Staff Data Scientist, Reinforcement Learning - HBO Max

Key Skills

Python Programming, SQL, Cloud computing

Job Description

WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands including: HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others.

The Job

We arelooking for a Staff Data Scientist specialized in reinforcement learning to join our Customer Data Science team. As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be responsible for using your expertise in reinforcement learning to solve business challenges and enable our organization to make data-driven decisions.

The Daily

• Apply reinforcement learning to identify Next Best Action
• Investigate opportunities to improve customer experience
• Apply data-mining, machine learning and/or deep learning techniques for a variety of modeling and relevance problems, including but not limited to Audience Segmentation, churn model, and winback model
• Provide technical mentorship for junior data scientists
• Understand the data and lead the ETL process to utilize large volumes of first party, second party, and third-party data for modeling purposes
• Define metrics, understand A/B testing and statistical measurement of model quality
• Present models and methodology to senior management and socialize results and learnings within the organization to drive business decisions
• Collaborate with:
  • MLE team to deploy models
  • Stakeholders to understand their needs
  • BI and engineering teams to implement the tools needed to support the empowerment of the organization with data

The Essentials

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or other computational disciplines is required; PhD degree is preferred
• 5+ years of experience in data science roles with a PhD degree or 8+ years of experience in data science roles with a graduate degree
• Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning
• Significant experience working with relational databases and SQL (experience with Pyspark/Scala is a plus)
• Advanced-level proficiency in Python
• Experience with working in cloud-based environments like AWS

Nice to Haves

• Proven ability in building relationships and collaborating with stakeholders across large organizations
• Experience with entertainment/media experience

The Perks

• Exclusive WarnerMedia events and advance screenings

• Paid time off every year to volunteer for eligible employees

• Access to well-being tools, resources, and freebies

• Access to in-house learning and development resources

• Part of the WarnerMedia family of powerhouse brands