Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Melotech is hiring its first dedicated Data Scientist to turn underused, hard-to-reach data into business-critical insights and decisions. The role focuses on cultural trends, audience behavior, prediction models, experiments, trusted reporting, and AI-native data workflows.
Responsibilities
- New data sources: discovering and opening up untapped sources, with creative scraping and acquisition techniques when standard APIs run out
- Trends and audiences: analyzing trends, audience behavior and performance across streaming and social to find the underserved categories and the next growth opportunity, and proposing the next step
- Prediction: prototyping and deploying ML models on AWS for virality prediction and content analysis, and checking whether they hold up in production
- Experiments: designing and reading A/B tests, holdouts and spend experiments across our releases and campaigns, and telling the team where the next dollar should go
- Numbers people trust: owning the dashboards and reports leadership runs on, and investigating what really drives a metric when it moves
- AI-native workflows: using LLMs and agentic coding tools to accelerate data cleaning, analysis and reporting
Skills
- A degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Math or a related quantitative field
- 3 or more years of hands-on data science in fast-paced business environments, at Tier 1 consultancies, Big Tech, high-growth start-ups and scale-ups, or media industry leaders
- Expert-level proficiency with the standard data science and ML frameworks, and SQL as a daily tool
- You have scraped and acquired raw data from new sources, building creative solutions to reach datasets beyond standard APIs
- You design and read experiments properly, you know when a signal is noise, and you have run A/B tests or causal analyses that changed a decision
- You have deployed models that people actually used, and you know what it takes to keep them honest over time
- Extensive hands-on experience with agentic coding tools and LLMs in your data workflows
- You find the opportunity in the data and propose the next step, and your dashboards and visualizations (standard libraries or Tableau) are the ones leadership trusts
- You work well across engineering, product and business teams, and colleagues would describe you as hard-working, ambitious and persistent
- You thrive in a fast-paced and performance-oriented environment
- You're obsessed with music, video or social media
Benefits
- Equity ownership in the business.
- Remote work.
- Regular global offsites to strategize and connect.
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