Netflix

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service, with more than 247 million members in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, feature films, and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume their entertainment on-demand, personalized to their interests, across a variety of screens.

As Netflix expands into delivering a broader range of entertainment options and business models, it is increasingly important we build a holistic and personal view of who our consumers are. We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to support the vision, strategies, and development of new systems that provide intelligence about our consumers. This high-impact role will be pivotal in uncovering opportunities, influencing product decisions, and informing future directions. The ideal candidate will excel in opportunity discovery, experimentation & causal inference studies, cross-functional & cross-domain collaboration, and share a passion for enabling more at-scale data science applications to continuously improve a holistic understanding of our consumers.

In this role, you will:

• Be a strong thought partner influencing strategic decision-making through data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Proactively identify and perform data exploration to inform future product directions.
• Make data-driven recommendations for opportunities, prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Understand where various opportunities fit into the broader strategies and prioritize competing demands to ensure the most impactful items.
• Effectively identify and apply analytics, experimentation, and causal inference techniques for business problems. 
• Develop and validate the appropriate metrics to measure success in a given product area.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-functional partners from product, engineering, design, consumer research, etc.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-domain partners from Content, Ads, Games, Personalization, etc.
• Present your research and insights to all levels of the company.

You are:

• A highly skilled professional with expertise in product knowledge and intuition, ideally applied in consumer product development settings.
• A statistical expert with strong statistical knowledge and intuition, ideally applied in experimentation and observational causal studies settings.
• Proficient in quantitative programming languages, such as Python or R.
• Skilled in SQL and familiar with distributed data stores like S3, Presto, Hive, and Spark.
• Highly effective in engaging with diverse stakeholders and adept at cultivating strong partnerships.
• Excellent with communication, conveying technical content to non-technical audiences, and collaborating across different functions to ensure real business impact.
• Strategic-minded, impact-driven, and able to incorporate a larger business context into data questions and product development.
• Passionate about driving and influencing product strategies in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrating the capability to thrive with minimal oversight and navigate complex processes.
• Plus: experience in building real-world machine learning models with demonstrated impact 
• Plus: familiar with software engineering practice and working with APIs

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $150,000 - $750,000.

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.