Senior Data Scientist - Metrics

About Moloco:

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms. 

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024-certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:

We are seeking a passionate and motivated Senior Data Scientist - to join Moloco's Metrics team. In this role you will partner with data scientists, engineers, PMs, and marketing across the company to improve and amplify our use of data and machine learning in order to derive better insights on our users and our business. In this role, you will work on developing metrics, investigating metric trends, productionizing metrics and insights into self-service tools. The ideal candidate will have the right mix of hard and soft skills that allows them to conduct rigorous analysis, mentor junior data scientists, present findings to the leadership, provide tactical or strategic advice on the business and so on.

In this role, you will:

• Shape the direction of some of our key data science areas via metric related work, including aggregation, segmentation, investigation, attribution, etc.
• Effectively communicate actionable insights to all levels of the organization with varying degrees of data science understanding and backgrounds.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior data scientists on technical solutions, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment within the team.
• Represent the metric data science field throughout the organization via standardizing the metrics across the company, having a powerful voice to make us more data-driven.
• Build self-serving data science products to make analytics simpler within the company.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement data science initiatives that align with business goals, and communicate insights and recommendations to collaborators in a clear and actionable way.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product Management, Data Science and Marketing to understand metric usage and trends and make data-driven decisions and recommendations.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative field, such as mathematics, statistics, physics, economics, computer sc