Data Science, Music & Audio
Melotech
Seniority
Midweight
Model
Remote
Sector
Salary
Undisclosed
Contract
Full-Time
About the role
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 factors characterize an underserved category?
What you'll do
- Discovering and exploiting new, untapped data sources through creative scraping techniques
- Building data processing pipelines from scratch to handle raw, unstructured data
- Using LLMs and agentic coding tools to accelerate data cleaning and analysis workflows
- Spinning up EC2 instances for real-time data collection and automated scraping operations
- Prototyping and deploying ML models on AWS for real-time predictions and content analysis
- Creating custom dashboards and reports to communicate insights to leadership
- Analyzing trends, audience behavior, and performance metrics to guide business decisions
What you'll need
- Degree in Data Science, Statistics, CS, Physics, Math, or related quantitative/technical field
- 3+ years of hands-on data science experience in fast-paced business environments across Tier 1 consultancies, Big Tech companies, high-growth start-ups and scale-ups, or media industry leaders
- Expert-level Python proficiency with standard data science and ML frameworks
- Experience scraping and acquiring raw data from new sources, building creative solutions to access hard-to-reach datasets beyond standard APIs
- Extensive hands-on experience with agentic coding tools and LLMs for data workflows
- Production model deployment experience including infrastructure and monitoring
- Advanced data visualization skills using standard libraries or Tableau
- Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, and business teams
What they offer
- Competitive salaries and equity ownership
- Remote work with complete freedom over your life
- Regular global offsites for strategy, bonding, and pushing boundaries
- Flat hierarchies where your voice matters and ideas get implemented
- Direct impact on company trajectory as one of the first employees
