Manager, Experimentation & Advanced Analytics

Job Description

Overview
Our Company

As the premier global media and entertainment company, Warner Bros. Discovery offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands, and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming, and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers.

WBD is bringing together the scripted and the unscripted, the local and the global, the timely and the timeless. Taking the world's greatest possibilities and making them a reality. Creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections. Here you can succeed, here you are supported, here you are celebrated. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

As a Manager in Experimentation & Advanced Analytics, you will help evolve HBO Max and Discovery + testing and analytical capabilities that drive quantifiable growth in customer acquisition, engagement and retention through marketing. You will leverage your strong technical and interpersonal skills to manage experiment design and measurement programs across marketing at Warner Brothers Discovery. You will work with business partners and data science teams to ensure meaningful and actionable insights on current tests and analyses, and you will partner with data science and statistics teams to stand up advanced experimentation methods for long-term, scalable program improvements. You will mentor and guide analysts on the team to complete projects and deliver results that are clear and impactful.

The ideal candidate is a well-rounded analytics manager with considerable experience in A/B and multi-variate testing and who has exceptional business and communication skills to influence key decision makers across a highly matrixed organization. They will have experience promoting and implementing good testing practices in nascent testing programs and are an expert at translating broad business questions into high-quality test designs. Finally, they will be experienced in advanced analysis, able to utilize both measured and modeled data to answer broad business questions in detail.

Responsibilities
• Lead test design, QA and measurement of A/B & MV tests across several testing programs, and guide analysts conducting this work
• Utilize standard t-tests, advanced analytical techniques and existing data science models to generate insights from tests and analyses
• Partner with Data Science and Business Leaders to develop new testing practices for improved accuracy, speed and utility (Universal Control Groups, Synthetic Controls, etc); apply advanced new tools and methods in test measurement developed by Data Science (Bayesian testing, Geo-experiment DMA selection, etc)
• Assess current capabilities and develop the roadmap for necessary growth/process improvement for Marketing Experimentation
• Perform deep dive analysis, build compelling presentations and propose data-driven decisions to shape marketing strategies
• Foster a shared purpose and collaborative learning environment among team members that enhances the capabilities of the team
• Help determine and implement the future of experimentation at HBO Max

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree or greater in quantitative field of study (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, etc.)
• 5+ years of work experience in analytics
• 2+ years of work experience in A/B & MV experimentation; experience with both natural and synthetic control experiments preferred
• Strong experience with SQL; R or Python experience preferred
• Experience working with cloud-computing platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, Teradata, etc.
• Ability to work with disparate data sets, sources, formats, etc.
• Track record of partnering with and influencing business teams to better results
• Must handle multiple tasks with changing priorities from various stakeholders
• Must be able to work independently and communicate effectively

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $126,350 - $234,650 salary per year.
Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

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