Tech Stack
AirflowBigQueryCloudDockerNumpyPandasPythonScikit-LearnSQL
About the role
- Conduct deep exploratory data analysis on historical ticket sales, movie schedules, attendance trends, and promotional campaigns.
- Build robust pricing models and demand forecasting tools considering time, location, movie type, holidays, and social media buzz.
- Develop optimization algorithms for showtime scheduling across multiple screens and locations.
- Analyze promotional campaign effectiveness and build attribution models to optimize future marketing spend.
- Engineer relevant features from transactional, demographic, and behavioral data.
- Create initial PoC models and pipelines for pricing, scheduling, and promotions optimization.
- Collaborate with business and operations teams to define KPIs and translate business challenges into modeling tasks.
- Deliver interactive dashboards (Streamlit or similar) and reports to visualize model outputs and business insights.
- Document the model logic, assumptions, and performance for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Data Science roles with a proven track record of implementing production-level ML solutions.
- Uplift modelling
- Strong Python programming (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, XGBoost, Pyomo/OR-Tools for optimization).
- Experience in pricing strategies, time series forecasting, or operations research.
- Solid SQL skills for data extraction, transformation, and aggregation.
- Understanding of consumer behavior analytics and A/B testing methods.
- Experience with interactive data visualization tools (Plotly, Dash, Streamlit).
- Ability to quickly build and iterate on PoC solutions to validate ideas and showcase value.
- Mathematical background
- Applied statistics
- Nice to have: Experience with optimization in ticketing, entertainment, or retail industries.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with causal inference techniques and marketing mix models.
- Nice to have: Exposure to deployment tools (Docker, Airflow) and cloud data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake).
- Ability to work across teams and present to stakeholders with different technical backgrounds.