Data Scientist 5 - Product

The Member Applied Research Data Science and Engineering team drives foundational research to advance the measurement and understanding of member value. We guide optimal product decision-making while balancing trade-offs, and connect on-the-ground needs from individual teams to holistic priorities and methods shared across the Netflix ecosystem.

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist with strong causal inference and experimentation experience to advance our understanding of member engagement with a growing variety of available content and new interaction types.  In this role, you will drive foundational research, new metric development, and experimentation strategies that directly guide decision-making across the Netflix product.  You’ll work in a highly collaborative and cross-domain environment with other data scientists, data and analytics engineers, and business teams to accelerate our measurement capabilities and influence our strategy.

In this role, you will:

• Drive product innovation through robust measurement strategies across experimentation, modeling, and analytics to shape how our members experience a variety of content types.

• Establish strong partnerships with stakeholders to ladder local developments into a holistic measurement approach.

• Contribute new methodologies to our causal inference tooling.

• Develop experimentation and measurement frameworks to increase the velocity of investments and aid complex decision-making.

To be successful in this role, you have:

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or related quantitative field.

• 5+ years of relevant experience focused on building and delivering real-world machine learning models with demonstrated impact.

• Strong statistical knowledge and intuition - ideally utilized in experimentation or other product analytics settings.

• Strong Quantitative Programming skills in a language such as Python.

• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.

• Passion for driving product vision and innovation strategy by leveraging a broad set of techniques and building strong partnership with stakeholders.

• Strong product sense to balance between addressing stakeholder or test-specific needs and investing in scalable solutions to serve general use cases. 

• Ability to work independently and drive your own projects.

• Embody Netflix values while bringing a new perspective to continue to improve our culture.