Jacob McCright

About Jacob McCright

Data Science, Analytics, Mathematics, and Programming professional. I enjoy the process of diving into the details of data! Always focused on the why, I love driving business utility for a wide range of data-product stakeholders. Co-author of a peer-reviewed, published academic paper in the Journal of Argumentative and Alternative Communication. Coded the NLP for this paper which is titled,\"The most frequently used words: Comparing child-directed speech and young children\'s speech to inform vocabulary selection for aided input\"Link to the paper here:

Experience

1. Manager - Global Content Analytics

   Warner Bros. Discovery

   Sep 2025 — Present · NY, US

   Partner strategically with stakeholder teams to lead end-to-end analytics for 4 major regional markets and 10+ product launches, developing measurement frameworks and success metrics in ambiguous problem spaces.Develop scalable semantic tables and dashboards that unified fragmented measurement and accelerating data-informed strategic decision-making across global product and regional teams.Support high-priority ad-hoc analyses across Content & Product verticals, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver business logic expertise and clear documentation.Manage two direct reports and provided technical mentorship to junior employees on AE processes, SQL optimization, and semantic layer logic.

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor’s Degree, Statistics and Analytics Major, Mathematics Minor

  2016 — 2018