Philo: a streaming service for TV and movie lovers
At Philo, we’re a group of technology and product people who set out to build the future of television, marrying the best in modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented — in short, we’re building the TV experience that we’ve always wanted for ourselves. In practice this means leveraging cloud delivery, modern tech stacks, machine learning, and hand-crafted native app experiences on all of our platforms. We aim to deliver a rock solid experience on the streaming basics, while cooking up next generation multi-screen and multi-user playback.
Data at Philo
Data underpins everything we do at Philo: making informed business decisions; analyzing and improving the quality of our streaming experience; running product experiments to optimize our signup flows and improve user journeys; and making it effortless for our users to find the perfect thing to watch. Philo serves over a billion streams to its users every year, generating a wealth of data that we leverage at all levels of the organization. Philo’s data pipeline processes nearly 8 trillion events per year into our petabyte scale data lake, where we run over 30k ETL and BI queries every day to bring data-driven insights to our team.
On the Data team, we’re looking for people who are comfortable working on a variety of interesting engagement, content discoverability, experimentation, acquisition, and retention-related problems across our streaming service. You’ll be working closely with other data scientists, analysts, and engineers to build and deploy solutions directly for our service. In addition, you’ll work with stakeholders in other departments to understand our business needs and deliver business-focused data insights to help the entire team thrive.
We are passionate about problem-solving and providing data-informed insights for the entire company, using both cutting-edge techniques and proven practices in close collaboration with every department. To complete our work we build on modern open-source tools including dbt, GrowthBook, Robyn, Superset, and PyTorch as well as SaaS tools such as Segment, Redshift, SageMaker, AWS Glue, Mode, Avo, and BigEye.
Some of the recent projects our Data Science team members have worked on include:
The role
Philo is seeking a Head of Data to lead our growing team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts – an effective, collaborative and empathetic leader who will help scale the team to meet our evolving data needs. This leader will work with stakeholders across the company to ensure that every department at Philo has the reliable and accurate data required to deliver the data-driven insights we need in order to achieve and exceed our goals as a company.
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More about Philo
At Philo, we’re a company that puts people first—both our subscribers and our team. Our philosophy is to empower our colleagues to do their best work while supporting each other in pursuing shared goals. We value pragmatism, pride in our work, and passion. Transparency and openness are fundamental to our company culture. We are committed to diversity and inclusion as we grow the Philo team and shape the future of TV. We believe that a diverse set of voices and perspectives on our team enables us to innovate faster and create the best experience for our subscribers.
Philo offers access to top-rated networks, including AMC, BET, CMT, Comedy Central, Discovery, Food Network, Hallmark, HGTV, History, Investigation Discovery, Lifetime, MTV, Nickelodeon, OWN, VH1, WE tv, and more, along with groundbreaking originals and blockbuster movies included with AMC+. Our service also includes 80+ free channels and premium add-ons like STARZ and MGM+.
Our extensive library boasts over 75,000 titles, and our unlimited DVR allows users to save their favorite shows and movies for up to a year, skipping ads for a seamless viewing experience. Stream on up to three devices simultaneously, whether on your phone, tablet, laptop, or TV using Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Samsung TV, Android TV, Vizio TV, or Chromecast.
Philo is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, MA. Our leadership team includes a co-founder of Facebook and alums from Meraki and HBO, backed by NEA and industry partners like Discovery, Viacom, AMC, and A&E.
Join us at Philo and be part of a team that's shaping the future of TV!
Status: Full-time
Location: San Francisco, CA or remote within the U.S.
Compensation: Includes annual salary between $240K - $300K depending on experience and location, company stock options and health benefits
We value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. Philo is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that everyone does their best work when they are supported by each other and the company, and we offer a generous set of benefits to make sure the Philo team is happy and healthy. Here is a sampling of the benefits we offer our team:
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