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Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.\nWho We Are…\nWhen we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…\nFrom brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.\nData Scientist II, Hyderabad\nAbout Warner Bros. Discovery:\nWarner Bros. Discovery is a premier global media and entertainment company with an iconic portfolio of content, brands, and franchises across television, film, streaming, sports, news, and gaming. We connect audiences around the world to the stories, experiences, and moments they love.\nFor more information, please visit www.wbd.com.\nMeet Our Team:\nWarner Bros. Discovery brings together iconic entertainment, news, sports, and digital brands including HBO Max, CNN, Discovery+, DC, Warner Bros., Bleacher Report, and Food Network. Within the SPARK organization, our Hyderabad data science and machine learning teams transform first-party audience signals into capabilities that power identity, audience intelligence, advertising, personalization, forecasting, engagement, and retention.\nOur Data Scientists partner closely with Machine Learning Engineering, Product, Data Engineering, Ad Sales, and business teams to frame the right problems, build rigorous models and measurement approaches, and turn insight into measurable product and business impact.\nWe work primarily with Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS, and we are early adopters of modern AI and agentic development workflows where they help us improve quality, speed, and repeatability.\nAbout the Role:\nAs a Data Scientist, you will be a hands-on modeling and experimentation leader for WBD’s consumer platforms. You will translate complex product and business questions into measurable data science opportunities, build models and evaluation frameworks, and partner with Machine Learning Engineering to bring validated solutions into production. Your work will directly influence identity resolution, audience intelligence, personalization, retention, engagement, advertising effectiveness, and customer experience across WBD's global streaming platforms.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nData Science & Modeling: Build and improve models for probabilistic identity resolution, audience modeling, segmentation, content affinity, genre-preference modeling, forecasting, fraud and abuse detection, promo optimization, personalization, and lifecycle engagement. \nExperimentation & Measurement: Design experiments, evaluation frameworks, baselines, success metrics, and promotion criteria that measure both model quality and business impact. \nProduction Partnership: Partner with Machine Learning Engineers to move validated models into scalable production pipelines with clear expectations for reproducibility, monitoring, drift detection, data quality, calibration, and long-term model health. \nBusiness Problem Framing: Work with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, Ad Sales, and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous opportunities into well-scoped data science solutions. \nInsight to Impact: Communicate findings, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. \nTechnical Quality: Help define reusable standards for feature and label quality, leakage prevention, model evaluation, documentation, experimentation rigor, and production readiness. \nWhat to Bring\n3-5 years of hands-on experience building data science, statistical modeling, or machine learning solutions for real-world products or business systems. \nStrong ability to translate business problems into hypotheses, data science problem statements, success metrics, and actionable recommendations. \nDeep practical knowledge of statistical modeling, machine learning fundamentals, causal inference, experimentation, forecasting, ranking, recommendation, calibration, and model evaluation. \nStrong programming and analytical skills in Python and SQL; experience with Spark or large-scale distributed data processing is strongly preferred. \nHands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, MLflow, notebooks, experiment tracking, or similar data and ML tools. \nExperience partnering with Machine Learning Engineering or platform teams to operationalize models, \nAbility to collaborate effectively with Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Finance, Ad Sales, and business stakeholders in a global environment. \nExcellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical methods, model tradeoffs, uncertainty, and business implications to varied audiences. \nYou’ll Be Successful If You\nEnjoy turning ambiguous business problems into clear, measurable opportunities for data science and machine learning. \nCare deeply about experimentation quality, model reliability, and real-world impact. \nCommunicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners. \nInfluence technical direction through collaboration, evidence, and sound judgment. \nEnjoy working across data science, engineering, product, and business teams to solve meaningful problems. \nOur Technology Stack:\nPrimary platforms: Databricks, AWS \nWarehouse: Snowflake \nLanguages: Python, SQL; Scala as needed \nML and data tools: Spark, MLflow, notebooks, experiment tracking, model evaluation frameworks \nActivation contexts: Personalization systems, Mosaic, FreeWheel, Google Ad Manager, and related audience activation platforms where applicable \nPreferred:\nMaster’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, or a related quantitative field. \nExperience in streaming, media, advertising technology, consumer identity, fraud, recommendations, personalization, forecasting, lifecycle engagement, or audience intelligence. \nExperience with uplift modeling, causal impact analysis, lookalike modeling, clean-room or DCR analysis, graph-based methods, or multi-objective optimization. \nExperience building reusable evaluation frameworks, model quality standards, or scalable data science patterns across teams. \nWhat We Offer:\nA great place to work. \nEqual opportunity employer. \nFast-track growth opportunities. \nHow We Get Things Done…\nThis last bit is probably the most important! 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