Our highly-skilled development team in Copenhagen that produces LiveIntents identity graph which is leading in the industry of adtech is seeking a versatile VP, Data Science, Machine Learning & Identity with a passion for formalism, heuristics and algorithms as well as an understanding of software engineering. As a VP, Data Science, ML & Identity, you will be a key player in a challenging and dynamic developmental story where decisions about data, real-time auction dynamics and machine learning are core to the success of the business. This is a rich opportunity to learn from others, and there is the flexibility to dive into experiments on your own. We are passionate about new solutions, technologies and algorithms, but pragmatic in our choice of solutins. LiveIntent Copenhagen is responsible for the development and deployment of LiveIntent's data and batch processing infrastructure, analytics and machine learning technology in close collaboration with the company's other teams in New York and Berlin.
About the Job:
As our VP, Data Science, ML & Identity you will define, execute, and lead the data science, machine learning and identity strategies and teams in line with the company vision, goals, and objectives. You will act as an advisor for senior leadership in these areas, with a special focus on how changes in the ecosystem could affect our identity strategies. You will oversee, motivate, and coach a team of leads, data scientists and engineers and build bridges between their team and the other teams in and outside the engineering department. You will participate in the creation of the department standards and processes; continuously improving best practices and you will also be expected to work closely with the other team developers and stakeholders in the company's international product division. You will be part of all stages of development, from initial sparring and exchange of ideas to prototyping, development, testing, deployment, maintenance / improvement and reporting. You will lead our development process as a loosely defined hybrid of agile methods and rapid prototyping under the headline flexibility under responsibility.
Your Profile:
- Previous professional experience with data analysis or software development and leading a team of engineers and data scientists.
- Interest in translating real world issues into mathematical models, mathematical statistics, and algorithms.
- Mathematical education; such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or Physics, ideally a PhD.
- Practical experience with real programming, practical and / or deep theoretical understanding of some of the following: classical statistics (hypothesis tests, confidence intervals), data mining, ETL processing, machine learning / probabilistic graphical models (e.g. Markov logic networks or Bayesian networks), data processing in MapReduce using Spark, programming in Scala and/or Python, data reporting and ad hoc analysis in Athena, Google BigQuery or the "PyLab" suite.
- Deep product knowledge in adtech or martech.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey intricate systems and dialectic to both technical and non-technical partners.
You attack problems analytically and solutions pragmatically. You are full of good ideas, able to see opportunities in other people's ideas, and can find out about ideas in a distanced and constructive way. You love thinking about many issues and connecting them with data. You find identifying new facets of data more important than adjusting meta parameters to algorithms. You are happy to implement and optimize and curious about new tasks.
We're looking for someone who will be excited to understand and involve themselves in the company's problem areas and can communicate in English with management and colleagues at the other LiveIntent offices. This person will be immersed in a dynamic environment where overall priorities and definitions will change over time. In this situation you will guide your team members in closing up deprioritized projects in a way that maximizes our learning with sufficient documentation that they can be picked up at a later point.
The Company:
LiveIntent, one of the world’s largest people-based marketing platforms, connects 2,500 publishing and advertising brands with over 250 MM verified people every month across all types of media. With the anonymized email address at the center of its industry-leading identity graph, LiveIntent provides brands with solutions that help them monetize, acquire, and retain real people, even where cookies don’t work. LiveIntent enriches a brands’ data, making it possible for them to deepen their understanding of their audiences, and more effectively market to people wherever they are present and paying attention. LiveIntent is home to over 250 people worldwide with offices in New York, Chicago, Berlin, and Copenhagen.
LiveIntent Copenhagen started as a Danish startup company in 2013 and was acquired by LiveIntent in November 2015. We develop and operate both an online, real-time service that receives billions of requests from all over the world and from other LiveIntent components, and an offline, batch-oriented analytical data processing pipeline that prepares data for the online service by processing billions of data points.
We Offer:
You can look forward to being a key player in a challenging and dynamic developmental story where you will be part of a team with some of the industry's hottest talents. There will be rich opportunities to learn from others, and you will have the flexibility to dive into experiments on your own. We are passionate about new solutions, technologies and algorithms, but pragmatic in our choice of solutions.
We believe in freedom and flexibility under responsibility so that office hours can be adapted to your life as long as meetings are covered. If you need to work from home one day, it is completely fine, as long as you live up to what is expected. We are an international company so, while this position is located in our Copenhagen office, there is frequent collaboration between teams in Berlin and New York City.
Does that sound exciting? If so, send us an application! We are a small office with a social atmosphere so your personal profile is just as valuable to us as your technical skills. A cover letter will therefore be greatly appreciated.
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