JOB BAND: D CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent LOCATION: London TVC - 2 days a week in office DEPARTMENT: Data Insights PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000 - £70,000, plus a London Weighting Allowance of £5,441.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The way BBC Studios operates has changed significantly over the last five years. We have built a successful data science team and are looking for a senior data scientist to join us, working across BBC Studios' lines of business to support decision making and drive data education.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
- Work on a range of projects supporting all lines of business - for commercial news, automated decision making for subscription prompts and adverts; for TV commissioning, developing synthetic audiences as an alternative to traditional surveys.
- Develop studios' capabilities to power data driven decision making, including automated tagging and other metadata focused solutions to enhance discoverability and recommendations.
- Use domain knowledge to select the appropriate algorithmic approach and data sources to solve a given problem.
- Discuss and implement the solution, from proof of concept to production.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business, clearly communicating insights, impact, and recommendations.
- Keep up to date with the latest developments in generative AI and apply where appropriate.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Experience in a data science or closely aligned role.
- A degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science or a related field.
- A hands on approach to problem solving, from understanding the impact down to mathematical details.
- Good programming skills with Python.
- Good working knowledge of SQL and experience querying large datasets.
- Experience building machine learning models and deploying them into production.
- Experience interacting with stakeholders and translating business problems into practical solutions.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief.