Principal Data Scientist - AI & Media Insights

BBC Studios; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 78,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London Weighting Allowance

Job summary

BBC Studios is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to drive data-driven decision making across its diverse lines of business. You will lead high-impact data science projects, shape problem statements, and guide production deployment of models while collaborating with senior stakeholders.

The role focuses on advancing our data capabilities, educating the organization about data science, and championing the value of insights to BBC Studios’ strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in a data science or closely related role.
• A degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science or related field.
• A background working in media, customer research or related area.
• A hands-on approach to problem solving, from understanding the impact down to mathematical details.
• Excellent 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 shaping projects and translating vague business problems into practical solutions.
• Experience interacting with senior stakeholders and leading technical workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science projects across our different lines of business.
• Drive Studios’ capabilities to power data driven decision making, including automated tagging and other metadata focussed solutions to enhace discoverability and recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership in defining problem statements, and selecting the most appropriate algorithmic approaches and data sources.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of data science projects, from ideation and proof of concept through to production.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business, clearly communicating insights, impact, and recommendations.
• Keep up to date with latest development in generative AI and apply where appropriate.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine learning

Stakeholder management

Data science

Problem solving

Production deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/Statistics/CS

Job description

BBC Studios is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to drive data-driven decision making across its diverse lines of business. You will lead high-impact data science projects, shape problem statements, and guide production deployment of models while collaborating with senior stakeholders.

The role focuses on advancing our data capabilities, educating the organization about data science, and championing the value of insights to BBC Studios’ strategic objectives.