diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/JSTimerExecutor.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/JSTimerExecutor.java
index e93e749295843a..7c23e701b430f1 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/JSTimerExecutor.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/JSTimerExecutor.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import com.facebook.infer.annotation.Nullsafe;
 import com.facebook.jni.HybridData;
 import com.facebook.jni.annotations.DoNotStripAny;
+import com.facebook.proguard.annotations.DoNotStrip;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.WritableArray;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.WritableNativeArray;
 import com.facebook.react.modules.core.JavaScriptTimerExecutor;
@@ -23,8 +24,9 @@ class JSTimerExecutor implements JavaScriptTimerExecutor {
     SoLoader.loadLibrary("rninstance");
   }
 
-  private final HybridData mHybridData;
+  @DoNotStrip private final HybridData mHybridData;
 
+  @DoNotStrip
   public JSTimerExecutor(HybridData hybridData) {
     mHybridData = hybridData;
   }