Principal Data Scientist , Search and Personalization (15258) - United States (Remote)

Principal Data Scientist, Search and Personalization - United States (Remote) 
Duration: Permanent Location: United States (Remote) Start: ASAP
Due to the current conditions of COVID-19, this key position will initially work from home, until such a time when we return to our office.

Who You Are:

• We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist to lead the development of our search, personalization, and recommendations. Using your deep machine learning expertise while considering the broader business context, you will lead, and guide our data scientists, and analysts team to develop industry-leading recommendations in visual search. This position will have a direct impact on the search and browse paths for millions of customers and drive key conversion metrics!

Your Next Challenge:

• Build industry-leading algorithms using our images, metadata, and/or customer interactions to significantly improve our customers’ image/video search and discovery experiences
• Lead, guide, and mentor data scientists and data analysts in formulating, and implementing our strategy
• Develop our technical ranking roadmap alongside product, team members, and leadership. Distilling customer requirements into problem definitions and identifying measures of success
• Develop and implement online and offline testing and validation methodologies
• Partner with data engineers, machine learning engineers, and search engineers to implement and deploy new ranking algorithms in the production process

What You'll Need:

• Proven expertise building and validating search, personalization, recommendation, and/or newsfeed algorithms for customer-facing products
• A minimum of 5 years validated experience
• Proven expertise as a technical lead providing mentorship and guidance to team members.
• A strong understanding of the real-world advantages and drawbacks of various algorithms and the ability to measure success
• Ability to handle ambiguity, priorities, and competing objectives. Experience solving highly technical problems
• Hands-on experience with accessing data, Python, machine learning libraries, and deep learning libraries (ex: scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, scipy, TensorFlow, SQL, hive, spark, etc.)
• Ability to write clean, understandable code that follows leading industry standards and practices and is well-documented, and to build easily reproducible models
• An ability to consider biases that exist in the data and develop solutions to mitigate biases appropriately
• Outstanding interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate at all levels, including explaining sophisticated technical solutions to non-experts
• Open listener, ability to be open to many diverse voices and perspectives
• You are clear, credible, and forward-thinking!
• A Ph.D. or MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Sociology, Natural Sciences, or any equivalent field is helpful

Mental and Physical Demands:

• A quiet location with reliable high-speed internet connectivity, environment suitable for professional work (desk, chair, external monitor, etc.)
• Frequent communication with others to exchange information
• Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary
• Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc
• Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment

Benefits at Getty Images Health InsuranceWe provide Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance for you and your family. We partner with Meritain (An Aetna Company), and CVS Caremark to provide you with two options for medical coverage - a POS plan and an HSA-qualified (Health Savings Account) Plan. The POS plan comes with a $200 per year Getty Images contribution to an FSA account. If you enroll in the HSA plan, Getty Images will give you $1400-$2400 per year to spend on any qualified health expenses. Dental insurance is available through Delta Dental. Vision Insurance is available through VSP. All full-time employees working at least 25 hours per week will become eligible for health benefits the 1st of the month following their date of hire. Contributions to health care accounts are prorated based on the date of hire.  For more information on these benefits, you may request an electronic copy of our Benefits Guide.  Time off Work/life balance is important to usWe provide flexible time off and 10 sick days each calendar year. Additionally, we pay 4 weeks of fully-paid Parental Leave for new parents, with primary caregivers eligible for an additional 8 weeks of fully-paid leave.   Company Paid HolidaysEmployees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations. Disability a