Senior Data Scientist
Rise Interactive (http://www.riseinteractive.com), a rapidly growing full service interactive advertising agency, is looking to hire a Senior Data Scientist, into the Innovation team. We are seeking a detail-oriented, highly motivated individual contributor that is excited about joining a new Innovation department, on a talented, close-knit team and contributing professionally to an entrepreneurial company with an expanding Fortune 500 client base.
SUMMARY AND SCOPEWe’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help us build out our personalized marketing and analytics platforms. Our platform processes billions of records today – and we’re just getting started. Our goal is to find data scientist with hands-on coding skills, not only just research and analytical skills. This is an individual contributor role that is expected to contribute to production solutions in addition to leading and teaching others on the team, and communicating results to business stakeholders. This position will be involved in the entire data science solution pipeline from end-to-end.
Responsibilities:We operate a cross-functional team that specializes when needed but aims to have everyone able to contribute. Duties of the Data Scientist include:
- Collaborate with stakeholders, executives and subject matter experts
- Develop innovative experiment designs, modeling methodologies, real-time recommendation, and machine learning approaches to measure our advertising targeting for optimization and forecasting
- Identify, generate, and select modeling features from various structured and semi-structured data sets
- Train and build machine learning models to meet business goals
- Innovate new machine learning techniques to address business needs
- Embrace and assist in evolving our Agile (Scrum) team processes and data science role responsibilities
- Own the discover, delivery, evolution, and maintenance of models and data science solutions
- Design A/B and multivariate tests
- Explain the what and why of particular steps in your analysis or machine learning solution to others
- Naturally inquisitive and possess strong conceptual skills
Experience managing end-to-end machine learning pipeline from data exploration, feature engineering, model building, performance evaluation, and online testing with TB to PB sized data sets
- Strong understanding of statistics, predictive modeling, multivariate analysis, machine learning and information retrieval
- Smart, high aptitude to learn new things and sense of urgency to get things done
- 6+ years of experience working with large amounts of real data
- Able to program in languages such as Python, SQL, SparkML, R, SAS
- Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, D3
- Experience writing advanced queries for large, semi-structured datasets with tools like Hadoop, Hive, Spark, MapReduce, and NoSQL technologies
- Excellent communication is essential in this role -- experience communicating with diverse teams including data scientists, engineers, product managers, and executive management
- Experience working in cloud-only infrastructure, especially Microsoft Azure
- A strong passion for empirical research and answering hard questions
- Team player – demonstrated experience on a few teams that have shipped a product
- Professional developer – experienced with source control (Git) and bug tracking
- Practical-minded – chooses stability/reliability/maintainability over shiny new objects
- Passionate about technology – ideally you build things outside of work for fun
- Must be totally comfortable at the command line