Head of Data

🕒 March 18

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $215k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

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Philo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

📱 Media

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $50M Series D on 2020-08

Media • Telecommunications

Philo is a streaming service offering access to a wide array of TV shows and movies. Geared towards viewers in the United States, Philo provides channels for entertainment enthusiasts seeking diverse content options. The service emphasizes user-friendly features and comprehensive support for devices, and it actively engages with its audience through blogs, press releases, and job opportunities, while maintaining a focus on privacy and accessibility.

📋 Description

• Own all things data at Philo: ensure that stakeholders at Philo have access to the timely and accurate data driven insights that they need to do their jobs. • Oversee the core data science work executed in cross-functional teams to drive product goals, including product experiments and A/B tests, Growth & Acquisition modeling, and product insights, including customer journey analysis and measuring effectiveness of content search and recommendation systems. • Own the quality and performance of the data platform at Philo, including platform architecture and instrumentation, data collection/processing/validation, data governance, and security and compliance. • Ensure that we are collecting the right data and events, processing them in a scalable and modular way, and building a foundation of reliable data that teams across the company can build insights from. • Collaborate closely with the engineering team and AI/ML engineers to support the development and delivery of Philo’s content recommendation system. • Collaborate closely with data roles in our business and finance teams (business insights, business analysts and financial analysts) to help them build a deep understanding of the Philo business, customers, and content trends. • Manage the data team: train, mentor and coach members of the data team, direct their work and support their career growth; identify the roles we need as we grow and hire fantastic people to fill those roles.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience across analytics, data science, data engineering, or related data functions, with significant proven experience leading multidisciplinary data teams through ambiguity, in both a strategy and personnel management capacity. (Startup experience preferred.) • Strong skills as a hands-on data scientist who can lead by example, including demonstrated understanding of data architecture, statistical modeling in either Python or R (Python preferred), A/B/n experimentation practices, SQL, and experience independently developing data driven insights. Demonstrated ability to train and coach team members in these skills. • Strong written and verbal communication skills; you are a strong communicator who can explain complex trends, data findings and analytical methodology to broad audiences with varying technical backgrounds. • A deep understanding of business priorities and the ability to partner with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment (or ability to adapt to this environment very quickly). • Experience in consumer subscription, streaming, media, ad-supported products, or other event-rich digital businesses is preferred. • Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning is a strong plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family • 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay) • Flexible working hours • Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave • Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave • $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation) • $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance • $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter) • $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco) • Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps • Dog-friendly office • And much more!