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Senior Data Scientist - User Interface Experimentation
Netflix
Los Gatos, CA, United States
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Netflix maintains a relentless focus on experimentation to continually improve our product. We are seeking a talented and passionate data scientist to help drive innovation for our user interfaces on mobile, web, and television devices used by over 93 million members throughout the globe. This is a high-impact position where your statistical analysis and interpretation of test results will have a direct and high impact on product decisions. Nearly all product changes are tested before productization: recent tests included improving the TV browsing experience with video previews and selecting the best artwork for videos.
Responsibilities:
• Partner closely with product management leadership, designers, and engineers to design and analyze experiments that drive key product decisions.
• Proactively perform data exploration on user behavior to discover future testing opportunities.
• Research the best metrics to measure user engagement.
• Lead the research and development of new experimentation methods and statistical techniques that could sharpen or speed up decision making.
• Present your research and insights to all levels of the company, clearly and concisely.
Qualifications:
• PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, Econometrics or related field
• 5+ years relevant experience with a proven track record of leveraging massive amounts of data to drive product innovation
• Strong statistical knowledge and intuition - ideally utilized in A/B testing or other experimentation setting
• Strong SQL skills
• Strong Programming skills in Python or R
• Experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (Hive, Pig, Presto, Spark)
• Data visualization skills to convey information and results clearly
• Deep product sense
• Ability to work independently and drive your own projects
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• A fan of Netflix is a strong plus
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