Sports Data Analyst
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Data AnalystApply Now Apply Later Job ID 10127187 Location New York, New York, United States Business Disney Direct to Consumer Date postedAug. 04, 2025Job Summary:

The Sports Data Analyst will play a pivotal role within Disney's Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Sports Analytics team, supporting the transformation of how we measure, understand, and grow engagement across our sports portfolio. As part of a highly collaborative team that bridges ESPN and Disney Streaming, you'll work on end-to-end analytics workflows: from building foundational datasets and defining KPIs to surfacing insights that drive programming decisions, product optimizations, and marketing strategy.

You'll partner closely with stakeholders across ESPN Programming, DTC Product, Research, Lifecycle Marketing, and Data Science. You will analyze the placement and performance of sports content across Disney Streaming services, while also conducting broader ecosystem analyses to understand fan engagement across streaming, web, and mobile app environments. Whether you're quantifying the impact of a new feature in the ESPN App or helping define success for a cross-platform sports launch, your work will directly shape the sports streaming experience for millions of fans.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable exploring raw data and explaining their findings to senior executives, and thrives in an environment that blends sports passion with analytical rigor. This role offers a rare opportunity to sit at the center of one of the most dynamic intersections in media, where real-world sports moments meet digital innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze sports content placement across Disney Streaming services to assess its influence on title-level viewership performance

• Develop data-driven insights into how content positioning affects audience engagement and consumption patterns

• Build and maintain dashboards that visualize trends in cross-platform engagement, fan behavior, and content performance

• Develop new metrics and analytical frameworks (e.g., fandom tiering, ecosystem flows) to deepen understanding of how users interact with sports content

• Partner with data engineering and product teams to define and improve foundational datasets and engagement pipelines used across the organization

• Support product launches and feature rollouts with stakeholder-aligned KPIs, reporting workflows, and performance tracking

• Communicate insights through presentations, written briefs, and stakeholder discussions, adapting content for both technical and executive audiences

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, or a related field

• 3+ years of hands-on experience conducting data analysis in a business or streaming/media context

• Fluency in SQL, with the ability to query and transform large-scale behavioral datasets

• Proficiency in Python or R for data wrangling, exploratory analysis, and statistical modeling

• Experience building dashboards and visualizations in tools like Looker, Tableau, or other tools

• Ability to distill complex findings into business-relevant recommendations

• Familiarity with subscriber engagement, conversion funnels, or sports content performance metrics

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in streaming, digital media, or DTC subscription analytics

• Experience working with Snowflake or other behavioral data platforms

• Knowledge of sports content, fandom patterns, or seasonal audience dynamics

• Comfort working across stakeholder groups, including programming, product, data science, and engineering

• Exposure to predictive modeling, A/B testing, and experimentation frameworks

Why Join Us?

Joining the Sports Analytics team means stepping into a uniquely cross-functional role that blends fan passion, business strategy, and technical execution. You'll be part of a high-impact team that:

• Acts as the connective tissue between ESPN and Disney Streaming, bringing together behavioral data, strategic priorities, and audience insights to inform the future of sports at Disney

• Tackles high-visibility, high-impact questions that influence league partnerships, product launches, subscriber engagement strategies, and cross-platform merchandising

• Collaborates with elite analytics partners across Data Science, Product, Engineering, and Research to build models, tools, and measurement frameworks used across the company

• Drives innovation through experimentation, data product development, and emerging methodologies, constantly seeking better ways to understand and grow fandom

• Celebrates sports and storytelling, applying advanced analytics to bring clarity to the moments, players, and formats that move audiences

You'll have the chance to work on real-time event reporting during major live sports moments, explore long-term trends in viewer behavior, and help shape how one of the world's largest media companies delivers sports to fans. This is a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and creativity—and is building the next generation of sports analytics from the ground up.

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The hiring range for this position in New York is $99,900 - $133,900 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.

About Disney Direct to Consumer:

Disney's Direct to Consumer team oversees the Hulu and Disney+ streaming businesses within Disney Entertainment helping to bring The Walt Disney Company's best-in-class storytelling to fans and families everywhere.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney'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 Disney Streaming Services LLC , which is part of a business we call Disney Direct to Consumer .

Disney Streaming Services LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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