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Director, Data Science
NBC Universal
New York, NY, United States
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About Us
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Responsibilities
The Management Science team helps drive "the art of the possible" for advanced analytics at NBCUniversal by building and integrating pragmatic data science principles and products throughout the Company. The Team focuses primarily on decision science analyses to inform strategy and key business decisions and building advanced data products to help enable more data-enhanced decision making.
Job Duties
Lead a team of Data Scientists in the design and execution of advanced analytical data exploration, mining, inference, models and systems utilizing multiple traditional and non-traditional media measurement data sets
Develop and deliver high-impact tools and insights comprised of aggregated data sets and advanced algorithms with a clean user experiences
Drive the collection and manipulation of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
Manage multiple priorities across a mix of ad-hoc and operational projects
Translate complex problems and solutions to all levels of the organization
Qualifications/Requirements
Basic Qualifications
5-8 years of experience in an advanced analytics or consulting role or similar experience in academia
Advanced Degree (Masters or Ph.D.) with a specialization in Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics or other quantitative field or equivalent
Experience and demonstrated proficiency in multiple data modeling and analytics techniques, including basis and advanced regression, regularization, clustering, and machine learning techniques
Working knowledge of multiple analytics and programming languages: R, Python, SAS, Julia, Java, Scala or similar
Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
Experience with data visualization techniques and concepts
Team-oriented and collaborative approach with a demonstrated aptitude and willingness to learn new methods and tools
Fine Print for Eligibility
If you think you’d be awesome in this role, please submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered
You must be willing to work in New York, NY
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with television ratings and digital measurement tools (Nielsen, Rentrak, comScore, Omniture, etc.)
Familiarity with Spark, Hive and/or Hadoop
PhD is a plus