Job ID: JOB_ID_8550
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to join our team in Los Angeles, CA. The ideal candidate will serve as a developer of key DTC analytical models, including customer lifetime value, attribution, churn, and A/B testing. You will own the end-to-end model development lifecycle, from scoping and exploration to feature engineering, model development, validation, and deployment. This role requires close collaboration with data engineering and product teams to operationalize models, ensuring scalability, reproducibility, and automated monitoring.
- Own end-to-end model development: scoping, exploration, feature engineering, model development, validation, and deployment.
- Develop key DTC analytical models such as customer lifetime value, attribution, churn, and A/B testing.
- Work closely with data engineering and product teams to operationalize models, ensuring scalability, reproducibility, and automated monitoring.
- Conduct deep-dive analyses to uncover insights that inform content strategy, product experience, and growth plans for the service.
- Translate complex modeling results into clear, compelling narratives for leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Partner with product, marketing, and platform teams to identify opportunities for advanced analytics and modeling.
- Collaborate with the Insights Strategy & Analytics dedicated Core team (BI, data engineering, and Strategic Analysts) and leadership to integrate modeling outputs into data products, dashboards, and business-embedded tools that support decision-making across the Sony Pictures Core ecosystem.
- Leverage expertise in streaming, digital media, consumer apps, or subscription businesses.
- Apply strong understanding of the TV and streaming landscape across linear, digital, AVOD, FAST, SVOD, and emerging platforms.
- Operate in ambiguity and help stakeholders articulate questions, opportunities, and hypotheses.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in data science, ideally in streaming, digital media, consumer apps, or subscription businesses.
- Proven track record developing predictive models, experimentation frameworks, and advanced analytics for DTC or digital platforms.
- Expert proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with experimentation platforms, uplift modeling, statistical testing, and causal inference.
- Strong skills in feature engineering, handling large-scale behavioral data, and building ML pipelines.
- Experience with cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, Databricks) and MLOps practices.
- Strong understanding of the TV and streaming landscape.
- Strong communicator capable of presenting complex modeling outputs to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and help stakeholders articulate questions, opportunities, and hypotheses.
- Passion for streaming, entertainment, consumer behavior, and data-driven storytelling.
- Highly collaborative, curious, and eager to partner across functions.
Keywords:
- Data Scientist
- Senior Data Scientist
- Machine Learning
- Python
- SQL
- AWS
- GCP
- Databricks
- MLOps
- Los Angeles, CA
- Onsite
- Contract
- DTC
- Streaming
- Sony Pictures
Special Requirements
Onsite Daily in Los Angeles (Need Locals Only), US Citizen or GC holder
Compensation & Location
Salary: $140,000 – $190,000 per year (Estimated)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Recruiter / Employer: Sony Pictures
Email: rsh.jaiswal@fustis.com
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