diving into data to drive meaningful and actionable insights
- Contribute to company priorities through ongoing reporting and analysis to inform business, product, marketing, and sales decisions
- Conduct content performance and audience analysis for products releases. Develop and track key metrics to measure success
- Perform statistical analysis such as KPI deep dives, behavioral clustering, user journey analytics. Develop analytical pipelines for automated, scalable, repeatable and integrated analysis using modern big data architectures in data ecosystems such as Databricks, Snowflake, Google Big Query
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to execute on data projects
- Contribute to solution discovery, design, build and QA process. Collaborate on the data models, database schema/table, ETL/ELT data pipelines and validation parameters
- Lead and mentor a team member, setting priorities to maximize impact in the organization
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years data analytics experience
- 2+ years management experience
- Bachelor's degree in an analytical field including Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other related quantitative field.
- Experience developing statistical models and analyses in an industry setting for business use cases. Applied knowledge of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques
- Expertise manipulating large, transaction level data sets and interpreting data trends from multiple disparate data sources
- Strong hands-on experience developing sophisticated analytical solutions using scripting tools (Python/R)
- Mastery in advanced SQL, large-scale data and numerical computing languages (PySpark)
- Experience data mining in distributed systems (Spark/Databricks)
- Proficient in data exploration and visualization tools (Tableau/Looker)
- Experience developing analytical software that scale analyses
- Experience working with *** performance data
- Experience working with data in the entertainment industry
- Strong experience documenting data requirements, rules and, assumptions
- Experience communicating analytical concepts to a wide range of audiences
- Passion for building clear, concise, and meaningful metrics
- Proven track record of leveraging data to deliver business value and presenting data-driven insights to business audiences
- Experience i *** uencing and partnering with stakeholders across the organization
- Strong time management with ability to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple priorities
- Strong attention to detail without losing sight of broader objectives
- Track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, and delivering results
- Keen interest in music and the music business
- Strong familiarity with music streaming services (Spotify, Apple, *** Music, YouTube), social *** platforms (TikTok, FB/Instagram) and emerging technologies (digital assistants/voice)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading data-centric projects across a wide cross-functional landscape
- Experience building, managing and motivating teams in strategic support functions
- Master's degree in an analytical field including Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other related quantitative field
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $136,038 to $182,490 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.
About *** Music Group:
The music is the soundtrack of our lives - from your favorite hits by popular artists to beloved tunes from films like Mary Poppins and Frozen. Find the music that rocks your world right here at the *** Music Group (DMG), headquartered in Burbank and home to Hollywood Records, *** Records, *** Music Publishing and *** Concerts. DMG releases film and television soundtracks from the world's biggest entertainment brands, including *** , *** , Marvel, the legendary Star Wars, *** and *** Channel, alongside pop, dance, family music and the catalog of classic rock band Queen. DMG is also an innovator in music distribution and live concerts. If music is your passion, come be a part of the team that brings it to ears all over the world.
About *** :
*** , together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and *** enterprise with the following business segments: *** Entertainment, *** , *** Parks, and Experiences and Products. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, *** proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. *** 's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Hollywood Records, Inc , which is part of a business we call *** Music Group .
Hollywood Records, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. *** fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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