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Senior Data Scientist

Karnataka, India (Hybrid)

Senior Data Scientist

4 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Data Analyst • Undisclosed

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Job Description

Verve is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with 5+ years of industry experience, especially in advertising. A postgraduate degree in a quantitative field is required, along with proficiency in Python, SQL, PySpark, TensorFlow, Sklearn. This role will focus on Ad-Exchange Optimization projects, including win price prediction and supply/demand forecasting.

Must have:

Data Scientist
Industry Experience
Python, SQL
Machine Learning

Good to have:

Auction Optimization
Time Series Forecasting
Game Theory
State-Space Modeling

Perks:

Wellness Days
Training Budget

About the job

Job Description

Who We Are

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 13 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at www.verve.com.

About The Role

In this role you will work closely with product, engineering and sales teams to drive the use of Data Science across the Verve Group, collaborate with our audience-focused Data Science team and with the Machine Learning Engineers to engineer prototypes into solutions.

What You Will Do

DOMAIN

In this role your main focus would be on our Ad-Exchange Optimization projects

Win Price Prediction in various auctions setups - 1st price, 2nd price, Waterfall

Supply forecasting — Modeling time dependent supply availability

Demand forecasting — Modeling time dependent demand interest

Inventory valuation — Assessing true value of inventory in open market

Traffic Shaping — Time dependent supply and demand matching

Research and Development

Our Data Science role includes the following responsibilities:

Research and development of cutting edge Machine Learning systems, models, and schemes in many different areas of Adtech

Develop real-time algorithms for campaign and bidding optimization

Discover insights/patterns in exchange data

Design experiments, oversee A/B testing, evaluate the quality of derived assets and continuously monitor model performance

Create proof of concepts and data science prototypes

Search and select appropriate data sets

Perform statistical analysis and use results to improve models

Identify differences in data distribution that could affect model performance in real-world situations

Visualize data for deeper insights

Analyze the use cases of ML algorithms and ranking them by their success probability

Understanding when your findings can be applied to business decisions

Reducing business problems into optimization problems

Verifying data quality

Job Requirements

What You Will Bring

5+ years experience working as a Data Scientist in industry (preferably in advertising) is a must

A postgraduate degree in a relevant quantitative field (e.g. applied mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, physics, operations research, economics, behavioral sciences). PhD is a strong plus,

Fluent in statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning,

Proficient in Python, SQL, PySpark, TensorFlow, Sklearn,

Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems,

Willingness to learn and work in a team-oriented and constantly changing environment.

Nice to have

Previous experience in

Auction optimization

Highly imbalanced classification problems

Game theory

Time series forecasting

State-space modeling

Function-Approximation Algorithms

What We Also Work With

We work with a wide range of tools, technologies and processes. The right candidate should have willingness to learn new technologies. In this role is you will get hands-on experience with many established and emerging technologies:

Technologies:

GCP and AWS,

BigQuery,

DevOps tooling:

CI/CD,

Docker,

Airflow,

Kubernetes,

Grafana,

Jupyterhub

Other:

Challenging constraints (high volume, low latency),

Integrating with high performance technologies,

Efficient work with Big Data (wrangling, modeling, low latency inference),

Developing data-driven products.

What We Offer

Join one of the top privacy-first omnichannel ad platforms and gaming companies

Be part of a multicultural team (55+ nationalities) that is bringing advertising to the next level

Benefit from working with some of the most experienced professionals in our industry and constantly grow with us

You will learn and evolve in an empowering environment characterized by entrepreneurial actions

Responsibility, independence, and an opportunity to participate in projects that have a significant impact on Verve Group’s success

3 Wellness days per year to help you maintain your well-being (in Q1, Q2 and Q3 after min. 90 days of employment)

Enhance your professional skills with a yearly training budget and improve your language skills through German and/or English classes.

Work and Travel Program (monthly raffle after 2 years of employment)

We are happy to build a great team together and we appreciate your help through our Employee Referral Bonus

Align your interests with the company's success and take part in our Employee Shares Purchase Plan

You will be entitled to 18 holidays per year in addition to any of the public/bank holidays

Personalized Benefits Platform; with a budget of 4100 INR/month, you can choose the benefits that fit you best from the following options:

Mobility and travel

Entertainment and food

Fitness and health care

Enjoy food and beverage benefits with colleagues and have fun during team events

Medical insurance for self and family

Verve Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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