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Director, Data Science
Integral Ad Science
New York, NY, United States
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We are seeking a Director, Data Scientist to join our team in New York City.
The Data Science team at Integral is a high profile team that is a center of innovation for the company and a major contributor to the company’s core products. The types of challenges we solve have attracted people from industry and academia with diverse backgrounds, ranging from machine learning, physics, biology, neuroscience, and computer science to finance and economics. We’re passionate about maintaining an open and collaborative environment, where team members bring their own unique style of thinking and tools to the table.
Responsibilities:
• Work on challenging fundamental data science problems in online advertising
• Propose and develop solutions independently and leading a group of other data scientists
• Prepare white papers, scientific publications, and conference presentations
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to identify and answer important product questions
• Communicate findings to product managers and engineers
• Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
• Analyze and interpret the results
• Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams
Requirements:
• Ph.D. in a relevant technical (machine learning, computer science, physics, mathematics, statistics, or related field), or 4+ years experience in a relevant role
• Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches using machine learning methods
• Track record of using advanced statistical methods, information retrieval, data mining techniques
• Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
• A strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
• A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
• Fluency with at least one scripting language such as Python
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
• Expert knowledge of an analysis tool such as R or Matlab
• Experience working with large data sets, experience working with distributed computing tools a plus (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, etc.)
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global technology and data company that builds verification, optimization, and analytics solutions to empower the advertising industry to effectively influence consumers everywhere, on every device. We solve the most pressing problems for brands, agencies, publishers, and technology companies by verifying that every impression has the opportunity to be effective, optimizing towards opportunities to consistently improve results, and analyzing digital’s impact on consumer actions. Built on data science and engineering, IAS is headquartered in New York with global operations in ten countries. Our growth and innovation have been recognized in Inc. 500, Crain’s Fast 50, Forbes America’s Most Promising Companies, and I-COM’s Smart Data Marketing Technology Company. IAS was also named to Crain’s Best Places to Work in NYC for the past four years, Great Companies to Work For in NYS, and AdAge's list of Best Places to Work in the US the past two years.
To learn more about us, please visit www.integralads.com or http://bit.ly/glassdoorIAS
Equal Opportunity Employer:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vet
Attention agency/3rd party recruiters: IAS does not accept any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles. If you are interested in becoming an IAS recruiting partner, please send an email introducing your company to recruitingagencies@integralads.com. We will get back to you if there's interest in a partnership.