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