Principal Data Governance Analyst

Job Posting Title:

Principal Data Governance Analyst

Req ID:

10131348

Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. 

• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Job Summary:

Disney’s Ad Platforms group is seeking a Principal Data Governance Analyst, Privacy & Compliance to drive global advertising privacy and regulatory compliance initiatives across our data-driven advertising ecosystem.  In this role, you will apply deep domain expertise to develop and drive initiatives to proactively assess and implement changes to advertising capabilities globally. Additionally, this role will advise on impact, risk, and prioritization of privacy and compliance-enabling processes, technologies, and organizational structures to streamline and improve ad-serving capabilities throughout the Ad Platforms ecosystem. 

This role will also be accountable for ensuring our advertising technology platforms remain compliant with global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, LGPD, etc.), while enabling scalable and privacy-responsible advertising across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, National Geographic, and more.

This position is ideal for a highly experienced compliance professional with a strong background in advertising technology, regulatory frameworks, and audit best practices, who thrives in complex, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities:

• Champion and lead implementation of consent management and data minimization to meet and exceed regulatory compliance requirements.

• Partner with Legal, Privacy, Ads and Data Product, and Engineering Proactively Interpret and apply global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, LGPD, etc.) to Ad Platforms operations, guiding privacy-by-design implementation in ad-serving, targeting, and measurement workflows.

• Manage and oversee privacy capabilities within Adverting end-to-end workflows; identify and implement continual improvements to streamline and increase adoption.

• Drive updates and enhancements to privacy signal processing and privacy frameworks.

• Monitor and audit privacy-enabling workflows and architectures to ensure compliance with policies and standards.

• Identify, prioritize, and oversee implementation of key privacy-enhancing opportunities.

• Provide subject matter guidance and influence technical design decisions within Advertising projects and initiatives, to promote privacy-by-design principles early in the project lifecycle.

• Provide training and support to stakeholders to increase data literacy and awareness of advertising privacy principles.

• Sets standards and oversees collection, organization, and tracking of planning and execution activities to support privacy initiatives across Ad Platforms.

• Promote adoption of changes to advertising and data privacy security postures relating to targeting and segmentation.

• Represent The Walt Disney Company within Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Privacy, CTV, and Adve