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2016-12-04 05:46:27
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VICE PRESIDENT, MEASUREMENT & DATA SCIENCE Loc : New York City, NY
2016-12-04 05:46:27
Job Type:
Full Time only
Budget $: 100,000 - 200,000
Budget $: 100,000 - 200,000
Responsibilities
- Lead, nurture, and grow a data science team Manage multiple projects in parallel and oversee their completion from start to finish, setting goals and project milestones
- Promote best practices for statistical analyses and machine learning modeling Help determine what metrics are critical to the organization, construct predictive models to optimize those metrics, and build out those projects into useful data products
- Use first/third party data sources across digital, linear and social platforms to better understand VMNs audience and derive insights to increase the value of VMN brands
- Work collaboratively with other data strategy teams within the organization Communicate results to key stake holders Basic
- Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (PhDs preferred)
- 10+ years of work experience in advanced data analytics/data science
- 5+ years of experience managing/leading
- A team of data scientists with a track record of overseeing multiple data science and machine learning projects at all stages: from idea generation to objectives formulation to implementation and deliverables
- Extensive experience with data exploration, data cleaning, implementation of advanced statistical and machine learning algorithms (e.g., time-series analysis and forecasting, clustering, and advanced classification and regression techniques such as decision trees, neural networks, deep learning, and ensemble algorithms),
- As well as rigorous model validation and evaluation
- Fluency in at least 1 of the following programming
- Python, R, C, C++, or SAS 2-5+ years of experience with design and management of relational (SQL) and non-relational (No SQL) databases; familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red shift is a plus Knowledge of Spark or Hadoop is a plus
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to develop and guide team members to deliver actionable results
- Excellent verbal, written and formal presentation skills
- Comfortable interacting across multiple teams and management levels with in the organization
- Previous background in the media landscape (linear, digital, or social) is a plus
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