Senior Data Scientist, Staff Data Scientist

Summary

Join StackAdapt, a leading self-serve advertising platform, as a Senior Data Scientist and contribute to their innovative data science efforts. You will be responsible for developing and implementing novel machine learning algorithms to optimize advertising performance, collaborating with Data Engineers, and prototyping and testing algorithms using historical data. StackAdapt offers a remote-first work environment, competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive culture.

Requirements

• Have a Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or a related field, with dual degrees a plus
• Have the ability to take an ambiguously defined task, and break it down into actionable steps
• Have a comprehensive understanding of statistics, optimization and machine learning
• Are proficient in coding, data structures, and algorithms
• Enjoy working in a friendly, collaborative environment with others

Responsibilities

• Innovate ML algorithms to maximize ROI and advertising performance. This ranges from creating entirely new algorithms, to improvements on state-of-the art methods, to development using a deep understanding of classic methods
• Write production code, sometimes collaborating with Data Engineers, to implement the novel ML algorithms
• Prototype potential algorithms and pipelines, test them using historical data, and iterate to modify based on insights

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Private Medical Insurance cover
• Auto-enrolment into the company pension scheme
• Work from home reimbursements
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc)
• An awesome parental leave policy
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Our social and team events (virtually!)
• Take part in our walk and wander policy and work anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year