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.