Head of Data, Philo
$215-300k
Salary varies depending on location
Live TV streaming service
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Live TV streaming service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$215-300k
Salary varies depending on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide affordable and accessible television streaming services to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of experience across analytics, data science, data engineering, or related data functions, with significant proven experience leading multidisciplinary data teams through ambiguity, in both a strategy and personnel management capacity. (Startup experience preferred.)
- Strong skills as a hands-on data scientist who can lead by example, including demonstrated understanding of data architecture, statistical modeling in either Python or R (Python preferred), A/B/n experimentation practices, SQL, and experience independently developing data driven insights. Demonstrated ability to train and coach team members in these skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; you are a strong communicator who can explain complex trends, data findings and analytical methodology to broad audiences with varying technical backgrounds
- A deep understanding of business priorities and the ability to partner with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment (or ability to adapt to this environment very quickly)
- Experience in consumer subscription, streaming, media, ad-supported products, or other event-rich digital businesses is preferred
- Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning is a strong plus
What the job involves
- On the Data team, we’re looking for people who are comfortable working on a variety of interesting engagement, content discoverability, experimentation, acquisition, and retention-related data projects across our streaming service
- You’ll be working closely with other data scientists, analysts, and engineers to build and deploy solutions directly for our service – this work spans both foundational data platform work like data warehouse architecture, metric governance, and semantic consistency across our entire data stack, as well as insights and modeling work that leverages the platform to deliver business value
- In addition, you’ll work with stakeholders in other departments to understand our business needs, build highly reliable and accurate data pipelines that the company can trust, and deliver business-focused data insights to help the entire team thrive
- We are passionate about problem-solving and providing data-informed insights for the entire company, using both cutting-edge techniques and proven practices in close collaboration with every department
- To complete our work we build on modern open-source tools including dbt, GrowthBook, Robyn, Superset, and PyTorch as well as SaaS tools such as Segment, Redshift, Snowflake, SageMaker, AWS Glue, Mode, Omni, Avo, and BigEye
- Philo is seeking a Head of Data to lead and evolve our growing team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts – an effective, collaborative and empathetic leader who will help scale the team to meet our evolving data needs
- This leader will work with stakeholders across the company to ensure that every department at Philo has the reliable and accurate data required to deliver the data-driven insights we need in order to achieve and exceed our goals as a company
- Own all things data at Philo: ensure that stakeholders at Philo have access to the timely and accurate data driven insights that they need to do their jobs
- Oversee the core data science work executed in cross-functional teams to drive product goals, including product experiments and A/B tests, Growth & Acquisition modeling, and product insights, including customer journey analysis and measuring effectiveness of content search and recommendation systems
- Own the quality and performance of the data platform at Philo, including platform architecture and instrumentation, data collection/processing/validation, data governance, and security and compliance
- Ensure that we are collecting the right data and events, processing them in a scalable and modular way, and building a foundation of reliable data that teams across the company can build insights from
- Collaborate closely with the engineering team and AI/ML engineers to support the development and delivery of Philo’s content recommendation system
- Collaborate closely with data roles in our business and finance teams (business insights, business analysts and financial analysts) to help them build a deep understanding of the Philo business, customers, and content trends
- Manage the data team: train, mentor and coach members of the data team, direct their work and support their career growth; identify the roles we need as we grow and hire fantastic people to fill those roles
Our take
Streaming services offer cheaper options than cable TV packages, but prices are beginning to rise. This is partly due to packages beginning to bundle costly sports and other media packages that viewers do not necessarily want.
Philo offers a streaming service that aims to provide a streamlined selection of channels as an affordable, yet comprehensive, viewing option. The streamlined and high-quality channel offerings are available to viewers at $30 per month, a price significantly lower than standard cable subscriptions, with the base option including around 60 live channels and over 75,000 on-demand offerings.
Philo stands out through features like a co-viewing service that lets up to three people watch the same program together, enhanced cloud DVR functionality, and expanded compatibility with smart TVs and popular streaming devices such as Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV. These updates demonstrate Philo's continued focus on accessibility, user experience, and cost-effective entertainment.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2020
$50m
SERIES D
Jul 2018
$41.4m
SERIES C
Total funding: $155.7m
Company HQ
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew McCollum
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard before co-founding Facebook. Joined Philo in 2014 and has acted as CEO since.
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