Data Science Director, Teads
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2+ days a week in office
Video advertising platform
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Video advertising platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Teads is dedicated to making ad experiences better for brands, publishers, and consumers.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a technical leader managing Scientists, Engineers, and other technical managers
- A background that combines academic research and the application of Science to real-world at-scale business problems, including Statistics, Neural Networks (Deep Learning) and GenAI
- Prior experience in performance based advertising or in connected TV is a big plus
- Innovative thinking, collaboration skills, and comfortable solving ambiguous problems
- Ability to manage technical teams, providing regular feedback, mentorship or coaching. Experiencing nurturing and growing top talent
- Team-oriented management style with the ability to recruit and develop technical talent and to inspire and motivate multiple engineering teams to work together as a cohesive and highly productive unit
- Sound experience with designing, developing and extending large and complex systems
- Pride in initiative, leadership and collaboration
- You embrace change and are enthusiast to learn in order to bring projects to proper completion
- Excellent organization, prioritization, and communication skills in English for multiple audiences (Engineering, Product, Stakeholders, ...)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Science Director to lead the Data Science teams at Teads in order to bring the company to the next level and join a team of passionate engineers who build premium solutions at scale
- This role at Teads is a manager of managers plus ICs, reporting to a VP. They will be the thought-leader for Science innovation at Teads, from AI models which directly impact production to investing in long-term research at the forefront of AI
- They are responsible for growing their team culture, ensuring sound Science/Engineering decisions, working closely with Product and other engineering teams, and above all building a culture of excellence
- Drive the long-term AI vision for Teads, including new approaches and models to Machine Learning and leveraging GenAI
- Build, manage, mentor and support teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment. We operate in a lean and experienced organization of 15+ contributors with plans to grow and structure the teams
- Drive prioritization and be accountable for the execution of the Data Science strategy to improve KPIs and launch net-new offerings
- Collaborate with a variety of teams to develop data science solutions from design to production
- Stay abreast of academic and industry research, to help Teads remain at the forefront for applied science
- Ensure company business objectives are well understood and implemented
- Set up your teams for growth in a self-sustainable manner through effective processes
- Define and communicate the strategy and vision to the teams and the whole company
- Regularly interacts with senior management in and outside innovation on matters concerning several functional areas, divisions, and/or customers
- Influences technical decision making to maintain a healthy and coherent tech stack
- Operates at both a tactical and a strategic level
- Generates solutions and innovative ideas to complex people problems
- Executes leadership with little direction from VP
- The Data Science Teams are responsible for building solutions to help the business and the engineering teams:
- Build tools to empower data scientists (eg; provide a framework to run offline and online tests to facilitate data driven decisions)
- Use Machine Learning to predict the outcome of displaying an ad to optimize our bidding strategy (eg. CTR prediction), or to control the infrastructure cost
- Use unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms to create user clusters based on their browsing history
- Create predictive audiences to target users and extend our reach
- Provide algorithms to optimize in real-time creative rendering adapted to the context
- Maintain and improve more than 50 prediction models, each one learning millions of weights
- Investigate the latest Machine Learning technologies to make sure we always use the best-in-class algorithms
Our take
Teads operates a cloud-based end-to-end technology platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. The modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies.
The company partners with marketers and agencies, and has a mass reach for advertisers across some of the most well-known publishers in the world, such as Vice, CNN and BBC. After newly hiring talent into some senior roles, the company has enabled itself to switch focus towards providing more resources and service across some of the fastest-growing verticals such as automotive, retail, technology, telecoms, FMCG, travel, and luxury.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2015
$12.7m
SERIES B
Oct 2013
$5.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48.5m
Company benefits
- Teads Summit - Every two years, all global team members come together to reflect on the previous year and plan for the upcoming.
- Training Program - Our training platform is available for everyone who wants to learn more about our products and offering. Mentorship and Buddy programs are in place in main regions.
- Wellness - A balanced approach to work and health is crucial in building a successful team, so we offer Teadsters gym memberships and healthy snacks at the office to support all aspects of working life.
- Work Hard, Play Hard - We’re not only friends in the office, Teads encourages all members to go to team activities outside of the office.
- Flexible Hours
Company values
- We Find A Better & Faster Way
- We Operate With Openness
- We Aim To Do The Right Thing
- We Play To Win
Company HQ
Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Pierre Chappaz
(Chairman)Experience as Director of Marketing for IBM. Founder of Kelkoo, Wikio and Ebuzzing.
Bertrand Quesada
(CEO)Previously Executive Director of Golog, and CEO of Ebuzzing.
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