Head of Recommendations Platform

At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production companies. From live sports and films to music and our own original shows, our purpose is to tell stories, touch lives and expand worlds. We’re now launching our Viaplay streaming service in a wide range of new markets and aiming to become the international streaming challenger. As a Nordic company with a global perspective and clear values, we’re looking for the best talents to join us on our journey. 

Whether it’s on Viaplay or other customer facing channel, the Recommendations Platform team in the Data Science org weaves together personalized content scores from our ML teams with real-time data about the customer context to generate a fresh, always on, and on-point content recommendation experience. As a key member of Viaplay’s personalization ecosystem, you will contribute to the page generation strategy (i.e., how are titles prioritized for every customer), working with the Data Science Leadership team (the VP of Data Science and the Head of Applied Machine Learning) as well as Content and Product orgs. 

You will lead, grow, and coach a team of software developers and set a culture that fosters their professional development. As the team has production-grade services that support the Viaplay experience, you will define metrics and OKRs to drive measured improvements in the recommendation experience and guide the development of service architecture that allows for content recommendation systems to evolve.  

You are naturally curious and are unafraid of thinking about problems from what it means for the customer, its implications for how data should be designed and what software development paradigms are most appropriate. As it takes a village to build personalization systems, you think about your work not only in terms of your team’s contributions but also in terms of the overall ecosystem that makes personalization possible. 

• 5+ years as a senior technical, comfortable with translating technical concepts for less technical audiences while guiding the development process with engineering teams. 
• Comfortable serving as a technical mentor and is invested in personal development. 
• Asks questions that not only consider the customer perspective but also the technical implications of new developments. 
• Interested in experimenting and pushing new ideas and learning from those experiences. 
• Values the importance of strong operations and maintenance practices of technical stack to ensure consistent system performance. 
• Experience of working in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS). 
• Excellent communication skills 

We are a company that prioritises people over everything else — from every single employee to every single one of our millions of customers. What unites us all at Viaplay Group is our passion to create meaningful moments and evoke emotions with our content.

• A hybrid work set-up.
• Freedom to try out new things and independent decision-making by our autonomous teams. 
• A place to grow and learn from our mistakes. We have a learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training and regular internal technical talks, demos, mentorship program and guilds. 
• An innovative environment with Hack Days two times a year. 
• An international and diverse environment with people from all over the world working here. We have 35+ different nationalities in the team coming from different backgrounds. 
• An attractive offer with a beneficial occupational pension plan, insurance plan, health care, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible work hours and parental leave pay lift. 

Bravery, Equality, Appreciation and Trust are our Viaplay Group values — and together, they form a powerful BEAT.

If this feels like your kind of challenge, please apply and attach your CV and cover letter through our career page. We do not accept applications through email. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our recruiter.

Viaplay Group AB (publ.) is committed to equality and diversity and we welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and marital status. We want to make sure your recruitment experience is the best it can be – so, if you’re selected for an interview, please let us know if there are any adjustments we can make that would be helpful for you.

Viaplay Group AB (publ.) is the Nordic region’s leading entertainment provider. We entertain millions of people every day with our streaming services, TV channels and radio stations, and our production companies create content that is experienced around the world. We make life more entertaining by telling stories, touching lives and expanding worlds – from live sports, movies and series to music and original shows. Headquartered in Stockholm, Viaplay Group is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (‘VPLAY A’ and ‘VPLAY B’)

Streaming services, radio networks, TV and production companies. It's our mission to create compelling stories that reach beyond media outlets and touch people's lives.