Data Scientist - Moloco Commerce Media
Company: Moloco, Inc.
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: October 24, 2024
Job Description:
The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:
- Moloco Commerce Media (MCM) enables marketplaces to leverage
the recent advances in AI for delivering tailored ads to relevant
users, driven by first-party data.
- We've established our MCM's product market fit with strong
interest in our product. MCM is an important product that is key to
Moloco's continued success and is in a high growth phase. The Data
Science/Applied Science team supports MCM's growth by supporting
the launch of new features through modeling, algorithmic and
analytical excellence. Assenior data scientist in MCM, you will
have the opportunity to work on and improve various components of
our ad-tech stack including ranking, retrieval, auction/bidding and
budget pacing. We highly value prior experience in working in
ad-tech.
What You'll Do:
- Conduct deep-dive analysis to influence R&D decisions and
strategies: analyze a large dataset with queries and scripts,
extract valuable signals out of noise, and produce actionable
insights into how we could optimize Moloco's complex bidding
system.
- Build the right metrics for product areas and drive business
collaboration with domain data expertise: improve performance
monitoring of a large and complex ads ecosystem by establishing the
right metric framework, and understanding cause-and-effect
relationships across drivers; guiding ramp decisions through
rigorous A/B testing.
- Improve ML models through better data quality and insights:
validate and quantify the efficiency and performance gain from
hypotheses with advanced statistical methods.
Basic Qualifications:
- Distinctive problem-solving skills, ability to articulate
product questions, pulling data from large datasets and using
statistics to arrive at a recommendation; ability to manage
multiple projects at the same time.
- Have an interest in data, metrics, analysis, and trends from
the mindset of helping a customer-centric business. Know when to
apply statistical measurement vs 80-20 analysis for business
growth
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability
to present information and analysis results effectively.
- Statistics: strong knowledge and experience in experimental
design, hypothesis testing, and various statistical analysis
techniques such as regression or linear models.
- Programming: experience with Python, R or other scripting
language, and database language (e.g. SQL) or data manipulation
(e.g. Pandas, Dplyr).
- Ability to build positive relationships within the DS team and
with our stakeholders, and work effectively with cross-functional
partners in a global company.
- 6+ years of work experience (industry or postgraduate) in data
science related fields or an advanced degree such as Master's or
PhD in a quantitative discipline with 2+ years of experience.
Preferred:
- Master's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics,
Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Sciences)
- Demonstrated leadership and self-direction
- Willingness to both teach others and learn new
techniques
- Ability to seek out new business questions and effectively
scope projects to support client growth, reengagement and overall
campaign strategy and performance
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