Data Scientist (L5) - Ads

Role Overview

Our Ads Data Science and Engineering team plays a crucial role in establishing the foundation of our ads business. Our mission encompasses conducting comprehensive analyses, developing analytic tools, and creating predictive models using machine learning, all with the overarching goal of enhancing choices and joy for our members. As a leader in this domain, you will collaborate closely with partner teams to strategize on overarching business goals. Your team will be at the forefront of developing and implementing advanced optimization algorithms and machine learning models, driving significant enhancements to our advertising systems.

Responsibilities

• Apply modeling and machine learning techniques to business problems at the intersection of product and data science.
• Autonomously identify and pursue research with significant business impact, and make compelling cases for prioritization and resource allocation.
• Proactively perform data exploration on engagement behaviors to discover future opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders from product, engineering, operations, design, consumer research, etc., to develop and deploy models at scale.
• Deliver well‑documented datasets, tools, and reports to key technical and business partners.
• Identify, compute and validate the appropriate metrics to measure success in a product area.
• Present your research and insights to all levels of the company.

Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrated tenacity, resilience, and leadership experience that enables you to organize and drive cross‑functional projects, overcome challenges, and propose solutions.
• You should be able to quickly assess and understand complex systems, but also have high EQ so that you can be a product ambassador to the rest of the organization and our Hollywood and global partners.
• You are a player‑coach: you can develop roadmaps and strategies, but also execute on technical work and ensure that your team produces consistent high‑quality outputs.
• Superb communication skills: cultivate strong working relationships, communicate effectively, write meticulously, and give outstanding presentations to both technical and creative audiences.
• Capacity and passion to translate business objectives into actionable analyses, and analytic results into business and product recommendations.
• A passion for TV and movies and defining the future of entertainment.

Compensation

Annual salary; no bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. The range for this role is $170,000 – $720,000.

Benefits

Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family‑forming benefits, Life and Serious Injury Benefits, paid leave of absence programs, 35 days of paid time off for full‑time hourly employees, and immediate flexible time off for full‑time salaried employees.

EEO Statement

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.