Engaging with diverse stakeholders to communicate data insights and recommendations
The Senior Data Scientist is an internal expert in methodology and leads audience activation modeling efforts, translating complex customer data into actionable marketing strategies and personalized customer experiences through machine learning modeling. This individual possesses deep technical expertise in statistics and machine learning, with a strong focus on their application in marketing targeting.
.Work on a cross-functional team to propose and implement high-impact, data-driven solutions to address business challenges across a variety of business units
Apply advanced data-driven modeling techniques to inform decision making and solve complex business problems
Create breakthrough solutions, performing exploratory and targeted data analyses
Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
Monitor and sustain model effectiveness
Present complex information using data visualization techniques
Work with diverse technical teams and provide data and analytical oversight to ensure project deliverables fulfill business needs and timing
Identify long-term technical innovations while continuously improving execution efficiency
Possessing contextual business knowledge and functional domain expertise in the advertising and media space, showing a proven ability of using data, analytics, and insights to add revenue and business-impacting value in this via audience selection and behavioral engagement
Exhibiting a perspective of constrained curiosity, asking why, and suggesting experimentation to drive incremental impact
Exhibiting the ability to tell a succinct, data-driven story in any forum and tailor delivery to a wide range of stakeholder levels, from analyst to senior executive
Bachelors Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Marketing Science, or another quantitative field
Deep knowledge of Machine Learning and Statistics. Familiarity with Deep Learning algorithms is a plus
Proficient in writing scalable code using Python and SQL/Spark, with experience working with Spark/ML, scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, StatsModels, PyMC, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and related packages
Experience with cloud compute platforms such as Azure with Databricks experience being especially valuable
5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related role, developing, deploying, and monitoring performance of large analytic data sets and machine learning based models
Desired expertise in marketing analytics and advanced methods such as: customer lifetime value, consumer choice (multinomial logit), time-series forecasting, hierarchical bayes, panel-data methods (fixed/random effects), censored/truncated regressions, selection models, non-random treatment effects, hazard /survival models, structural equation modeling, item response theory, latent class regression, media mix modeling (MMM), multi-touch attribution (MTA)
Prior experience with paid, earned, and owned media