Job Posting Title:

Decision Science Product Intern (Media), Spring 2025

Req ID:

10099282

Job Description:

About the Role & Program

Disney Decision Science and Integration (DDSI) is The Walt Disney Company’s center of excellence for developing and deploying innovative analytics that supports decision-making for client organizations across The Walt Disney Company (TWDC), including Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (e.g., ABC, ESPN, FX, Studio Entertainment, Disney Theatrical Group) and Disney Experiences. To drive business value through decision-shaping analytics, DDSI leverages technology, optimization, simulation, statistics, and machine learning models to explore opportunities and deploy new analytical capabilities.

The Decision Science Product team within DDSI is looking for an intern who will contribute to a highly skilled team of experts across business and technical domains. This role will conduct analysis across the media landscape to inform decisions relevant to our client’s organization and processes. The intern will work closely with our Product Development and Operational Support teams, while getting exposure to our clients, vendors, and internal TWDC teams such as Decision Science, Data Integration, and various segment-specific analytics and technology groups.

The timeline of this internship is from January through June 2025.

What You Will Do

The intern will be data-driven and business-minded and will be passionate about solving business questions through data analysis. In this position, you will transform data into relevant business insights. The role will include working with analytically minded peers, where you are encouraged to contribute to and challenge the current knowledge base. You should enjoy connecting with your teammates and leadership to brainstorm ways to better support business decisions, build data visualization dashboards, and perform data analysis to explain patterns and provide recommendations!

As an intern, you will make an impact by:

• Handling smaller-scale projects crafted to provide actionable insights to internal teams and external partners.

• Contributing to deliverables that will drive value through their integration into larger processes.

• Working in SQL/Python to extract data for analysis, maintain analytical models, and validate our results against relevant benchmarks.

• Building Tableau dashboards to deliver accurate, clear, concise insights and visualizations.

• Conducting data preparation, exploration, and validation.

• Collaborating with leadership on tasks, prioritization, and decision-making.

• Being a problem solver; when presented with new challenges, think critically about the business problem, and recommend solutions to leadership.

• Researching relevant analytics techniques and industry subject matter areas.

• Facilitating the creation and maintenance of accurate analytic/business process documentation.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Proficient in scripting and data processing (SQL, Python) and data visualization (Tableau)

• Familiarity with basic data science methodologies (e.g. forecasting, machine learning, optimization, etc.)

• Ability to build relationships and partner with both technical and non-technical teams

• Confirmed excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Knowledge of basic database structure

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to balance multiple priorities and adapt to a constantly evolving business environment

• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Required Education

Currently enrolled as a Senior or graduated within six months (6) months of application submission, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in an analytical field including Computer Science, Computer Programming, Statistics, Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, or other related quantitative field at an accredited college or university.

Preferred Education

Currently enrolled as a Graduate level student or graduated within six months (6) months of application submission, pursuing a master's or higher, in a relevant quantitative field comparable to those mentioned above, at an accredited college or university

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:

• Be enrolled in an accredited college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR must have graduated from a college/university within 6 months at time of application posting OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship

• Be at least 18 years of age

• Have not completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or Disney College Program

• Possess unrestricted work authorization

Program Length

• The timeline of this internship is from January through June 2025. Interns must be fully available for the duration of the internship

• Must be fully available from Monday-Friday for the duration of the internship, 40 hours per week

Florida Housing

We provide limited housing opportunities for Florida-based interns through American Campus Communities, for more information click here.

Job Posting Segment:

Corporate Strategy

Job Posting Primary Business:

Decision Science & Integration

Primary Job Posting Category:

Technology Intern

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2024-09-04