Lead Data Scientist, Zeta Global
Data Cloud Acceleration
£75-85k
Cloud-based marketing technology
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based marketing technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£75-85k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower enterprises to thrive in a digital ecosystem with intelligence, individuality and integrity.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll thrive here if you…
- Think “impact > model elegance.” You pick the simplest approach that moves the KPI
- Prototype loudly. You’d rather show a working demo than a 40page deck
- Stay humble. If a spreadsheet baseline wins, you celebrate—and then raise the bar
- Translate effortlessly. You can chat GPU kernels at noon and revenue funnels at 12:05
- Love ambiguity. Blank whiteboards signal possibility, not paralysis
Desirable
- End to end ML product ownership—from prototype notebook to cloud native service
- Fluency in Python with libraries such as scikitlearn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, LightGBM
- Experience choosing and finetuning foundation/LLM or diffusion models when they’re the quickest path to value
- Comfort with feature stores, vector databases, and MLOps stacks (Airflow/Prefect, MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex, or equivalents)
- Both batch and low latency serving patterns (REST, gRPC, or streaming)
- SQL that hunts for signal in messy data and A/B results
- Solid grounding in statistics and experimental design, plus the storytelling chops to explain lift to non-data partners
- Version control, CI/CD, and a bias toward shipping thin vertical slices over monoliths
What the job involves
- We’re a small band of business savvy technologists who treat machine learning as a means, not an end. Our charter: find revenue shaping opportunities, ship the first working model or service in days or weeks, watch how the market reacts, then double down—or pivot—fast. Ego takes a back seat to curiosity, and “good enough for now” often beats “perfect but late.”
- Frame & focus. Translate fuzzy growth ideas into moldeable problems, pick the metrics that matter, and design bite-sized experiments to learn quickly
- Build fast, in or out of the box. Finetune a foundation model when it’s the 80percent solution; spin up a from scratch architecture only when the use case truly needs it
- Own the full lifecycle. Prototype in notebooks, productionize via Python APIs or lightweight microservices, and wire up offline scoring, real-time inference, and monitoring
- Make it self-serve. Wrap models in simple endpoints, SDKs, or SQL functions so analysts and engineers can self select the magic without a helpdesk ticket
- Instrument & iterate. Track performance drift, cost, and business lift; retrain or retire ruthlessly based on evidence
- Teach the village. Run demos, share code snippets, and mentor teammates on pragmatic ML patterns that survive first contact with customers
- Why join Zeta’s Data Cloud Acceleration team
- Velocity. Your models meet customers in weeks, not quarters
- Tool freedom. Choose the stack that fits the problem—no six month procurement saga
- Breadth. Projects jump from ad-tech optimization to identity resolution to GenAIpowered personalization
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zeta Global is a cloud-based marketing technology company that specializes in marketing platforms and customer relationship management software. Its Zeta Marketing Platform uses proprietary data, predictive AI, and omnichannel technology to personalize interactions with customers at every point of contact.
Co-founded by David Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley, Zeta works with more than one thousand customers including high-profile clients such as BMW, Samsung, CNN, and Volvo. While the company may not have the balance sheets of direct competitors such as Salesforce, Oracle, or Adobe, Zeta remains profitable having raised over $300M in funding.
Zeta's 2021 bid for IPO status was met with a lower-than-expected stock valuation, but it remains confident that its shift to the public sphere will help diversify its enterprise customers and further embed itself in the data industry. In 2022, it achieved carbon neutrality and launched a thought leadership campaign called Zeta NEXT in 2024, indicating its steps towards being a market leader.
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Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2017
$115m
SERIES F
Jul 2015
$125m
LATE VC
Total funding: $310m
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
David A Steinberg
(CEO)Prior to founding Zeta and CAIVIS, they founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004
John Sculley
(Vice Chairman of the Board & Investor)Former CEO of Apple Computer. They joined Apple in 1983 when the Company had $600 million in revenues; by the time they left, Apple's revenues exceeded $8 billion.
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