Senior Product Data Scientist, Philo
$160-210k
Live TV streaming service
Job no longer available
Live TV streaming service
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$160-210k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide affordable and accessible television streaming services to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in a Data Science role
- Demonstrated ability to influence product roadmaps and business decisions with data
- Proven expertise in experimental design (including but not limited to A/B testing), principles of causal inference, and statistical techniques
- Experience with relational databases and SQL
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain and present analytical methodology and results to non-technical audiences
- Expert with statistical analysis in either R or Python
- Strong analytics fundamentals – a degree in statistics, economics, a related field, or similar professional experience
- Experience in writing production-quality code in R/Python, productionizing data models and statistical models with tools such as Git, Sagemaker, and dbt, and using software engineering best practices around version control, review, and automated testing
What the job involves
- Modeling to determine which early product behaviors predict conversion
- Running experiments to evaluate content personalization
- Building data models for analysis of lifecycle marketing communications
- Price sensitivity research and competitive market analyses
- Build a deep understanding of how subscribers use Philo on each of our streaming platforms, including where they run into problems as well as identifying new features and defining the metrics to evaluate those features
- Own analytics and tracking plans, within several development work streams, from metric definition and data instrumentation design to ongoing reporting and research
- Iteratively improve our experimentation methods and establish best practices for A/B/n experiments
- Establish curated dashboards that will serve as the primary source by which we evaluate the performance of features
- Run queries to support ad-hoc product questions and create Mode dashboards and other visualizations for stakeholders
- Understand user flows, user behaviors, and long-term trends in our data to identify opportunities for new features
- Own your analytics projects, proactively identify issues and opportunities, test hypotheses, and propose solutions
- Collaborate with groups company-wide (e.g. business development, advertising operations, marketing, and support) on KPIs, including lifetime value, retention, win-back, and content consumption metrics
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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