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Vice President, Business Intelligence & Data Science
Starz Entertainment
New York, NY, United States
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Starz is currently seeking business intelligence and data science leader to join the Insights and Analytics department. She/he will serve as a change agent in the company – developing and implementing next generation dashboards, predictive models, and marketing automation.
The candidate will be highly collaborative and work cross-functionally to help the Insights & Analytics team provide actionable insights to the business units. The role is highly visible and includes senior management stakeholders within the marketing, product, IT, and development departments.
Responsibilities:
• Work closely with SVP, Insight & Analytics to build advanced dashboards, predictive/prescriptive models, and automated marketing tools.
• Lead organization’s efforts to develop advanced predictive models to reduce marketing costs, increase customer
• LTV, understand content value, and make more efficient content investment decision
• Manage small internal and extensive external team of data scientists to build models
• Present models and methodology to senior management and socialize results and learnings to organization to drive business decisions
• Partner with internal stakeholders and owners to ensure all product, customer, and marketing data is thoroughly and accurately captured, cleaned, and made available on timely basis to Insights analytical and data product tools
• Work closely with all members of Insights & Analytics teams to define requirements for ad hoc descriptive and predictive analytics
Required Skills:
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields; Advanced degree in Machine Learning, Statistics or related fields
• 10-15 years’ experience handling, modeling, and extracting insights from mid to large scale data sets
• 10+ years managing internal and third party data science teams
• Demonstrated ability to build statistical/machine learning software modules and libraries/applications using modern programming languages (Python preferred)
• Significant experience developing LTV, churn, and other customer focused models
• Significant experience developing content valuation and viewership prediction models a significant plus, but not a requirement
• Significant experience working with data from and automating marketing functions on the major digital and social ad platforms, e.g. Facebook, Google Ad Words/DCM/DBM, etc
• Strong communications skills, including the abilities to distill and relay data to a variety of audiences, including senior executives
• Experience working in corporate setting while having comfort with startup-like environment – experiment, fail fast, discern and share intelligence.
• Ability to multitask and work on multiple ongoing projects, with minimal oversight, documentation, and defined process
• Experience in the television industry a significant plus, but not a requirement
• Limited travel to Denver and LA
STARZ (www.starz.com), a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), is a leading global media and entertainment company that provides premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay television networks and produces and distributes content for worldwide audiences, including its investment in the STARZ PLAY Arabia OTT service.
STARZ is the ultimate destination for obsessable TV, movies and more. Characters who pull you in and stories that stay with you. From bold Original Series to the best movies, whatever you love, STARZ ignites your passions.
STARZ offers a competitive compensation package and an attractive benefits program to all eligible employees including a variety of healthcare plans, dental and vision insurance, 401k, life/disability insurance. Eligible employees will enjoy paid time off in the form of vacation and company holidays.
STARZ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that all applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of gender, age, race, national origin, disability, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, STARZ will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.