Data Scientist, Netflix

Data Scientist, Netflix

Company Netflix
Job title Data Scientist (L5) – Live Discovery and Engagement
Job location Los Gatos, California, US
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Drive product innovation through robust measurement strategies in experimentation, modeling, and analytics, keeping the overall product vision in mind and focusing on Live Streaming.
  • Establish strong partnerships with stakeholders to shape the space’s vision, whether by helping determine a product strategy or defining new metrics.
  • Develop experimentation and measurement frameworks to increase the velocity of investments and aid complex decision-making.
  • Facilitate ownership and accountability by ensuring that the team produces trustworthy, high-quality outputs that influence the decisions and direction of member experience.
  • Lead or enable engineering and product partners to lead the design, analysis, and interpretation of experiments that shape product decisions.

Requirements & Skills:

  • At least five years of professional experience applying statistical and mathematical concepts to solve real-world problems at scale.
  • Passion for driving product vision and innovation strategy by leveraging a broad set of techniques and building strong partnerships with stakeholders.
  • Strong statistical skills and intuition, ideally utilized in experimentation or other product analytics settings, are required to solve problems in consumer-facing product areas.
  • Expertise in SQL and statistical programming (Python preferred).
  • Experience with algorithms as a product (e.g. recommendation systems, ranking algorithms.) is a bonus
  • Exceptional communication with technical and non-technical audiences across a wide group of cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Good judgment to balance between addressing stakeholder or test-specific needs and investing in scalable solutions to serve general use cases. Ability to work independently and drive your own projects.
  • Comfort with ambiguity; ability to thrive with minimal oversight and process.

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