Staff Data Scientist, Integral Ad Science
$135.1-231.6k
Plus annual bonus and/or other incentive plans
Global media measurement & optimization
Open for applications
Global media measurement & optimization
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$135.1-231.6k
Plus annual bonus and/or other incentive plans
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality.
Role
Who you are
- PhD or masters in a quantitative discipline (e.g., mathematics, statistics, computerscience, physics, economics, computational neuroscience)
- 6-10+ years experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches and ML methods in a business environment
- Practical experience building ML systems, ideally using weak supervision and automated data labeling
- Experience with and a passion for embracing the latest AI tools that are evolving
- End-to-end ownership of your work: from prototyping, debugging, evaluation, optimization, production deployment, to live monitoring
- Knowledge of cutting edge research in ML applications and deep learning
- Capable of using SQL to answer key data questions at the drop of a hat
- Expertise in standard scripting languages used in data science for statistical computation: Python, R
- Enthusiasm for telling stories with data, deep understanding of how data works and flows through systems to produce business outcomes
- An innate curiosity about data problems, strongly held commitment to getting to the bottom of things
- A love of science, the scientific method, and faith in your fellow practitioners in the scientific trade
What the job involves
- As a Staff Data Scientist at IAS, you will be part of a team that is at the center of innovation for the company and a major contributor to our core products
- As part of the data science group at IAS, you will push the boundaries of applications of machine learning (ML) and deliver best-in-class solutions to serve our clients
- Innovation is at the heart of our competitive advantage, and innovation starts with people and culture
- You will join a group of data scientists committed to deep collaboration and high quality scientific research, ultimately producing a lasting impact on the IAS business
- The types of challenges we solve have attracted people from industry and academia with diverse backgrounds, ranging from ML, mathematics, physics, biology, neuroscience, and computer science to finance and economics
- We’re passionate about maintaining an open and collaborative environment, where team members bring their own unique style of thinking and tools to the table
- Drive innovative research within the data science team, improve the accuracy and increase the scope of our multimedia content classification for targeting & avoidance in web, mobile, CTV, gaming, social media etc
- Collaborate with the Threat Lab, understand the nature of evolving fraud schemes and invent creative, quantitative solutions to identify and stop them
- Develop automated ML systems based on science, data, and ML applications. Communicate the value they add to multiple stakeholders across the organization, socialize the predictive power and business value of data-driven ML
- Join a team of highly motivated ML researchers and developers, own projects from end-to-end, while collaborating with team members, learning, mentoring, contributing to the collective impact data science has on the IAS business
- Collaborate with engineers to integrate fraud solutions within larger engineering workflows
- Mentor junior data scientists to innovate and build high quality fraud solutions
- Respond to internal and client-facing incidents as they arise
Our take
Integral Ad Science (IAS) provides verification, optimization, and analytics solutions for the ad industry. It’s a sector that has changed radically since the company was founded back in 2009, but IAS has shown remarkable business savviness in navigating the ups, downs, and advances of the intervening years.
Since being acquired by Vista in 2018, IAS has implemented an aggressive acquisitions strategy of its own. This saw IAS extend its footprint to cover blockchain, TV, photo, and video content, deepen its partnership with TikTok, and expand its safety and suitability measurement program in Twitter. And this helped IAS diversify its product offering to remain competitive in the increasingly crowded adtech and martech markets.
IAS now has a substantial global footprint, and following an IPO has been demonstrating impressive sales, with year-on-year revenue growth exceeding 25% over 2022. Armed with a strong foundation and a road map that balances its focus between traditional advertising and new avenues like web3, its future looks set to be bright.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2014
$30m
SERIES D
Apr 2012
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $49.8m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: comprehensive health insurance
- Flexible PTO: Take what you need, when you need it
- Retirement: 401k match in the US, country-specific pension plans
- Parental leave: Full maternity and paternity leave
- Community: Volunteer opportunities
- Celebrating team players: Peer-nominated awards
- Meals and snacks: Stocked kitchens to fuel your day
- Team events: Frequent happy hours, parties and outings
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Lisa Utzschneider
(CEo)Prior to joining Integral Ad Science in 2018, Lisa spent 3 years at Yahoo working as an SVP of American Sales and then as CRO. She also spent 6 years at Amazon as a Global VP of Advertising Sales and 10 years at Google as a GM of Sales.
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