Freelance Python Data Analysis Jobs in Pasadena, CA

Location: Santa Monica, California, United States / New York, New York, United States

Business: Disney Direct to Consumer

Date Posted: Jul. 17, 2026

The Subscriber Lifecycle & Commerce Analytics team is looking for a Senior Data Analyst who will help to measure, understand, and take action to improve our purchasing and payment experience. Our team masters exploratory data analysis, advanced reporting, data visualization, and storytelling to deliver actionable insights and provide recommendations to drive business decision‑making. This team collaborates with stakeholders from business units across The Walt Disney Company to generate insightful, compelling, and strategic analyses. This role will build strong relationships and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Business Operations, and other Analytics teams to ensure the business executes effective experiments around payment processing, fraud prevention, and other commerce domains.

• Lead the end‑to‑end experimentation lifecycle for commerce experiments including payments and fraud prevention. This includes defining success metrics, determining required sample sizes, and validating randomization.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders (Product, Data Science, Business Operations, etc.) to analyze user behavior, design and evaluate interventions in payment and monetization, and identify ways to maximize subscriber retention.
• Create and maintain operational dashboards in Looker and Tableau to understand performance over time, enable efficient exploratory analysis, and equip partners with self‑service tools.
• Translate complex business questions into actionable analysis plans, including testable hypotheses, SQL queries, statistical results, impact estimation and measurements, and executive‑level business presentations.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science teams to build full pipelines on complex transactional data that simplify and clarify these domains for business users and enable advanced modeling and AI uses.

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or other quantitative or scientific field.
• 5+ years of hands‑on analytical work experience with SQL driving strategic analysis to inform product or business decision making.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to apply business strategy to data analysis and recommendations.
• Strong foundational knowledge of applied statistics, causal inference, and experimentation mechanics in technology products.
• Strong proficiency in SQL (especially Snowflake and/or Databricks) for manipulating large data sets, building data pipelines, and interpreting data trends.
• Expertise with data exploration and data visualization tools like Looker and Tableau.
• Strong technical analysis skills to investigate issues, analyze causes, quickly develop possible solutions, document changes, and communicate organizational impact.
• Strong experience in documenting data requirements, data strategy, and data rules (standardization, cleansing, and validation).

• Experience with Python and/or R for statistical analysis and model building.
• Experience with global billing, payment processing, and/or fraud prevention.
• Experience in the streaming media industry and/or supporting a direct‑to‑consumer or subscription‑based product.

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 per year and in New York, NY is $123,000 to $165,000 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.

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.

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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