Data Scientist

Melotech; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote work

Global offsites

Job summary

Melotech is seeking its first dedicated Data Scientist to turn unstructured data into strategic insights. You will autonomously source data, build ML models for content virality, and own dashboards that influence leadership decisions.

Collaboration with engineering and product teams is essential, with a focus on speed and impact in a remote-friendly environment. You should bring 3+ years of hands-on data science, strong Python/SQL skills, experience with data acquisition, experiments, and

Qualifications

• Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Math or a related quantitative field.
• 3+ years of hands-on data science in fast-paced environments (startups, Big Tech, media, or consulting).
• Expert Python and SQL, experience with ML frameworks and data pipelines.
• Proven ability to access hard-to-reach data and derive actionable insights.
• Experience deploying models to production and maintaining them long-term.

Responsibilities

• Ingest new data sources with scraping and acquisition techniques.
• Analyze trends and audience behavior across streaming and social data.
• Prototype and deploy ML models for virality prediction and content analysis on AWS.
• Design and interpret A/B tests and experiments to guide decisions.
• Own dashboards and reports used by leadership to track metrics.
• Leverage AI-native tools to accelerate cleaning, analysis, and reporting.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data scraping

Experiment design

Production ML

Dashboards

Collaboration

AI-native workflows

Education

Data Science / Statistics / CS degree

Tools

AWS

Tableau

LLMs / agentic coding tools

Job description

Who We Are

Melotech is revolutionizing media and entertainment. We create art through technology for humans to enjoy. In just 24 months, our work has been heard, watched and loved for over 4 billion minutes worldwide.

Who We Are

Melotech is revolutionizing media and entertainment. We create art through technology for humans to enjoy. In just 24 months, our work has been heard, watched and loved for over 4 billion minutes worldwide. Founded by entrepreneur and investor Soheil Mirpour, we are backed by top VCs Cherry Ventures, Speedinvest and GFC, alongside world-class angels from firms such as Spotify, Blackstone and KKR.

What You Will Do

Join us as our first dedicated Data Scientist to bring order to the chaos of culture. You'll extract insights from hard-to-reach data sources to tackle the big questions: What cultural trends are emerging that everyone else is missing? How can we predict virality? And what characterizes an underserved category? We sit on a lot of data we do not use yet, and you are the person who turns it into decisions. You work fully autonomously alongside our founder and the team, next to a backend engineer who owns the pipelines and infrastructure, so your time goes into the questions rather than the plumbing. On a typical day, your tasks may include:

• 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

Who You Are

We look for battle-tested data scientists who understand that real impact comes from turning messy, unstructured data into business-critical insights that drive company direction. You don't just build models: you solve business problems by finding creative ways to access hard-to-reach data and translating statistical findings into actions the team takes.

Typically, Your Profile Will Look Like This

• Background: a degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Math or a related quantitative field
• Experience: 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
• Python: expert-level proficiency with the standard data science and ML frameworks, and SQL as a daily tool
• Data acquisition: you have scraped and acquired raw data from new sources, building creative solutions to reach datasets beyond standard APIs
• Statistical rigour: 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
• Models in production: you have deployed models that people actually used, and you know what it takes to keep them honest over time
• AI-native: extensive hands-on experience with agentic coding tools and LLMs in your data workflows
• From data to decision: 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
• Collaboration: you work well across engineering, product and business teams, and colleagues would describe you as hard-working, ambitious and persistent
• Pace: you thrive in a fast-paced and performance-oriented environment
• A big plus: you're obsessed with music, video or social media

What Makes This Exciting

You are one of the first employees of an ambitious team, changing the world of media and entertainment. Being early means every decision you make shapes our trajectory. You're not a cog in the machine but the captain of your own ship, rewarded for performance and respected for leadership. Flat hierarchies mean that your voice matters, your ideas get implemented, and your impact is immediate.

We pay competitive salaries and make you an owner of the business with equity. We work remotely to give you complete freedom over your life, while meeting regularly around the world for global offsites where we strategize, bond, and push boundaries together.

What The Process Will Look Like

We hire on a rolling basis. Earliest starting date is always ASAP.

Once You Begin Our Process, You Can Progress From Start To Offer Within a Week, Depending On How Quickly You Can Move Through Each Stage

• Initial interview: 30-minute introductory call, getting to know you
• Case interview: 90-minute case discussion, present and debate your skills
• Founder interview: 90-minute interview with our CEO, going deep on all topics
• Offer, contract signing and onboarding

Note: As we are still in stealth, you will learn more about Melotech as you progress through the stages. By the end of the Founder interview, you will have a full grasp of our business and the details of your role.