Data Scientist – Media Consultancy – New York or Cambridge – Python/SQL – Competitive+bonus/share options & great benefits

The Opportunity

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the media spend you’re responsible for, including ideation on quantitative approaches for driving value, monitoring metrics, and troubleshooting issues
• Design and execute every technical aspect of an engagement, including machine learning, analytics, and visualization 
• Develop new techniques (e.g., ML models, optimization algorithms, and automation) to optimize KPIs and improve our client IP
• Discuss and defend your analyses and ensure that it directly meets the client’s needs. 
• Build presentations and present work to clients with the ability to articulate results
• Productionalize workflows and contributing code to our our client repos (I don’t know what this means)
• Operate existing software infrastructure to traffic, evaluate performance, and analyze media

 Who You Are and What You Have

• A Masters or PhD from a well-regarded college or university. STEM degrees are preferred 
• 5+ years of hands-on experience doing quantitative analysis, predictive modeling, optimization and/or statistics
• Some professional experience in marketing, advertising or media is a plus

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

• Experience utilizing Python (or similar language) and SQL
• Experience using Machine Learning
• Understanding of statistics/science/evidence/experimentation
• Ability to build and maintain external relationships (clients, vendors, etc.)
• Superb written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Ability to articulate clearly and communicate a “data story”
• A desire to work on advertising challenges that require flexibility in approach -- everything from on-the-fly analytics to statistics, big data, machine learning, and mathematical algorithms 
• An ability to translate business challenges into quantitative problems, and solve them by whatever means necessary, which may not always be strict machine learning
• An ability to think strategically, analytically, and proactively about diverse business problems
• A commitment to managing the quality & accuracy of analytics, ensuring high standards with your and others’ work
• Maybe a desire to mentor and teach others
• Ability to think strategically, analytically, and proactively about diverse business problems
• Abundant intellectual curiosity and integrity

Benefits On Offer

• Unlimited paid time off
• Equity plan with profit sharing
• Annual bonuses
• Vacation and birthday cash bonuses
• Generous medical plan
• Paid parental leave
• Company-paid cell phone service
• Fully stocked kitchen
• Weekly company lunches

How do You Apply?