A newly created opportunity exists for a Direct of Data Science to join one of the biggest video platforms in the world in their expanding NYC office. As part of its growing activities, they are looking to enforce their programmatic and monetization product by building their own video ad stack to deliver new monetization solution for their own ecosystem around online, mobile and TV, and provide innovative marketing solutions for advertisers.

Key Responsibilities

The Director of Data Science for Ad-Tech will lead a global team of Data Scientists and be responsible for leading fast paced, industry changing initiatives from idea conception to deployment and operations.

Your Responsibilities:
• Work across different verticals of behavioral science, NLP, and probabilistic scoring at scale and speed

• Review, direct, guide the analytical work of entire team

• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of the data used for analysis

• Selecting and engineering features to build and optimize prediction and classification systems

• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods

• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems

What you need:
• Understanding of online advertising technologies and ecosystem (Ad-Tech Background)

• Predictive modeling experience

• Management experience

• Excellent understanding and experience of machine learning techniques (eg k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Networks, etc.)

• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, NLP, Weka, NumPy, MatLab.

• Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language like Java, Scala, or Python

• Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable

o Great business sense and communication skills
Proficiency in using query languages (SQL, Hive, Pig…) and in MySQL or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase)

o Consultative nature, with a proven track record of using data to provide actionable business results

One of the largest video sharing platforms in the world, their global monetization program is based on the distribution of video content, offering a mix of content from users, independent creators and premium partners.

Based in a central Manhattan location, this organization offers great benefits and the opportunity to work in a creative environment with a culture similar to a start-up but with the stability of a larger business.