Director, Analytics and Insights

Job Description

As Director – Analytics and Insights, you will architect and lead the future of data-driven decision-making at Warner Bros. Discovery. In this high-impact, global leadership role, you will own the strategy, delivery, and enterprise scaling of advanced analytics, business insights, and next-generation business intelligence (BI) platforms.
You will be responsible for establishing a modern, intelligent insights ecosystem that empowers thousands of business users to make faster, smarter, and more strategic decisions-at scale. Your remit spans traditional analytics, enterprise BI (Tableau, Power BI, MicroStrategy, SAP BO), self-serve insights, conversational BI, and AI-augmented analytics, all under a single, unified vision.
This role demands a visionary leader who can blend data architecture with business intuition, scale operational excellence, and drive measurable business value through insights. You will directly influence how WBD leverages data to optimize global operations, delight audiences, and accelerate innovation across its vast content and media ecosystem.
1. Enterprise Analytics & Insights Strategy
• Develop and execute a unified enterprise strategy for analytics and insights-anchored in business impact, speed-to-decision, and user empowerment.
• Define and lead strategic programs that embed analytics into content optimization, audience engagement, operational efficiency, marketing attribution, and revenue management.
• Transform the organization's decision-making from reactive reporting to proactive, predictive, and prescriptive insights.
2. Business Intelligence Platform Leadership
• Own the global BI & reporting function, overseeing development, governance, performance, and innovation across platforms like Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, and SAP BusinessObjects.
• Lead the modernization and consolidation of BI tools and workflows to drive consistency, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Establish enterprise-wide KPI frameworks, reporting templates, and executive dashboards to align operational and strategic decision-making.
3. AI-Enabled, Self-Service & Conversational BI
• Spearhead the implementation of AI-powered BI, including self-service analytics, conversational interfaces, and natural language querying.
• Drive adoption of augmented analytics capabilities-automated insights, anomaly detection, forecast narratives, and proactive alerts.
• Enable a federated, insight-driven culture by designing intuitive, role-based BI experiences for business users, creatives, and executives alike.
4. Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, translating complex analytics into actionable business insights with measurable outcomes.
• Partner closely with data engineering, data governance, data science, product, content, ad sales, marketing, and finance teams to ensure alignment and impact.
• Embed a data-first mindset across the enterprise through training, advocacy, and thought leadership.
5. People Leadership & Operational Excellence
• Lead, inspire, and grow a high-performing global team of analysts, BI developers, product owners, and insight consultants.
• Institutionalize delivery excellence by building reusable assets, scalable reporting templates, and high-impact insight playbooks.
• Monitor performance and adoption of analytics solutions and drive continuous improvement.
6. Innovation, Governance & Future Readiness
• Champion innovation in decision intelligence by exploring cutting-edge techniques such as causal inference, simulation modeling , and AI-generated narratives.
• Define and enforce BI governance, access controls, and data quality frameworks to maintain integrity, trust, and compliance.
• Stay at the forefront of analytics trends and tools, ensuring WBD's analytics stack evolves ahead of the curve.

Qualifications & Experiences:
• Master's in Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or related field.
• 1 0 + years of progressive experience in analytics, insights, and BI-ideally within media, entertainment, or direct-to-consumer businesses.
• At least 5 + years of proven leadership experience in managing large, global teams across analytics and BI disciplines.
• Deep expertise in enterprise BI platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, SAP BusinessObjects, and experience leading BI modernization programs.
• Proven success in deploying AI-enabled analytics, augmented BI, conversational interfaces, and self-serve data platforms at scale.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud data stacks (Snowflake, BigQuery ), data modeling , SQL, and analytical architecture.
• Exceptional executive communication, data storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
• A strategic thinker with a hands-on ability to connect analytics execution with tangible business results.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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