Sr Analyst, Data Governance
Apply Now Apply Later Job ID 10149992 Location Burbank, California, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted May 12, 2026Job Summary:
The Disney Corporate Brand team is seeking a Sr. Analyst, Data Governance to support our Customer Data Governance program. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and evolving our enterprise consumer data taxonomy and catalog, ensuring data is accurate, high quality, and compliant with all applicable policies and regulations. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our enterprise consumer data is used effectively and responsibly, delivering powerful business outcomes while honoring guest privacy and trust.
Job Summary:
As a key member of the Data Governance team, you will play a central role in shaping how we manage and leverage our enterprise consumer data to better understand, engage, and grow our audiences across Disney while maintaining responsible and respectful data practices.
This role will be responsible for:
Developing, managing, and optimizing our audience taxonomy and data catalog to support enterprise activation and measurement.
Promote standardization of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) across enterprise and business unit partner initiatives.
Implementing and refining processes for creating and approving new attributes and audience segments while ensuring alignment with privacy, consent, and regulatory requirements.
Stewarding metadata accuracy, consistency, and compliance in collaboration with Data Governance, Marketing, Analytics, and Privacy partners.
Monitoring usage of consumer data and driving continuous improvement and adoption of trusted, data quality certified audience segments.
Promoting best practices in metadata management and data stewardship through training, documentation, and user enablement.
Supporting data quality initiatives, quarterly access reviews, and compliance with data retention and suppression rules.
Basic Qualifications:
3+ years in data governance, taxonomy/metadata management, audience data, or CRM/activation in a complex enterprise.
Hands-on experience curating data catalogs and business glossaries (Alation or similar); strong metadata writing and organization skills.
Working knowledge of audience creation, custom audiences/lookalikes, and platform policies; comfort with concepts like consent gating, DNSMI, VPPA, and COPPA compliance.
Familiarity with customer data segmentation strategies (e.g., lifecycle, geo, engagement, affinity).
Experience collaborating with technical, legal and business stakeholders.
Excellent documentation and communication skills.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in media, entertainment, or a related industry.
Practical understanding of US privacy landscape (e.g., CCPA/CPRA) and records/information management principles.
Exposure to Snowflake, Hightouch (or similar audience activation tools), and Tableau; ability to read basic SQL is a plus.
Experience partnering with Legal/Privacy, Data Quality, and activation teams on cross functional launches.
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $108,900.00 to $140,900.00 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 The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):
At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.
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 Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. 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.