Data Scientist, Netflix
Identity Algorithms
$150-750k
+ Stock option program
Office located in Los Gatos, CA
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150-750k
+ Stock option program
Office located in Los Gatos, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Entertainment, like friendship, is a fundamental human need; it changes how we feel and gives us common ground. Netflix is better entertainment at lower cost and greater scale than the world has ever seen. They want to entertain everyone, and make the world smile.
Role
Who you are
- 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 the holistic understanding of our consumers
- 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
- Experience in building real-world machine learning models with demonstrated impact is a plus
- Familiarity with software engineering practice and working with APIs is a plus
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Netflix was started when one of the co-founders had received a $40 late fee after failing to return a film on time. Now, Netflix is one of the fastest growing technology companies, reinventing the entertainment space by providing high quality content for low fees.
This is becoming an increasingly competitive space, with deep-pocketed rivals including Amazon, Disney, Apple and AT&T. They are all spending big on content and pricing cheaply in a battle to win subscribers.
After a dwindling number of subscribers due to tough competition in 2022, Netflix is focused and committed to improving its core service which is its TV, movies and now games going forward. Post-IPO funding of $183 million from Winslow Capital at the end of 2023 followed the previous year's dumping of shares by the same company after Netflix's first loss of subscribers. This capital indicates a shifting perspective on Netflix's outlook, which saw a year-end subscriber boost.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2000
$50m
SERIES E
Jul 1999
$30m
SERIES D
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Inclusion
- You work well with people of different backgrounds, identities, values and cultures
- You are excited to help build diverse teams where everyone feels welcomed and respected
- You recognize we all have biases and work to counteract them
- You take action if someone is marginalizing a colleague
- You treat everyone with respect regardless of their position at Netflix
- Integrity
- You exhibit and are known for candor and transparency
- You only say things about colleagues that you are willing to share with them
- You admit mistakes openly and share learnings widely
- You always share relevant information internally, even when uncomfortable
- You act with good intent and trust your colleagues to do the same
- Passion
- You care deeply about Netflix‘s success
- You inspire others with your drive for excellence
- You are excited about your work
- You are proud to entertain the world
- You are tenacious and optimistic
- Innovation
- You develop new ideas that prove impactful
- You look for every opportunity to reduce complexity and keep things simple
- You challenge prevailing assumptions, and suggest better approaches
- You are flexible and thrive in a constantly evolving organization
- Curiosity
- You learn rapidly and eagerly
- You seek alternate perspectives to improve your ideas
- You see patterns and connections that other people miss
- You seek to understand members’ changing tastes and desires
Company HQ
Los Gatos, CA
Founders
Reed Hastings
(Chairman)Served two years with the Peace Corps in Switzerland. Studied Computer Science at Stanford, and founded Pure Software (which sold for a substantial profit before Netflix). Previously a Board Member at Microsoft and Facebook.
Greg Peters
(Co-CEO)Previously Netflix COO and CPO, SVP and CE of Product Development at Macrovision, VP of Engineering at Mediabolic, Director at Redhat inc, VP Engineering at NOCpulse.
People progressing
Joined as a Content Strategy Associate in LA. Moved to London after 6 months. They have been promoted to Head of Content Strategy & Analysis UK.
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