Full Time Job
Principal Data Scientist
Universal Music Group
- Paid
- Full Time
- Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be part of the newly formed Data Science and Advanced Analytics team, which is responsible for delivering machine learning and statistical modeling capabilities and using them to solve business problems across. You will serve as the subject matter of expert on data science internally and externally. Your responsibility includes, but not limit to, developing and applying the state-of-the-art technologies and algorithms to model and optimize the interaction between artists and fans, across UMG's multiple geographical markets, products, and channels. Additionally, you'll act as a thought leader and technology liaison to senior business leaders as well as a mentor to other data science team members. You will collaborate with data strategy and partnership teams, business analytics teams, and data infrastructure teams, distributed across several geographical locations.The Principal Data Scientist will report to the VP of Data Science and Advanced Analytics.
How you'll CREATE:
• Guide and help mentor a team of Data Scientists
• Work as a leader on the Data Science, supporting the entire team as a point person of expertise for the data science projects across the group
• Work with senior business, product, & technical stakeholders to develop data science solutions to business problems
• Proactively analyze existing & new datasets to find new modeling opportunities that are applicable to UMG use cases
• Be a key contributor to UMG's data science strategy and roadmap, collaborate with other scientists, ML engineers, and program managers on the execution of the roadmap
• Represent UMG in the data science community externally
• Autonomously drive the development of machine learning models on a cloud based infrastructure
• Help manage model deployment and perform post-deployment monitoring and troubleshooting
• Document designs and findings, and present to team leadership, fellow scientists, and partner teams. Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and brainstorming sessions
• Build compelling data stories and visualizations to influence decision makers
• Work with other functional teams to evaluate new data sources and advice on data format and data dictionary
• Proactively remove roadblocks and escalate issues when encountered
• Strive to keep abreast with the latest development in the machine learning and artificial intelligence community, bringing new ideas to the team and advocating for best practices
• Ask a lot of questions
Bring your VIBE:
• Master's or PhD Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field is required
• Expert knowledge of deep learning, reinforcement learning, knowledge graph, natural language processing and/or causal inference
• 8+ years of experience in developing and productizing advanced machine learning, statistic modeling and optimization solutions in a commercial production setting
• Expertise in recommender systems, personalization and customer journey modeling is highly desirable
• Proficient in python and its data science and visualization stack, as well as frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Working experience using version control systems (Git)
• Experience building products and are comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively
• Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills, have a hunger to learn, and the ability to operate in a self-guided manner in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment
Perks Playlist:
• Competitive Compensation Package including Salary, Benefits and Generous 401k Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off – Paid Holidays, Two (2) paid weeks for ''Winter Break'' season, Wellness Fridays
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Employee Developmental Support
• Annual Gym Reimbursement Package
• Pet Insurance, plus much more!
Disclaimer: This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.
All UMG employees are currently required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or provide proof of a negative PCR or Antigen test before entering any Company offices unless they have been approved for an exemption or unless prohibited by applicable law.
Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an E-Verify employer.
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Job Category:
Data, Analytics & Business Intelligence
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwj4wj-44-214-106-184-42 in your application.
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