Senior Data Scientist - Ads

Hello, Truecaller is calling you from Bangalore, India! Ready to pick up?

Our goal is to make communication smarter, safer, and more efficient, while building trust across the world. With our roots in Sweden and a global reach, we deliver smart services that create meaningful social impact. We are committed to protecting you from fraud, harassment, scam calls, and unwanted messages, so you can focus on the conversations that matter.

• Top 20 most downloaded apps globally, and world’s #1 caller ID and spam-blocking service for Android and iOS, with extensive AI capabilities, with more than 450 million active users per month.
• Founded in 2009, listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and is categorized as a Large Cap. Our focus on innovation, operational excellence, sustainable growth, and collaboration has resulted in consistently high profitability and strong EBITDA margins.

A team of 400 people from ~45 different nationalities spread across our headquarters in Stockholm and offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Tel Aviv with high ambitions.

We at the Ads Team

We at Ads Product are all about making Ads more meaningful & relevant to our users and help drive marketing objectives for our partners/advertisers. Ads is one of the primary ways Truecaller monetizes the APP, and thus holds a critical role in driving Truecaller revenues. Our scale boasts about: ~7 BN impressions (globally) per day, thus making Truecaller one of the largest standalone publishers in India and emerging markets like Egypt, North Africa etc.

Mission - The Ads team is responsible for monetizing Truecaller inventory through ads by offering targeted advertising solutions to our demand partners.

Responsible for - Driving revenue growth for Truecaller by building ads solutions and selling our ads offerings to our advertiser partners in India and outside.

We operate at planetary scale, processing hundreds of terabytes of data daily and petabytes of data monthly. Our infrastructure supports billions of ad requests and impressions every day, requiring advanced distributed data processing, large-scale machine learning pipelines, and serious performance engineering to deliver insights and decisions at this magnitude.

As a Senior Data Scientist

You will be responsible for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting Truecaller data and drawing insightful conclusions with the aim of enhancing BU’s road map, business plan, and customer experience. The individual will possess a proactive mindset in tackling novel business problems, leveraging advanced analytical techniques and tools to extract valuable insights from large and complex datasets. You exhibit a strong inclination towards data exploration and hypothesis testing, with a focus on continuously improving the accuracy and efficiency of analytical models. You will work in close collaboration with the product, engineering, and platform team in order to identify and follow up on metrics, evaluate A/B tests and user behavior, and identify product insights. The role requires working both independently and proactively with identifying improvement opportunities as well as being involved in separate projects. The Data Scientist will act as an advisor to the BU's product improvement, strategy building, and management team by identifying and communicating data insight

What you bring in:

• 5+years of experience in Data Science OR relevant PhD + 1 years of industry experience.
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms focusing on regression, classifications, clustering, probability networks, association rules, deep neural networks, and reinforcement learning.
• Extensive experience with analytical and quantitative problem-solving.
• Experience with common analysis tools such as jupyter, open source or commercially available libraries.
• Programming knowledge in at least one language such as Python , along with excellent SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience with Python data science libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Matplotlib/Seaborn etc.

Familiarity with ML lifecycle management tools such as Kubeflow and MLflow is a strong plus.

• Experience in data modeling on Big Query, Hive/Spark/Hadoop/Kafka ecosystem.
• Knowledge of database modeling and data warehousing principles

The impact you will create:

• Applying cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and statistical models to uncover meaningful insights from large and complex datasets.
• Constructing predictive models that utilize historical data to forecast trends and anticipate future outcomes with accuracy and precision.
• Collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting all data and drawing insightful conclusions which enable us to work in a smarter way.
• Create visual interpretations from data and explain graphs and charts with insightful notes and summaries.
• Analyzing user data and assisting product development in finding new innovative ways of presenting and making use of data.
• Collaborating with other BU's to identify business problems and develop data-driven solutions.
• Support our management team in identifying, measuring, and following up on key metrics.
• Providing regular, accurate, and comprehensive statistical reports.
• Providing objective insight and analysis to influence decision making.
• Ensuring quality of data and actively working on cleaning data to make sure of top notch relevance and accuracy.
• Actively keep up to date on external market and data research and work towards adding data points from external sources to our own data in order to create a value added analysis.

It would be great if you also have:

Data science background in digital advertising, marketing analytics, or ad-tech will be a strong plus.Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery will be a strong plus.

• Experience with data science best practices, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
• Hands-on experience in building large scale platforms & services using Scala, Kafka & Nosql stores.
• Experience with GCP or any other public cloud.
• Good English skills, oral and written

Life at Truecaller

Behind the code: https://www.instagram.com/lifeattruecaller/

Sounds like your dream job?

We will fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate, so please send your application as soon as possible. As part of the recruitment process, we will conduct a background check.

This position is based in Bangalore, India.

We only accept applications in English.

What we offer:

• A smart, talented and agile team: An international team where ~35 nationalities are working together in several locations and time zones with a learning, sharing and fun environment.
• A great compensation package: Competitive salary, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible working hours, private health insurance, parental leave, telephone bill reimbursement, Udemy membership to keep learning and improving and Wellness allowance.
• Great tech tools: Pick the computer and phone that you fancy the most within our budget ranges.
• Office life: We strongly believe in in-person collaboration and follow an office-first approach while offering some flexibility. Enjoy your days with great colleagues with loads of good stuff to learn from, daily lunch and breakfast and a wide range of healthy snacks and beverages. In addition, every now and then check out the playroom for a fun break or join our exciting parties and or team activities such as Lab days, sports meetups etc. There is something for everyone!

Come as you are:

Truecaller is diverse, equal and inclusive. We need a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs and experiences in order to keep building our great products. No matter where you are based, which language you speak, your accent, race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, etc. All those things make you who you are, and that’s why we would love to meet you.

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