- 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

- 10+ 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