Data Scientist I

Position: Data Science Analyst/Data Scientist I, Content Discovery

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Every great story has a new beginning.

We’re excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. We’re a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. Our mission is simple. To be the world’s best storytellers with world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s DTC technology and product organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

Meet Our Team:

We are part of Core Streaming products group for Direct-2-Consumer business and responsible for Content Discovery through Search capabilities for HBO Max and Discovery Plus platforms. Our Search & Knowledge Graph teams. Mission of our Search & KG team is to provide a delightful targeted and differential search experience to our ~ 100 Million global user base.

We are hiring a Data Science Manager to lead our Data Science Team. The ideal candidate has a track record of creating the identity for engineering teams and defining how those teams work within a larger organization. You have mastered the ability to delegate both tasks, and larger assignments to your ICs and ensure that the right results are achieved even without your constant oversight. You are a technical leader that executives turn to when they want to build something new as you can align with company priorities and processes and create new ones where needed.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Work with managers and business stakeholders to fully understand business requirements and the desired outcomes of their science and analytics needs.

• Build relationships with product and machine learning stakeholders to understand and advance their data needs in a holistic manner across multiple projects.

• Implement data structures that help WBD leadership make high-value business decisions. Visualize the team’s findings for senior management using tools such as Tableau.

• Extract, clean, and map data from multiple sources into cohesive analysis and reports.

• Perform exploratory and predictive analysis with SQL, Python, R

• Create and update comprehensive documentation on workflows, pipelines, and other data processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics or related field and 5 years experience as a data analyst, data engineer, data scientist or related position

• Proficiency in SQL and hands-on experience with relational databases is a must

• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Looker

• 1+ year of experience with the following is preferred:

• Amazon Web Services or similar cloud computing platform;

• Project management;

• Linux based command lines;

• Script execution;

• Tableau, Looker;

• SQL

• Python or R

• A desire to learn new programming languages, frameworks, and techniques both personally and on the job.

• Genuine interest in the rapidly changing media industry.

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.