Staff Data Scientist, The Trade Desk

Buying/Markets

$133.7-245.1k

All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.

SQL

AWS

Python

Scala

Java

Spark

Vertica

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

Denver

San Francisco Bay Area

Data-first media buying platform

Job no longer available

Data-first media buying platform

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseMarketingDigital MediaSaaSAdvertisingAPIData Analysis

Job no longer available

$133.7-245.1k

SQL

AWS

Python

Scala

Java

Spark

Vertica

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

Denver

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseMarketingDigital MediaSaaSAdvertisingAPIData Analysis

Company mission

To transform media for the benefit of humankind by helping brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and setting a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have a sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful machine learning projects. You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing
You have a strong sense of data intuition. At our scale, many off-the-shelf modelling techniques (open source and enterprise) simply don't work. You are able to work from first principles and intuition to develop solutions and adapt them to a unique environment
You are a broadly skilled data scientist with experience embedding models into always-on production systems, working across a variety of technologies and data sources
You have a product-focused mindset. You have the passion and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and push forward one of the world’s largest and most influential industries toward a vision of openness, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making
You work with confidence and without ego. Our data scientists have deep knowledge and exercise a high degree of leadership in their daily work. You have strongly-held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right. You are also adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to support your fellow teammates
You value, seek out, and foster diversity. We are a global team from many diverse backgrounds, with different experiences and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be skilled at finding and building from common ground
You are a creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been done." What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We don't need data scientists who know all the answers; we need data scientists who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet, to the questions yet to be asked
You have an abundance of intellectual curiosity and are enthusiastic to learn (and teach) new technologies / techniques
You are you comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents
You are able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences
You have over 8 years of experience working in a data-driven role. Some of those years of experience may have been spent pursuing an advanced degree in a quantitative field, but it’s not a requirement. What and how you can contribute is what’s most important to us which is why our consideration is not limited by the level of education you have
You have experience with big data technologies such as Spark or AWS; are able to write efficient SQL; and are proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: R, Python, Java, or Scala.
Variety of technical challenge is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a data scientist though which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start. What we care about is that you can learn quickly and solve complex problems using the best tools for the job

What the job involves

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to join the markets team
In markets, we build innovative products to ensure advertisers are buying media as efficiently as possible, design algorithms to regulate ad spend while balancing pre-negotiated contracts and KPI performance, and conduct fundamental research on forecasting and planning that will shift the ad buying paradigm in TV
Our Data Scientists are end-to-end owners. You will participate actively in all aspects of designing, researching, building, delivering and monitoring data-focused products for our clients
Data Scientists contribute to more than our product – they build up our team. Through a combination of mentoring and technical leadership, they make others better and raise the bar for those around them
Depending on the team, you may either be working with advanced statistical models on complex data, cutting edge ML models or recommendation engines to optimize ad performance
In this team you will work on the development and end to end production of ETLs and data science models (statistical/ML/optimisation/recommendation) that operate on truly big data
You will also build prototypes to prove the idea and advise engineers to build up dashboards as well as reporting and measurement capabilities using Vertica as our data warehouse

Our take

Effective advertising in the digital age is almost impossible without the use of data to drive targeting, with first-party data commonly being used for such purposes. However, making use of such data can be difficult without the right analytic tools, and executing advertisement campaigns that make use of it can be even more challenging.

The Trade Desk provides a demand-side marketplace for building digital media campaigns, allowing businesses to plan and buy digital media, harness the power of their data, and customize publishing through APIs. The marketplace partners with over 225 data, inventory, brand safety, and publisher businesses to provide its services, whilst offering expert digital marketing advice and an e-learning platform called Edge Academy.

Whilst other advertisement marketplaces are available to businesses, The Trade Desk stands out with its approach of not only providing companies with the business partnerships they need but also advising and educating them on how to utilize them effectively. Its latest offering, Galileo, enables advertisers to onboard and activate their first-party data quickly and easily, bringing direct integrations with CRM, CDP and clean room providers, including Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Habu, InfoSum, LiveRamp, Salesforce and Snowflake.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

22% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Mar 2016

$60m

SERIES C

Feb 2014

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $82.5m

Company HQ

Downtown Ventura, Ventura, CA

Leadership

Jeff Green

(Founder & CEO)

Founded Search.com. Former COO of Microsoft's AdECN.

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