Director of Data Science, Snap
$294-441k
+ Equity
4+ days a week in office
Social media & camera company
Be an early applicant
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$294-441k
+ Equity
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Consultative nature, with a proven track record of using data to achieve actionable results
- Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining, growing, and scaling diverse, geographically dispersed, high-performing DS and DE teams
- Proven experience influencing strategy and driving change with senior executives across org boundaries through clear and compelling communication of data-driven insights and analyses
- Experience in ML modeling, forecasting, data management, data quality and data/analytical governance tools and frameworks
- 10+ years of work experience managing Data Science teams, working collaboratively with Product and Business teams, and guiding data-influenced product and business planning, prioritization, strategy, and execution
- Advanced degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline, Ph.D. preferred
What the job involves
- The Director will be the go-to analytic partner for senior executives across sales, engineering and product and will lead the data science team responsible for DS support of revenue growth
- The team is responsible for developing advanced data science methods to aid in ad performance understanding and investigations, return on investment measurement, and a deeper understanding of audience exposure, conversion and related activities impact
- This person will focus on driving business outcomes through strategic and operational improvements using data and delivering insights to advance our understanding of customer engagement and ad performance across our products
- They will create and lead analysis on multivariate tests and drive a wide variety of cross-functional, high impact data projects and initiatives
- He/she will lead an experienced team of data scientists aimed at increasing business results through the combination of statistical rigor, technical capabilities, strategic data analysis, and fast paced execution
- Answer complex business questions by using appropriate statistical techniques
- Build and manage machine learning models aimed at providing better signals for ranking, modeling short and long term audience forecasts across varying scenarios as well as predicting user behavior
- Partner across the organization. Develop and maintain relationships with senior executives in the business lines and Engineering, ensuring their priorities are addressed
- Maximize analytics value by improving data management, data quality and governance
- Build a high-performance team of data scientists and analysts
- Deliver insightful analysis and recommendations that can be acted upon by the organization at all levels
- Clearly articulate the approach and the findings of interpretable analytical models and drive the continuous refinement of what should be tracking and reporting
- Build out in-depth knowledge of the business success drivers (including determining the KPIs that will help meet our forecasts) and deliver value added solutions that have a measurable impact on the business
- Be hands-on and work with massive datasets with superior analytics skills
- Drive pragmatic approaches to solving key complex business problems through data analysis, predictive modeling and machine learning techniques
- Manage multiple teams on different projects, ensuring timeliness and successful completion
- Aid in integrating data science learnings/models with the technology tools to make insights actionable and results real-time
Our take
Snap is the social media giant that owns Snapchat, a social media mobile app released in 2011. Created to serve as a more emotive communication form than texting, the app has gained mass popularity, reaching upwards of 400 million daily users worldwide.
After rejecting a billion dollar acquisition from Meta (then Facebook) in 2013, Snap has found itself in competition with the social media giant, particularly with Instagram. Despite this, the company has marked a place for itself in the ever competitive social media space through developing features like a Discover tab, augmented reality lenses, in-app games, ads and monetisation options, as well as launching its paid service, Snapchat+.
Snap has so far not earned an annual profit since going public in 2017, but as Snapchat's user base has continually increased it has nearly closed the gap. Like other tech companies it suffered in late 2022 due to a surprise drop in advertising revenue, but has been rebuilding to its former trajectory since then. Given Snapchat's lasting popularity amongst young people, further success appears likely.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Paid maternity, paternity and family caregiver leave
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, caregiver assistance and digital maternity care support
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HSA and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including LASIK benefits
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes, hikes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Generous time off and leave programmes
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Emotional and mental health support programmes and apps
- Social gatherings, team outings and volunteering programmes
- Speaker series, classes and subscriptions to educational programmes
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega Backdoor option!)
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programmes
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!
- Have a teammate going through a tough time? Lend them a hand through our internal Snap-a-wish programme! We'll work hard to make sure they get the support they need.
Company values
- We Are Kind - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Smart - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Creative - We gracefully manage ambiguity, cultivate innovation and demonstrate an insatiable desire to learn
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Articles
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(CEO)Graduated from Standford with a BS in Product Design.
Bobby Murphy
(CTO)Studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford.
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