Data Scientist II - Data Analytics, Hyderabad

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of. Who We Are… When 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… From 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. Data Scientist II - Data Analytics, Hyderabad   About Warner Bros. Discovery : Warner Bros. Discovery's Global Technology organization sits at the intersection of technology, entertainment, and everyday utility. Our platform powers experiences across streaming, content delivery, personalization, subscriptions, commerce, and analytics for millions of customers worldwide. As a technology organization, we build scalable, data-driven products that enable Warner Bros. Discovery's continued growth and support our streaming platforms.   For more information, please visit www.wbd.com   Meet Our Team :   The Commerce & Growth Analytics team works across acquisition and retention sciences, partnering with Product, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to understand how customers discover, subscribe, activate, and retain Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming products. We develop and support strategic analytical products and measurement frameworks, combining advanced analytics, statistics, experimentation, machine learning, and scalable data engineering to generate actionable insights that influence activation, monetization, and revenue growth across global markets. Working with large-scale behavioral, subscription, authentication, and payment data, we solve complex business problems and drive data-informed decision-making across the organization.     About the Role : As a Data Scientist focused on Retention within Commerce & Growth Analytics, you will be responsible for building machine learning solutions that help understand, predict, and improve customer retention and long-term engagement across WBD's streaming products. You will work on projects from research and exploratory analysis to model development and deployment, following guidance and direction from senior data scientists. You will work closely with cross-functional partners across Product, Design, Commerce, Content, and Marketing to translate retention challenges into data-driven solutions.   Roles & Responsibilities: Research, design, and build high-impact end-to-end machine learning systems that drive customer retention and long-term engagement.   Develop churn, propensity, and customer-lifetime-value (LTV) models to identify at-risk customers and inform retention and win-back strategies.   Perform exploratory data analysis to uncover behavioral drivers of churn and retention and turn findings into actionable insights.   Participate in the design of scalable ML solutions in production.   Promote and role-model best practices of data science, engineering, and communication throughout the organization.   Evangelize ML adoption and innovation across the product and engineering teams.   Foster a diverse community of data scientists and ML engineers.   Partner with cross-functional teammates in Product, Design, Commerce, Content, and Marketing to understand their problems and design solutions.   What to Bring: M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Quant, or a related field.   3+ years of building products with Machine Learning and Personalization.   Strong proficiency in SQL and Python (pandas), with hands-on experience using PySpark on large, distributed datasets.   Strong data