Data Scientist, Moloco
Growth Analytics
$148-185k
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
Open for applications
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$148-185k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Statistics: must have knowledge and experience in experimental design, hypothesis testing, and various statistical analysis such as regression or time-series analysis
- Programming: experience in Python and SQL is required
- Comfortable balancing multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritizing work based on business needs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to distill complex concepts and information into simple recommendations, presenting to stakeholders at various levels of seniority and technical expertise
- Experienced building partnerships with advertisers and business teams to grow an Ads business using data and analytics
- Proven ability to own projects end-to-end and operate in ambiguous problem spaces, able to develop creative solutions to complex problems
- Demonstrated leadership and self-direction
- Experience in external client facing role
- Experience in ad-tech, or advertising environment
What the job involves
- Growth Data Science is a global team of data scientists who work with internal and external stakeholders to improve the effectiveness of Moloco Ads and help advertisers achieve their business goals
- As a Senior Data Scientist you will act as a leader within the team, working across a portfolio of top strategic advertisers and taking ownership of high impact product initiatives. This is a critical and highly cross-functional role with diverse responsibilities
- Advertiser engagement; engaging with advertisers to understand their business objectives, measurement strategies and identifying opportunities for Moloco to drive business value
- Measurement consultation; consulting with advertisers on measurement methodologies, helping them to understand nuances between different measurement solutions (MMP attribution, incrementality, MMM) and supporting the activation of Moloco incrementality solutions
- Insights generation; data collection, analysis and effective communication of learnings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholder up to C-Level
- Campaign optimization: partnering with internal and external teams on analysis and testing to identify opportunities to improve Moloco campaign effectiveness
- Product development; collaborating with key stakeholders across Moloco product and engineering teams to help improve our products and services based on market insights and advertiser feedback
- Product activation; collaborating with Moloco business teams to develop activation strategies to unlock product performance and drive adoption across advertiser groups
Our take
Moloco offers a cutting-edge platform that allows app developers and eCommerce marketplaces to fuel their growth through machine learning-driven advertising. Its suite of tools enables users to fine-tune campaigns, enhance user engagement, and broaden outreach, ultimately boosting profitability.
Positioned as the premier demand-side platform for ad performance across the open internet, Moloco has experienced substantial growth, securing significant funding and achieving Unicorn status in mid-2021. At the core of its Cloud DSP and Retail Media Platform lies a powerful ML engine leveraging deep neural networks (DNNs), facilitating automated, profitable, and scalable growth strategies for marketers.
Continuously evolving its flagship DSP with advanced features, Moloco consistently sets new benchmarks in ad spend. With expansion into retail media and MLaaS offerings, Moloco aims to democratize access to advanced machine learning capabilities for businesses of all sizes.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $191.6m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness: Competitive health (100% coverage for you), dental, vision and life insurance for you and your family. In addition, enjoy membership to Calm, Headspace, Spring Health, as well as fitness and health reimbursements
- Professional development: $2,500 Learning and Development stipend annually to grow yourself professionally
- Food and snacks: Enjoy lunch on us. We bring lunch in for employees everyday, In addition, our kitchens are filled with healthy snacks and beverages for you to enjoy
- Paid parental leave: Our parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers have you covered when you welcome a new child into your family
- Unlimited vacation: We encourage team members to take time off to relax and recharge with our flexible paid time off policy. We also offer leave time for various reasons
- Financial benefits: We provide equity and generous retirement benefits that help you prepare for your future. In addition, home office setup and phone, internet and transportation reimbursements
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ikkjin Ahn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at O1 and Humanex, before spending 2 years at YouTube and 3 at Google.
David Sehyuk Park
(Co-Founder & CIO)Prior to co-founding Moloco in 2013, David spent nearly 7 years at Oracle Corporation as a Software Engineer.
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