Lead Data Scientist
The Walt Disney Company · Glendale
- Pay
- $155,700-$208,700/year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Category
- Tech & Engineering
- Neighborhood
- Glendale
- Posted
- September 3, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Last verified
- Today
About the Role
Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more, all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.
News & Entertainment Machine Learning (N&E ML) team builds robust data pipelines and advanced machine learning platforms that deliver personalized experiences to users across Disney's News & Entertainment portfolio, including ABC News, ABC Entertainment, National Geographic, Marvel, and Disney Studios.
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will act as the bridge between data and product decisions for the N&E ML Platform, ensuring that machine learning and personalization investments translate into measurable business impact. You will conduct exploratory data analysis, design and evaluate experiments, and define the success metrics used to judge model and product performance, partnering closely with Machine Learning Engineers on feature design, drift detection, and model evaluation.
What You'll Do
- Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) across user, content, and engagement data to identify patterns, trends, and behavioral insights across the N&E portfolio (ABC News, ABC Entertainment, National Geographic, Marvel, and Disney Studios)
- Design, implement, and evaluate A/B tests and other controlled experiments to validate product and personalization decisions
Pay & Benefits
$155,700–$208,700/year
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Lead Data Scientist
$155,700-$208,700/year