Associate Director - Data Science

Director of Data Science 

We are a Fortune 100 Technology & Consumer goods organization dedicated to building a best in class Artificial Intelligence practice. We place research, development, and applications of cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms across multiple technical teams to build innovative technologies at the forefront of our core business.  

As a Director of Data Science you will be responsible for spearheading research, development, and implementation of next-gen Data science models and platforms across multiple technical teams to build innovative technologies, services, and products to solve the company's most complex problems. This role has a particular focus on optimization to improve performance of advertising campiagns, forecasting, bidding, campaign performance, etc.

Join our team if you enjoy:

• Developing highly scalable algorithms based on state-of-the-art Data Science techniques 
• Applying core software engineering fundamentals to develop and deploy practical working solutions that will scale to millions of requests per second with millisecond latency
• Leverage deep knowledge of machine learning and computer science to contribute to the road-map of our best practice and core machine learning capabilities
• Leading a team of data scientists, software engineers, and machine learning scientists to elevate the overall business

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, etc) or equivalent experience (Advanced Degree preferred) 
• Architectural design or system design experience independent of an architect
• Expertise in machine learning and an algorithmic background with deep understanding of at least one of the following areas: supervised and unsupervised learning methods, deep learning, reinforcement learning, graphical modeling, Bayesian inference, or nonlinear/stochastic optimization
• 7+ years of experience building Machine Learning and/or AI products
• 2+ years of experience leading technical research, driving projects end-to-end, and production grade development efforts/teams
• Expert proficiency with at least one data science/analytics programming language (e.g. Python, R)
• Strong software design and implementation skills with a general-purpose programming language

Nice to have:

• Advanced Degree (Masters or Ph.D) in highly quantitative field
• Experience using high performance machine learning libraries and/or deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, RAPIDs, etc)
• Experience building distributed data processing pipelines & data streaming (e.g. Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Apache Kafka)
• Functional programming development skills