Director, Data Science - Ads Platform

4 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Operations • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Lead and manage machine learning teams within Unity's Grow business. Requires strong technical understanding of SOTA machine learning methodologies, proven experience managing teams of 30+ data scientists and engineers, and in-depth knowledge of mobile ads.
Must have:
  • Machine Learning
  • Team Management
  • Mobile Ads
  • MLOps Experience
Good to have:
  • LLMs / NLP
  • Text Data
  • Research Leadership
  • Global Teams
Perks:
  • Cutting-Edge Projects
  • Global Collaboration

Job Details

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Director of Data Science to lead and manage our machine learning teams within Unity’s Grow business. This role is integral to our mission, requiring a balance of strategic vision and tactical execution. The ideal candidate will possess executive leadership capabilities and a deep technical understanding of state of the art (SOTA) machine learning methodologies and frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership: Manage and mentor an organization of autonomous Data Science teams, promoting excellent development practices and ensuring the timely delivery of commitments.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Business Insights, and Commercialization teams to align staffing and business priorities.

  • Performance Accountability: Foster a culture of accountability across all levels, establishing clear goals and measurable outcomes.

  • Cost Management: Collaborate with finance and cloud teams to manage costs associated with all services from training to inference.

  • Strategic Input: Contribute to the broader Unity technology leadership community by providing input into strategies and standards, ensuring solution reuse, and eliminating solution redundancy.

Qualifications

  • Team Management: Proven experience in managing and growing teams of over 30 data scientists and engineers.

  • Technical Expertise: Extensive experience with modern machine learning operations (‘MLOps’) infra, tooling and frameworks.

  • Ad Experience: In-depth knowledge of mobile ads.

  • Global Team Experience: Experience working with globally distributed teams.

  • Machine Learning Expertise: Experience in designing and building machine learning models for large scale environments.

  • Experience with LLMs / NLP and text data at scale.

Preferred Attributes

  • Collaborative Leadership: Ability to lead with collaboration yet make decisive decisions.

  • Natural Leader: Demonstrated natural leadership qualities and a strong team player.

  • Global Effectiveness: Comfort and effectiveness in working with globally distributed teams.

  • Research Leadership: Proven ability to push the boundary of technical research, with a publication and patent history that reflects this.

Why Join Us?

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to lead cutting-edge projects, collaborate with diverse teams globally, and make a significant impact on our product and business strategy. If you are a visionary leader with a passion for technology and innovation, we would love to hear from you.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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