Senior Staff Data Scientist, InMobi
DSP
$210.8-301.1k
Plus equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
2+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Data-driven mobile marketing platform
Job no longer available
Data-driven mobile marketing platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$210.8-301.1k
Plus equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
2+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To drive real connections between brands and consumers through its data-driven mobile advertisement platform.
Role
Who you are
- At a Staff level and above, our scientists are expected to come in with deep expertise and experience in Ad Tech, AI/ML, and Data Science, particularly at scale. Familiarity with big data processing and cloud computing will be critical to succeed in this environment
- In addition to possessing a mathematical aptitude, they need to be competent with data science languages and tools, such as Python or Apache Spark which will enable them to design scalable solutions for our advertising products, implement proof-of-concept, and evaluate them offline and online. They will also need to work with other engineers to take these solutions to live production and drive real business value
- Most importantly, we look for a passion to investigate and learn about the world from data, to ask interesting and provocative questions, and be driven to put real models into production that drive real business value
- We are open to diverse academic backgrounds, providing an intent to think and problem-solve like a data scientist. Our team includes engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, economists and social scientists – a rock-star data scientist can come from any academic field
- Master’s in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research or Economics, Analytics, Data Science. Or Bachelor's with additional experience. PhD a plus
- 10+ years of ad tech related industry experience working in Data Science teams. You would have applied algorithms and techniques such as NLP, Reinforcement Learning, Time Series, etc. from Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Statistics or other domains in solving real world problems and understand the practical issues of using these algorithms especially on large datasets
- Comfortable with software programming and statistical platforms such as R, Python etc
- Comfortable with the big data ecosystem and Apache Spark. Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud/Vertex AI will be a bonus
- Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with challenges of the identity-less world, particularly for iOS and Android
- Excellent technical and business communication skills and should know how to present technical ideas in a simple manner to business counterparts
- Possess a high degree of curiosity and ability to rapidly learn new subjects and
What the job involves
- We have built an infrastructure that enables model deployment at scale and speed
- As data scientists, we sit alongside engineering colleagues who enable our models to deploy
- Combine this with our growing variable set of hundreds of potential features (and growing!), and this is a highly fertile environment for building, experimenting, refining and achieving real impact from your models
- If models fire, the bottom-line impact to our teams is immediate – you see the value of your work incredibly fast
- You will be responsible for leading one or more data science efforts for one of the biggest performance DSPs in the world. This involves project ideation and conceptualization, solution design, measurement and solution iteration, coaching, deployment and post deployment management
- This will also include designing, development, testing of product experiments. You will need to guide junior members of the team in practical experiments, product design, model development and model evaluation. It is vital to be agile and iterate fast across experiment to deliver go-to-market ready products
- You are expected to be a hands-on part of the role where you will also actively analyse data, design and develop models, and problem-solve solutions with the rest of the team
- Additionally, stakeholder management is needed. It will involve being the interface with internal stakeholders such as our Product, Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, and Business teams
- Our team strives for thought leadership in the sector. We encourage and support all team members to write blogs, commentary and case studies published on the InMobi blog. We also support team members across our MLAI team to speak at industry conferences and represent InMobi’s work
- You will learn how to design and build models for specific business problems. Even before that, you will be responsible for identifying the problem areas where AI can be applied to best business impact. You will learn to start a model design by anchoring in the business context and end user needs. You will learn how to connect model impact with real and measurable business impact
- You will work in a multi-functional team environment. You will collaborate and benefit from the skills of a diverse group of individuals from teams such as engineering, product, business, campaign management and creative development
- You will have the opportunity to experiment with multiple algorithms. Enduring learning comes from building, launching and reviewing performance of a particular algorithm; from asking why something worked or why it did not work; from asking how to tailor techniques to fit the problem at hand. We have an environment that makes this possible at speed
- Importantly, you will learn to become creative in designing models to be successful. Model design is not one-size-fits-all. Our models need to fit our particular problems and be modified to perform. Tougher problems require layers of models, and feedback mechanisms in a dynamic environment such as ours
- We are a company that innovates and demonstrates our thought leadership to the world, whether in products, research papers or conferences – there are many opportunities for you to shine
Our take
Mobile advertising is an incredibly important element of marketing campaigns for modern businesses, but success is limited to the quality of engagements that campaigns have with audiences. Engagement can be optimised by targeting ads to relevant audiences through cookies and other data sets, but without the right analytic tools to lead to actionable insights, this data remains useless.
InMobi provides a data-driven mobile marketing platform, offering a toolkit called InMobi Pulse that provides insights into mobile marketing based on consumer feedback, product testing, and other proprietary data. The company also provides InMobi Exchange, a platform for reaching mobile-first audiences and an enterprise-grade platform for purchasing DSP services.
Whilst it is undeniable that InMobi faces competition from other mobile-focused marketing platforms, the company stands out with the sheer range of tools it offers and its focus on markets such as India and Southeast Asia, which are difficult for North American and European firms to enter. InMobi has plans to further expand globally, however, and is bringing its Glance lock screen advertising product to the US and Latin America in the near future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$3.7m
LATE VC
Dec 2014
$5m
SERIES C
Total funding: $224.3m
Company HQ
Central Water Catchment, Singapore
Leadership
Abhay Singhal
(Co-Founder & CEO (InMobi Advertising))Since co-founding InMobi in 2006, they have held a number of roles at the company, including Head of Global Ad Sales, MD, CRO, and now CEO. Previously co-founded TeN where they served as the Head of Sales for over 4 years.
Piyush Shah
(Co-Founder & COO (Glance))Experience as co-founder and Head of Business Development for LearningSpiral.com Pvt Ltd. Previously also a Product Manager of Consumer Payments and Assistant Vice President of Private Banking for Deutsche Bank.
Naveen Tewari
(Co-Founder & CEO (InMobi & Glance))Founder and CEO of Glance. Previously spent 3 years as an Associate at McKinsey & Company.
Mohit Saxena
(Co-Founder & CTO (InMobi))Senior Columnist for The Indian Economist since 2015. Previously founded Rizort.
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