Job Title: Applied Scientist
Location: New York, NY (Onsite role)
Contract Duration: 03 Months
(Extendable)
Job Description:
. Applied scientists
are specialists with deep expertise in areas such as machine learning,
natural language processing, computer vision, and predictive analytics. In
the MGM+ context, they apply scientific principles to enhance content
performance, audience engagement, and strategic decision-making by:
(a) Assessing the feasibility and timeline of new data science initiatives that
drive content acquisition, programming strategy, and subscriber growth through
significant algorithmic innovations
(b) Developing new algorithms or enhancing existing models to optimize content
recommendations, predict viewership patterns, analyze social media sentiment,
forecast subscriber behavior, and measure promotional campaign effectiveness
(c) Leveraging entertainment industry data—including streaming metrics, content
metadata, audience demographics, and competitive intelligence—to deliver
actionable insights that improve the MGM+ customer experience and business
impact
They maintain awareness of state-of-the-art techniques in media analytics,
entertainment data science, and streaming platform optimization, constantly
focused on advancing MGM+'s competitive position through data-driven
innovation.
Candidate Requirements
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Forecast/modeling
knowledge (how to predict consumer
behavior)
- customer
cohort analysis
- operates
in ambiguity
- media/entertainment
experience a plus
- SQL,
ETL, Excel/VBA, Python, Quick Suite, Generative AI
Years of Experience:
- 4-8
years
