Lead Data Scientist, Philo
Product & Experimentation
$172-237k
+ Company stock options
Live TV streaming service
Job no longer available
Live TV streaming service
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$172-237k
+ Company stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide affordable and accessible television streaming services to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong opinions about what high-quality experimentation and causal inference look like and are passionate about building products that delight users
- You can work across multiple product teams and have a keen sense of how to connect experimentation outcomes to product strategy and user engagement metrics
- 10+ years of professional experience in data science/analytics with demonstrated proficiency in Python, SQL, and statistical modeling
- 3+ years of experience leading experimentation programs or product analytics teams
- Deep expertise in experimental design, A/B testing, and causal inference methods
- Strong experience with sequential testing, power analysis, and sample size calculations
- Proven track record of building and scaling experimentation platforms
- Experience with user behavior modeling, funnel analysis, and cohort analytics
- Excitement to leverage the latest LLM tools to improve workflows and efficiency
- Experience in building robust data models for product analytics
- Experience mentoring data scientists on experimentation best practices
- Excellent communication skills with ability to translate statistical concepts to product teams
- Strong product sense and ability to connect analytics to user experience outcomes
- Experience with modern experimentation platforms and BI dashboarding tools
- Expertise in handling common experimentation challenges (network effects, spillover, novelty effects, SMRs)
- Experience building data products for self-service analytics
Desirable
- Experience in media/streaming industry with understanding of viewer engagement metrics and content performance analysis
- Experience with multi-armed bandits, contextual bandits, or reinforcement learning approaches
- Familiarity with Bayesian methods for experimentation and decision-making
- Experience with experimentation and feature flagging systems
What the job involves
- Philo is looking for a Lead Data Scientist (Product & Experimentation) to join our team and help elevate our product analytics and experimentation practice
- This role will provide senior leadership in building a world-class experimentation platform, establishing methodological rigor for product analytics, and mentoring our data science team to deliver high-impact analytical solutions that improve the user experience
- Set the roadmap and model best practices for product experimentation and A/B testing at Philo
- Lead the evolution of our experimentation platform (GrowthBook) and establish gold-standard practices for experiment design, analysis, and interpretation
- Partner with product leadership to identify and prioritize high-impact experimentation opportunities across the user journey
- Establish and evangelize methodological standards for causal inference and statistical testing
- Build frameworks for measuring product feature impact and user engagement metrics
- Coach and mentor data scientists on advanced experimentation techniques and product analytics
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure robust data instrumentation and tracking
- Lead complex analytical projects focused on user behavior, content discovery, and platform engagement
- Develop self-service experimentation tools and dashboards for product teams
- Champion a culture of data-driven product development and continuous testing
- Represent the data science team in product strategy and roadmap discussions
Application process
- Projected Start Date: ASAP
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 $25 per month, a price significantly lower than standard cable subscriptions, with the base option including 60 live channels and over 75,000 on-demand offerings.
Whilst other streaming platforms offer affordable packages, Philo stands out with unique features such as a co-viewing service that allows up to three people to watch the same program together. The company has also proven its dedication to improved user experiences, as it expands its compatibility with devices such as smart TVs.
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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 benefits
- Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
- 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay)
- Flexible working hours
- Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
- $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation)
- $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance
- $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter)
- $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco)
- Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps
- Dog-friendly office
- And much more!
Company HQ
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew McCollum
(CEO, not founder)Studied Computer Science at Harvard before co-founding Facebook. Joined Philo in 2014 and has acted as CEO since.
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