Job Description
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.
Requirements:
- Previous start up (or tech company) experience required
- Master's degree or PHD or 10+ years of experience in a related field
- 5 years+ of commercial experience, Minimum of 3 years in Data Science
- At least 1 year of prior (commercial) leadership experience
- Expertise in big data platforms such as MongoDB, Hadoop
- Hands on Experience with Apache Spark
- Hands on Experience with Python or Java
- Experience with Kafka, Flume is preferred
- Expertise in data mining, machine learning
- NLP experience strongly preferred
- Experience in AWS
This is a Director role but still requires strong technical knowledge.
Compensation is well above market for the right candidate. Base + Equity. For more information, please inquire.