Data Scientist

MediaLab is a media & technology company focused on acquiring and growing properties and global brands. The organization is a unique combination of private equity, holding company and operating entity. We continue to expand and are proud of the prominent market position of our brands.  
Come join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product and business builders. HQ is located in sunny Santa Monica, California with growing teams in New York, and across cities in the US and Latin America.
Your Role at MediaLab
As a Data Scientist, you will be researching and developing models that directly contribute to revenue growth. You will select, train, and tune ML models to specific business use cases, handing them off for deployment in active applications. You will interface with stakeholders from across the organization in order to deeply understand each case and to validate models during development.

What You'll Do

• Research solutions to business problems, selecting the most effective models for specific use cases
• Understand each business case in depth, interviewing stakeholders to develop the knowledge necessary to determine the best solutions
• Train and fine-tune models
• Produce clean, reproducible code that can be easily productionalized
• Work closely with ML Ops and the rest of the Data Team to get clean input data and to implement models into applications
• Produce solutions that drive improvement in KPIs for the company
• Work may include projects such as:
• Vectorizing website content and running ANN classification
• Training supervised ML models on labeled images and video to produce low-resolution tags on a vast collection of content (billions of posts)
• Developing dynamic bid floors for real-time bidding (RTB) auctions
• Improving automated spam-detection models

What We're Searching For

• 3-5 years professional experience as a Data Scientist building statistical models and AI/ML solutions
• Demonstrated ability to work through projects effectively, self-directing to involve stakeholders wherever necessary
• Advanced python skills including professional experience with common data science libraries (pandas, numpy/scipy)
• Demonstrated experience with the data science project lifecycle: problem definition; data investigation and preparation; model selection; training and validation
• Ability to write clear documentation
• Experience in the ad tech industry or working with RTB is a plus

At MediaLab, we rely on a range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We value diversity, and we’re proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.