Our client is looking for someone to join their team in a full time capacity as the Director of Data Science. The position is in New York City and the correct candidate will have the following skill set.

• Experience in a leadership/manager role.
• End to end data science project/product management & preferably people management with all key soft skills
• Scoping Media related projects leveraging following skillsStatistics/Econometrics
  • AB Testing/Experiments/Surveys
  • ML/AI
• Providing relevant direction to our Media partners & potentially to vendors hired by the Media team
• Well thought out deliverables in timely manner
• Reviewing team member deliverables/code/presentations as needed
• Ability to get into the weeds as needed to support team, but this would not be a typical expectation
• PhD or Masters in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or similar degree (PhD preferred but not required)
• 8+ years of experience in end-to-end statistical analysis, data science, and machine learning lifecycles at an enterprise level
• Experience in the TV/Digital media space a plus
• Strong understanding of methods in statistical analysis (e.g., data distributions, regression analysis, experimental design, hypothesis testing, etc.)
• Expertise in exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, data wrangling, feature reduction, and feature engineering
• Extensive experience with different Data Science methods such as clustering, classification, regression, time series, & optimization
• Advanced programming skills in modern languages including Python, R, C#, Java, Scala and Go (Python required)
• Experience with a range of machine learning related frameworks and libraries, such as Python scikit-learn, Pandas, StatsModels, Pandas, Keras, TensorFlow