The data scientist will work with large online advertising data sets to find patterns using statistical data mining and machine learning methods. The scientist will proactively provide data-driven answers to clients’ business questions (e.g., about advertising campaign effectiveness and optimization). The scientist will collaborate with product development team to turn prototypes into product, and with client services team to effectively address clients’ data analytics questions and requests.

Responsibilities Include:

• Researching new techniques for improving online advertising campaigns.
• Prototyping data-driven predictive models and data analysis products.
• Understanding business questions and formulating data analysis and modeling problems.
• Communicating data analysis and modeling results effectively to clients.

Required Skills:

• MS or PhD in data mining, machine learning, statistics, business analytics, or a related field.
• Proficient in understanding and mapping business data analytics problems to solvable data modeling problems.
• Experience with business data analysis, predictive modeling, including model development, validation, and comparison.
• Experience with SQL programming and scripting languages (e.g., Perl, Python, Shell, etc).
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Good communication skills.

Additional Skills:

• Experience working with large data sets (e.g., at least millions of records).
• Familiarity with online advertising.
• Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning methods.
• Able to work without close supervision.