Senior Data Scientist

A Senior Data Scientist job description involves leading complex analytics projects, developing advanced AI/ML models (like generative AI), mentoring junior staff, and translating technical insights into strategic business actions for stakeholders.

• Develops and maintains the data science vision & roadmap for our studio business units, primarily Theatrical and Content Sales.
• Lead complex analytics project and develop advanced AI/ML models
• Lead and grow a team of Data Scientists, establishing best practices in experimentation, causal inference, and MLOps
• Translate technical insights into strategic business actions for stakeholders
• Drive data-driven business decision-making for revenue optimization.
• Drive experimentation at scale (A/B, multivariate, adaptive methods like multi armed bandits) and codify guardrails for metrics, lift, and governance across product surfaces.
• Build production grade models (predictive, NLP, CV, generative) and pipelines for recommendations, classification, content valuation, and forecasting; enforce model monitoring and responsible AI.
• Develop predictive models for Sales Planning and forecasting
• Partner with Finance & Content Sales to operationalize models into decision workflows; deliver dashboards and executive-ready narratives.
• Design and scale greenlight frameworks: integrate sales demand signals, competitive intelligence, and financial risk metrics.
• Operationalize data: define high quality feature stores, curate canonical datasets (viewing, engagement, metadata, rights), and ensure privacy, lineage, and compliance.
• Ensure governance and compliance: data lineage, privacy, and responsible AI in financial modeling.
• Communicate impact to executives with clear narratives, dashboards, and decision memos; translate complex analyses for non-technical audiences.