Lead Data Scientist, Philo
CTV Advertising
$180-230k
+ Stock options
Live TV streaming service
Job no longer available
Live TV streaming service
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-230k
+ Stock options
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, preferably with experience managing analysts, engineers, or data scientistsDemonstrated 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
- Philo is seeking a Senior Advertising Data Scientist with demonstrated understanding of statistical modeling, A/B/n experimentation practices, SQL, and experience independently developing data driven insights
What the job involves
- You’ll be working closely with other data scientists, analysts, and engineers to build and deploy solutions directly for our service
- This data scientist will have the opportunity to leverage massive structured, unstructured, transactional, and real-time data sets from a variety of sources, analyze financial and customer usage patterns, and make actionable recommendations to product, marketing, engineering, and business development teams
- In this role the Senior Advertising Data Scientist will support the entire product development lifecycle for our advertising systems from feature ideation and opportunity sizing to measurement and experiment design, and from causal analysis and post-launch learning to the next development cycle
- Senior Data Scientists at Philo contribute to mentorship and leadership on the Data team whether they are people managers or individual contributors
- Individuals with prior experience with people management or an interest in people management will have the opportunity to add that responsibility to their role at Philo
- Build a deep understanding of how subscribers use Philo on each of our streaming platforms, how that usage influences advertising performance and defining the metrics to evaluate new features in our advertising systems
- 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 experiments in a live advertising auction environment
- 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
- 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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