Data Scientist

Job Description

Overview & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Pluto TV team! You will use advanced statistical methods to proactively resolve business problems for the supported business unit.

The Data Scientist will be supporting one, or more, of the following groups: Marketing, Distribution, Revenue, Engineering, Entertainment, Retention, and Innovation. This role will be part of the Business Intelligence team and will be reporting to the Head of Data Science, Analytics, and Data Engineering.

This is a meaningful role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
• Building models (e.g. content scoring, revenue attribution, etc.)
• Servicing multiple ad hoc requests in a timely manner
• Providing data analysis and recommendations to the business group to make significantly more data directed decisions
• Supporting the business group by building and proactively suggesting reports and dashboards that would be useful for that group
• Using A/B and Multivariate testing methodology for product and feature improvements.
• Ensuring regularity and standardization in data, metrics, and analysis.

Basic Qualifications:
• 1 to 3 years of commercial experience in a data analyst or data scientist role
• Masters or PhD degree in Statistics, Math, Economics, Computer Science or equivalent

Additional Qualifications:

We believe the right individual will have the following skills and experience in order to be successful in this role:
• Expertise in statistical data mining techniques (i.e GLM/Regression, Random Forest, Boosting, Trees, Text Mining, Social Network Analysis, etc)
• Comfortable questioning and challenging customers to understand their requirements to reach the best solutions Mastery in SQL and Tableau, D3 or similar data visualization products (PowerBI, MicroStrategy, Looker, etc.)
• Strong scripting skills, particularly in Python (as opposed to SQL scripting) in order pull data from SQL and non-SQL sources
• Experience and comfort working with unstructured/non-standardized data
• Experience as an analyst or data scientist in one or more of the following domains strongly preferred: Marketing, Distribution, Revenue, Customer Retention, Engineering, and/or Entertainment

ViacomCBS is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gx3eyo-18-223-108-186-42 in your application.