Full-Time

Senior Director Growth & Commerce Product Analytics

Growth & Commerce Product Analytics

DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation

1,001-5,000 employees

Produces animated films and TV series

Compensation Overview

$230k - $280k/yr

+ Bonus + Long-Term Incentive

North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hybrid

Four days on-site per week required.

Bachelor's, Master's, PhD

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Python
R
SQL
Databricks

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Requirements
  • Experience: 10+ years of applied experience in product analytics, growth analytics, commerce analytics, data science, business analytics, or related analytical discipline in a high-scale digital product environment.
  • Leadership: 6+ years of people management experience with a record of building, leading, and elevating high-performing teams of managers and individual contributors.
  • Growth & Commerce Analytics: Direct experience supporting growth, commerce, subscription, lifecycle, retention, monetization, eCommerce, or customer journey product teams.
  • Business Acumen: Strong understanding of subscriber growth, churn reduction, ARPU, LTV, paid conversion, upgrades, pricing and packaging, winback, offer performance, funnel optimization, and customer behavior analysis.
  • Technical Skills: Hands-on experience with SQL and large-scale datasets, with experience using Python, R, notebooks, Databricks, or similar analytical tools to conduct analysis, automate workflows, and guide analytical quality.
  • Experimentation: Strong understanding of A/B testing, metric design, statistical concepts, causal measurement, power, guardrails, and result interpretation.
  • Analytics Tools: Experience building or scaling dashboards, automated reporting, diagnostic tools, metric frameworks, self-service analytics capabilities, or AI-enabled analytics workflows.
  • Communication: Proven ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders by translating complex analytical work into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.
  • Education: BA/BS in a quantitative, technical, business, scientific, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. Advanced degree preferred.
Responsibilities
  • Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing Growth & Commerce Product Analytics team of managers and individual contributors focused on subscriber growth, retention/churn reduction, and ARPU.
  • Strategy Development: Develop and execute the analytics strategy, operating model, and roadmap for Growth & Commerce Product Analytics across NBC Global Streaming.
  • Business Impact: Identify high-value opportunities across acquisition, conversion, retention, upgrades, pricing and packaging, winback, offers, partnerships, account management, and monetization.
  • Product Partnership: Partner with Product, Engineering, Growth, and other business teams to prioritize product bets, diagnose customer friction, and connect roadmap decisions to measurable subscriber and revenue outcomes.
  • Experimentation: Influence the Growth and Commerce experimentation roadmap by improving hypothesis quality, metric definition, guardrails, test sequencing, readouts, and application of learnings to future product decisions.
  • Data Quality: Partner with data engineering and instrumentation teams to define analytics and experimentation data requirements, validate data quality, and ensure production data models and pipelines reliably support reporting, self-service tools, and decision-making.
  • Analytics Scale: Advance AI-enabled, Databricks-based, and self-service analytics workflows that improve analyst productivity, automate recurring readouts, accelerate diagnostics, and make trusted insights easier for stakeholders to access and act on.
  • Communication: Translate complex analyses, experimentation results, and customer behavior patterns into clear executive narratives that explain what is happening, why it matters, and what actions should be taken.
  • Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week.
  • This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
  • Salary range: $230,000- $280,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)
Desired Qualifications
  • Industry Experience: Background in streaming, media, eCommerce, consumer technology, subscriptions, marketplaces, gaming, fintech, or other high-scale digital product environments.
  • Advanced Measurement: Familiarity with CUPED, regression adjustment, causal inference, heterogeneous treatment effect analysis, quasi-experimental methods, or incrementality measurement.
  • Analytics Platforms: Experience with Databricks SQL, Databricks notebooks, Delta Lake, Databricks Genie, or similar self-service and AI-enabled analytics capabilities.
  • Scaled Analytics: Track record building analytics operating models, metric governance, self-service analytics programs, experimentation enablement practices, or scalable decision-support workflows.

DreamWorks Animation produces animated films and television shows for family and children audiences, creating stories and characters that appeal to multiple generations. Its products are brought to life through a full animation pipeline, including in-house technology like the Moonray rendering platform, and a studio ecosystem that supports development from concept to release. Work combines artistry and engineering to deliver feature films, TV series, and related experiences, with revenue coming from box office, licensing, merchandise, and partnerships with streaming services. The company differentiates itself with its proprietary animation technology, a large creative talent pool at its Glendale campus, and a track record of popular franchises such as How to Train Your Dragon, along with award-winning storytelling. Its goal is to produce high-quality, engaging animated content and advance animation technology while expanding its franchises across theaters, TV, and digital platforms.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$15M

Headquarters

Glendale, California

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • The Bad Guys 2 grossed $240 million worldwide after August 1, 2025.
  • Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie began streaming exclusively on Peacock January 23, 2026.
  • Forgotten Island opens September 25, 2026, extending DreamWorks' theatrical pipeline.

What critics are saying

  • Shrek 5 slipped from July 2026 to June 30, 2027, delaying a franchise tentpole.
  • DreamWorks cut Glendale staff through natural attrition and third-party outsourcing in 2024-2025.
  • Universal now owns DreamWorks; another flop pushes more production offshore permanently.

What makes DreamWorks Animation unique

  • Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, and The Wild Robot give DreamWorks durable multigenerational IP.
  • NBCUniversal integrates theaters, Peacock, consumer products, and theme parks around DreamWorks franchises.
  • The Wild Robot took 11 Annie Awards in 2025, proving premium creative credibility.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

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Headcount

6 month growth

-12%

1 year growth

-12%

2 year growth

-12%
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