Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Microsoft-Excel, Python Programming, SQL, AWS, Scala Programming, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), R Programming

Job Description

Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions.

Overview & Responsibilities

The Paramount Technology department supports our global content company through the delivery of a high quality viewing experience, system infrastructure support, and creating innovative ways for our employees to collaborate. If you are interested in a strategy that has growth, transformation, and ongoing innovation where you can help “reinvent the broadcasting wheel” ViacomCBS Tech has a role for you!

Overview

The Advanced Media team sits within the larger Technology organization at ViacomCBS, supporting the Ad Sales organization and other verticals within the ViacomCBS business. At the core, we are a data-driven team that uses data science to create strategic efficiencies and empower our client teams with innovative offerings. We are passionate about developing data products that not only get used across the company, but also get talked about in the press for innovation. We are looking for a passionate and skilled Senior Data Scientist to help deliver data science solutions at scale. You will lead statistical analysis projects, design, prototype and implement innovative machine learning projects, and data science experiments. In addition, you will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers to deliver on our KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Research and implement data science approaches, and undertake data exploration analysis to help solve business problems
• Generate data driven insights through exploratory data analysis on first, second, and third-party data
• Design and implement statistical experiments
• Build machine learning models
• Lead machine learning model evaluation design
• Champion data governance and evangelize data science standards within the company
• Partner with product teams to define project evaluation KPIs
• Define, evaluate and monitor product performance metrics, understanding root cause of changes
• Mentor and coach junior data scientists
• Manage and maintain team’s data science code repository

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience building and deploying data science systems at scale
• Acute understanding of relational database management systems and proficiency in writing SQL queries
• Hands on experience with ML algorithms and optimization techniques

Additional Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience with cloud architecture including AWS, GCP and Azure and development methods
• Understanding of integrating ML/AI insights into front-end applications
• Strong written and oral communication skills, being able to communicate insights to technical and non-technical audiences
• Proficiency in python programming language

Education

Masters or PhD in STEM field