Technical Lead Manager - Data Science Moloco Commerce Media

About Moloco: 

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad targeting using data, that same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms. 

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while enabling companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. We were recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. That same year, we also received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, given to companies implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024-certified Great Place to Work! 

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission, to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

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. MCM has established a strong product market with several leading marketplaces working with us to show relevant ads. 

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 science team supports MCM's growth by supporting the launch of new features through modeling, algorithmic and analytical excellence. As a Technical Lead Manager in MCM, you will have the opportunity to lead key initiatives on improving 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. 

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:

• The Moloco Commerce Media (MCM) Data Science team is a core pillar that drives business outcomes and brings clarity via insightful data analysis. As a Technical Lead Manager Data Scientist, you will partner with various product management, engineering and business leaders throughout the organization to drive high quality quality analysis and insights to drive our product and business vision. This is a hands-on role with the opportunity to mentor and lead data scientists. 

The Opportunity: 

• Building the right metrics to measure the health of MCM business: defining input metrics to each component of MCM business and continuously measuring and improving the set of metrics to capture in which direction the business is moving. Understanding cause-and-effect relationships across drivers; guiding ramp decisions through rigorous A/B testing. Communicating the metric movements to MCM leadership, as well as customer executive teams.
• Conducting deep-dive analysis or experimentation to influence R&D decisions and strategies: analyzing large datasets, extract valuable signals out of noise, developing and conducting experiments and identifying actionable insights that enable us to improve Moloco’s complex ML and bidding system to drive performance for customers. 
• Evaluating ads system health: understanding changes and drivers of our complex systems, and diagnosing issues through a set of input/output metrics of each component.
• Design and deploy advanced optimization approaches to improve our ad-delivery: identifying the best ranking, retrieval and bidding strategies that strike the right balance between ROI and revenue trade-offs. 
• Leveraging the latest advances in deep learning to evaluate and improve our search quality. Defining the right metrics around relevance and articulating the tradeoff between relevance and ad spending.

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me? 

• Experience in a tech lead role, responsible for elevating the quality of work across a data science organization.
• Strong people skills: nurturing growth mindset in the team, mentoring/coaching team members for their growth, understanding common career growth challenges, being empathetic but decisive when needed, comfortable in delegating and making sure the delegated work is done as expected.
• Strong communication with a technical background – this is a highly collaborative role, central to many functions here at Moloco. Experience in communicating data insights to the executive teams and external customers.
• 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. 
• Proven ability to own org-wide initiatives end-to-end, even when you have to get creative: you do more than delegating tasks and always pay attention to detail to translate analysis results into business recommendations. 
• 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 with product, business, and engineering, and work effectively with cross-functional partners in a global company.
• 10+ years of work experience (industry or postgraduate) in data science related fields.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s and/or PhD in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Operations Research, Bioinformatics, Economics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering).

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:  

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values: 

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

Additional Resources: 

• Moloco Company Blog 
• Moloco Leadership
• Moloco Newsroom 

Equal Opportunity: 

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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