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Plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441.The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.\nWe're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.\nWE ARE BBC STUDIOS\nA globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.\nOur ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.\nPURPOSE OF THE ROLE\nThe way BBC Studios operates has changed significantly over the last 5 years. It has moved into new areas of business and alongside that has developed the data capabilities required to support a modern organisation. We have built a successful data science team and are looking for a principal data scientist to join us, working across the different BBC Studios’ lines of business.\nWHY JOIN THE TEAM\nWe have built a successful data science team and are looking for a Principal Data Scientist. You will be working across all of BBC Studios’ lines of business to understand where data science can make a difference. As data remains a developing capability within BBC Studios, this role will be central to driving data education and supporting the organisation’s cultural evolution. This role will play a critical role in the education and culture change we are bringing to the business and act as a champion for the Data Science team, promoting its work and building understanding of the value data driven insights can bring to BBC Studio.\nYOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:\nLead data science projects across our different lines of business. For commercial News, it might be automated decision-making to chose between subscription prompts and adverts, or for TV commissioning it could be developing synthetic audiences as an alternative to traditional surveys.\nDrive Studios’ capabilities to power data driven decision making, including automated tagging and other metadata focussed solutions to enhace discoverability and recommendations.\nProvide technical leadership in defining problem statements, and selecting the most appropriate algorithmic approaches and data sources. \nOwn the end-to-end delivery of data science projects, from ideation and proof of concept through to production.\nCollaborate closely with stakeholders across the business, clearly communicating insights, impact, and recommendations.\nKeep up to date with latest development in generative AI and apply where appropriate.\nYOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE\nESSENTIAL CRITERIA:\nStrong experience in a data science or closely related role.\nA degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science or related field.\nA background working in media, customer research or related area.\nA hands-on approach to problem solving, from understanding the impact down to mathematical details.\nExcellent programming skills with Python.\nGood working knowledge of SQL and experience querying large datasets.\nExperience building machine learning models and deploying them into production.\nExperience shaping projects and translating vague business problems into practical solutions.\nExperience interacting with senior stakeholders and leading technical workstreams.\nIf 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\nNEXT STEPS\nWe appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. 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