Our client is a well-funded (Series B) Adtech company that runs and manages native advertisements. This LA-based company is seeking a Director of Data Science to lead a team of strong Data Engineers and Data Scientists.

About you:

You're highly technical, in data science and engineering. You have a mentorship style of leadership and appreciate an open workplace where you can be collaborative and drive projects and growth.

Skills:

Previous start up (or tech company) experience highly preferred
Master's degree or PhD preferred
5 years+ of commercial experience, Minimum of 3 years in Data Science
At least 1 year of leadership experience
Expertise in big data platforms such as MongoDB, Hadoop
Hands on Experience with Apache Spark preferred
Hands on Experience with Python or Java
Experience with Kafka, Flume is preferred
Expertise in data mining, machine learning
NLP experience strongly preferred

This is a Director role but still requires strong technical hands on knowledge

Compensation is well above market for the right candidate (up to $220,000 DOE) + Equity.

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