Senior Manager Data Science, Moloco
Product Analytics
$240-315k
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
Open for applications
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$240-315k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading product data science teams and elevating analytical quality across an organization
- Strong people leadership skills, including mentoring and coaching, fostering a growth mindset, and supporting career development
- Empathetic and thoughtful leadership style, with the ability to be decisive and hold teams accountable
- Experience delegating effectively while maintaining high standards for execution and impact
- Strong communication skills with a solid technical foundation
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Business leaders
- Ability to clearly communicate data insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders and external customers
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to frame ambiguous product questions and translate them into analytical approaches
- Comfort working with large datasets and applying statistical methods to drive decisions
- Proven ability to own and deliver org-wide initiatives end-to-end, translating analysis into business impact
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Statistics: Strong expertise in experimental design, hypothesis testing, and statistical analysis (e.g., regression, linear models)
- Programming: Experience with Python, R, or similar scripting languages; proficiency in SQL and data manipulation tools (e.g., Pandas, dplyr)
- Ability to build strong working relationships with product, engineering, and business partners in a global organization
- 10+ years of experience in data science or related quantitative fields, with demonstrated impact on complex products
- 5+ years of experience leading and scaling data science teams, including managing managers
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, and/or PhD in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or related fields
What the job involves
- The Moloco Ads Data Science team provides the analytics, measurement, and insights that guide Moloco’s product and business strategy
- As a leader of the Product Data Science function for Moloco Ads, you will partner closely with senior Product Management, Engineering, and Business leaders to deliver high-quality analysis and insights that shape our product roadmap and long-term vision
- This is a hands-on, high-growth, high-impact leadership role with responsibility for setting analytical standards, driving org-wide initiatives, and leading and growing a team of data scientists and data science managers
- Define and own the metrics that measure the health of the Moloco Ads product end-to-end
- Establish clear input/output metrics across core ML, bidding, and delivery components
- Build causal frameworks to understand performance drivers and business tradeoffs
- Guide launch and ramp decisions through rigorous experimentation and A/B testing
- Communicate metric movements and insights clearly to Moloco Ads leadership
- Conduct deep-dive analyses on large-scale datasets to extract meaningful signal from noise
- Design and execute experiments that inform product and algorithmic decisions
- Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations that improve Moloco’s complex ML and bidding systems and drive customer performance
- Develop a holistic understanding of Moloco’s ads ecosystem and its interconnected components
- Diagnose performance changes and system issues using robust monitoring and diagnostic frameworks
- Leverage and build AI-powered analytics and decision-support tools (e.g., experimentation platforms, automated insights, LLM-enabled analysis workflows)
- Enable teams across Moloco to access insights at scale and make faster, better data-driven decisions
Our take
Moloco offers a cutting-edge platform that allows app developers and eCommerce marketplaces to fuel their growth through machine learning-driven advertising. Its suite of tools enables users to fine-tune campaigns, enhance user engagement, and broaden outreach, ultimately boosting profitability.
Positioned as the premier demand-side platform for ad performance across the open internet, Moloco has experienced substantial growth, securing significant funding and achieving Unicorn status in mid-2021. At the core of its Cloud DSP and Retail Media Platform lies a powerful ML engine leveraging deep neural networks (DNNs), facilitating automated, profitable, and scalable growth strategies for marketers.
Continuously evolving its flagship DSP with advanced features, Moloco consistently sets new benchmarks in ad spend. With expansion into retail media and MLaaS offerings, Moloco aims to democratize access to advanced machine learning capabilities for businesses of all sizes.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $191.6m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness: Competitive health (100% coverage for you), dental, vision and life insurance for you and your family. In addition, enjoy membership to Calm, Headspace, Spring Health, as well as fitness and health reimbursements
- Professional development: $2,500 Learning and Development stipend annually to grow yourself professionally
- Food and snacks: Enjoy lunch on us. We bring lunch in for employees everyday, In addition, our kitchens are filled with healthy snacks and beverages for you to enjoy
- Paid parental leave: Our parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers have you covered when you welcome a new child into your family
- Unlimited vacation: We encourage team members to take time off to relax and recharge with our flexible paid time off policy. We also offer leave time for various reasons
- Financial benefits: We provide equity and generous retirement benefits that help you prepare for your future. In addition, home office setup and phone, internet and transportation reimbursements
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ikkjin Ahn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at O1 and Humanex, before spending 2 years at YouTube and 3 at Google.
David Sehyuk Park
(Co-Founder & CIO)Prior to co-founding Moloco in 2013, David spent nearly 7 years at Oracle Corporation as a Software Engineer.
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