Senior Data Scientist, Gettyimages
Search and Personalization
Royalty free stock images
Job no longer available
Royalty free stock images
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To move the world through our images, videos, and illustrations which seek to inform, drive debate, entertain, inspire, and challenge historic biases.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise building and validating search, personalization, recommendation, and/or newsfeed algorithms for customer-facing products
- A minimum of 2 years validated experience
- A strong understanding of the real-world advantages and drawbacks of various algorithms and the ability to measure success
- Ability to handle ambiguity, challenging priorities and objectives. Experience solving highly technical problems
- Hands-on experience with accessing data, Python, machine learning libraries, and deep learning libraries (ex: scikit-learn, NumPy, pandas, scipy, TensorFlow, SQL, hive, spark, etc.)
- Ability to write clean, understandable, well-documented code that follows leading industry standards and practices
- Ability to build easily reproducible models
- Expertise providing mentorship and guidance to team members
- An ability to consider biases that exist in the data and develop solutions to mitigate biases appropriately
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills at all levels, including of sophisticated technical solutions to non-experts
- Open listener, ability to be open to many diverse voices and perspectives, clear, credible, and forward-thinking
- A Ph.D. or MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Sociology, Natural Sciences, or any equivalent field is preferred
- A quiet location with reliable high-speed internet connectivity, environment suitable for professional work (desk, chair, external monitor, etc.)
- Frequent communication with others to exchange information
- Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary
- Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer
- Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment
- Passionate about search engine technologies, ranking and recommendations systems, AI/ML
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead the development of our search, personalization, and recommendations. Using your deep machine learning expertise while considering the broader business context, you will develop industry-leading recommendations in visual search
- This position will have a direct impact on the search and browse paths for millions of customers and drive key conversion metrics
- Build industry-leading algorithms for search, personalization, and recommendations, using our images, metadata, and/or customer interactions to significantly improve our customers’ image/video search and discovery experiences
- Lead, guide and mentoring data scientists and data analysts in implementing our technical strategy and roadmap
- Develop our technical ranking roadmap alongside product, team members, and leadership. Distilling customer requirements into problem definitions and identifying measures of success
- Develop and implement online and offline testing and validation methodologies
- Partner with data engineers, machine learning engineers, and search engineers to implement and deploy new ranking algorithms in the production process
Our take
Getty Images is the most trusted and esteemed source of visual content in the world, with hundreds of millions assets available through its brands. The company serves creative, business and media customers, regardless of size, in almost 200 countries.
Operating the most comprehensive digital archive in the world, the company works with contributors and content partners to cover more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events each year. Part of its success is its maintenance of long-standing partnerships with premium brands including the BBC, Sony Pictures, Dove, and NASCAR.
Already an extremely established presence, Getty Images is set to remain a market leader as it furthers the reach of its subscription-based model across the globe. It continues to bolster its archives, for example with the acquisition of Motorsport Images, and is also set to play a key role in the development of the AI imagery sector.
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare Coverage and benefits
- Work‑Life Balance and Remote Flexibility (dependent on region)
- Time‑Off for rest and recovery
- Well-being programs and resources
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement benefits
- Life insurance
- Financual education and planning
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan, subject to eligibility
- Professional and leadership development, mentoring, and learning programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- Team, local, and global morale‑building events and celebrations
- Open forums rooted in transparency
- Donation matching and volunteer days
Company HQ
Seattle Chinatown-International District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Craig Peters
(CEO)Former SVP (Business Development, Content & Product) and VP (Footage, Music, & Multimedia) at Getty Images. Former Board Member at both Daylife and Life.com. Previous SVP at MediaVast, VP (Business Development) at Fox Interactive Media, and Director (New Media & Strategic Development) at PGA Tour.
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