Key skills
Statistical modelingSQLPythonRMarketing measurementExperimentationPlanningorganizationInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsFacilitation skillsSparkS3Communication
About this role
Netflix is a global entertainment company focused on pushing the boundaries of storytelling and creativity. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to provide insights and partnership to marketing decision makers, with responsibilities including developing statistical models and translating analytic insights into actionable recommendations.
Responsibilities:
- Be a strategic thought partner with business stakeholders to define high impact analytical problems and innovative ways to solve them with data
- Develop statistical models explaining campaign engagement and performance, Marketing impact, and other key behavioral patterns
- Facilitate the Marketing cross-functional DSE pod, ensuring the DSE partnership efforts with Marketing efforts are aligned
- Translate analytic insights into actionable recommendations for business improvement, and communicate these findings clearly to a broad audience
- Identify and proactively socialize Marketing insights, especially those that may be impactful to other business areas
Requirements:
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to influence stakeholders using clear insights and recommendations
- Adept at cultivating strong partnerships
- Exceptional thought partnership and engagement abilities with a diverse set of stakeholders and passionate about communicating difficult concepts to non-technical audiences
- Highly skilled in leading through influence
- Exceptional facilitation, planning and organization skills
- Domain expertise in Marketing measurement
- Strong statistical knowledge: understanding of predictive modeling; ability to tease out incrementality vs. correlations, confounder identification and amelioration, etc
- Deep understanding of experimentation including power calculations, quasi-experiment, and interpretation of results
- Strong SQL skills and experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (S3, Presto, Hive & Spark)
- Strong skills in Python or R
- Self-starter who thrives under a high level of autonomy
- Enthusiastic about Netflix culture