Walt Disney World's Commercial Strategy organization aims to leverage data assets and quantitative techniques to uncover insights about guests and business, ultimately shaping and improving Disney products and offerings through data-driven decision-making.
Requirements
- Experience with SQL, Python, or R to perform data manipulation, engineering, or analysis
- Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases, as well as data modeling techniques/standard methodologies and practices
- Knowledge of industry leading data and analytic tools (e.g., Snowflake, Git, Sagemaker, Dataiku, Tableau)
- Ability to follow existing programming and style guidelines to maintain consistent quality of code
- Ability to maintain documentation, procedures, and working instructions for the Commercial team
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Machine Learning
- Experience with using ML Frameworks, libraries, and tools, such as TensorFlow, Spark MLlib, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Keras, etc.
- Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, as well as big data technologies
Responsibilities
- You will translate the business and analytic needs into data requirements to ensure you have the information you need to solve the problem, and work with technology partners to troubleshoot data quality
- You will work in a large, complex data environment, compiling and cleansing data across a variety of domains to create a foundation for your analytic work.
- You will conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data collection and exploration, feature generation and reduction, and algorithm selection.
- You will determine the best techniques to use to solve problems efficiently and effectively, examining all aspects of the analytics curve across statistical, predictive, and prescriptive methods.
- You will draw inferences, quantify uncertainty/risk, and identify limitations to accurately summarize your findings, relating them back to the problem at hand.
- You will successfully craft key takeaways and next steps in the context of business actionability, while facilitating the integration of your work into the decision making process.
Other
- Time-management skills, with ability to prioritize multiple requests and communicate status to partners/leadership
- Strong communication, interpersonal skills and fortitude to get stuff done
- Passion for data, technology, and challenging the status quo
- Currently enrolled undergraduate student in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, econometrics, data science)
- Be enrolled in an accredited college/university pursuing a degree taking at least one class at time of application OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship.
