Data Scientist (L5) - Ads (Forecasting)

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

In April 2022, we announced that we are creating a new lower-priced, ad-supported tier for our customers. We are now working toward our goal of providing more choice for consumers and a premium, better-than-linear TV brand experience for advertisers. That said, we are looking for the founding members of this new business area for Netflix! 

The Ads Data Science and Engineering team at Netflix’s mission is to help build the foundation of the ads business at Netflix. We conduct analyses and develop analytic tools, build predictive models and algorithms using machine learning, all with the goal of creating more choices and joy for our members. You’ll work closely with partner teams to build workflows, provide recommendations and drive success on end-to-end analytics initiatives in this 0 -1 space.

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist who can help with problems like Inventory/Demand Forecasting, Ad Server Simulation, and Yield Optimization.

As a Data Scientist, you will be partnering with a diverse range of cross-functional business partners to uncover new opportunities, design, execute, and analyze experiments, and deliver solutions that have significant business impact and implications for our users. You will help drive innovations through effective identification and application of analytics, machine learning, time series, and experimentation. This is a high-impact role in which you will have direct influence on how product decisions are made. 

In this role, you will:

• Apply modeling and machine learning techniques to business problems at the intersection of product and data science

• Autonomously identify and pursue research with significant business impact, and make compelling cases for prioritization and resource allocation

• Proactively perform data exploration on engagement behaviors to discover future opportunities

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders from product, engineering, operations, design, consumer research, etc., to develop and deploy models at scale

• Deliver well-documented datasets, tools, and reports to key technical and business partners

• Identify, compute and validate the appropriate metrics to measure success in a product area

• Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders from product, engineering, operations, design, consumer research, etc.

• Present your research and insights to all levels of the company

We are looking for:

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics or related quantitative field

• 5+ years of relevant experience with large-scale data 

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

• Strong product knowledge and intuition - ideally utilized in consumer/user interface settings or internally serving technical audiences such as engineers.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate and drive product change across a variety of stakeholders 

• Strong SQL skills

• Strong Quantitative Programming skills in Python

• Ability to work independently and drive your own projects

• Ability to communicate technical and statistical concepts clearly and concisely among audiences at many different levels.  

• Embodies the Netflix values while bringing a new perspective to continue improving our culture

• Plus: Experience in building real-world machine learning models with demonstrated impact

• Plus: Experience in building production-grade, large-scale machine learning systems

• Plus: Experience creating data products and dashboards 

• Plus: Familiarity with software engineering practice and working with APIs

• Plus: Knowledge of Ad Serving components such as Targeting, Policy, Privacy, Frequency Caps, Contention, Auction, and Budget Planning

• Plus: Experience with GenAI applications to boost developer productivity

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $170,000 - $720,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.