Lead Data Scientist
United States
Nielsen
A global leader in audience insights, data and analytics, Nielsen shapes the future of media with accurate measurement of what people listen to and watch.Lead Data Scientist - Big Data in TV Measurement Including big data sources in the National TV ratings is a crucial component of Nielsen ONE, Nielsen’s long-term vision for a standardized single source of cross-platform content and ad measurement. The Big Data in TV Measurement initiative will expand Nielsen’s core audience measurement capabilities to encompass TV programs and ad exposures, including both linear ads and dynamically inserted ads that target specific audiences.
This work requires integrating data from addressable-capable data partners, such as smart TVs and digital cable and satellite providers, with Nielsen’s traditional panel measurement. We are currently looking for a Lead Data Scientist to support the development and implementation of foundational statistical methodologies to measure TV content and ad viewership from big data sources.
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex research projects from beginning to end -- direct project planning, develop innovative new methodologies, enhance existing methodologies, run simulations and analyses, etc.
- Supervise and collaborate with other Data Scientists to execute research and development tasks
- Support deployment and maintenance of data pipelines and models in a production environment
- Work with cross-functional teams to productionize, validate, and optimize methodologies
- Provide technical guidance and training for other team members
- Summarize, document, and communicate research findings to audiences of varying levels of subject matter expertise
- Stay abreast of developments in research methodology and changing technologies in the marketplace and proactively identify applications of these latest developments to improve existing methods
Qualifications:
- Masters degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, social sciences, biological and physical sciences, computer science, or engineering
- 4+ years research experience in a business setting
- Expertise in data analytics, statistics, and machine learning techniques
- Proficient in Python and and SQL (and/or PySpark and Spark SQL)
- Proficient with statistical and machine learning libraries (e.g., scikit learn, Spark MLlib)
- Well-versed with data visualization tools (e.g., Matplotlib, Plotly, Tableau)
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, AWS)
- Software engineering experience, including version control (git), unit/integration testing, code review
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- #LI-SF1
- #LI-Remote
Tags: AWS Big Data Computer Science Data Analytics Data pipelines Data visualization Engineering Git Machine Learning Mathematics Matplotlib Pipelines Plotly PySpark Python Research Scikit-learn Spark SQL Statistics Tableau Testing
More jobs like this
Explore more AI, ML, Data Science career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open Marketing Data Analyst jobs
- Open MLOps Engineer jobs
- Open Junior Data Scientist jobs
- Open AI Engineer jobs
- Open Data Engineer II jobs
- Open Senior Data Architect jobs
- Open Power BI Developer jobs
- Open Senior Business Intelligence Analyst jobs
- Open Data Analytics Engineer jobs
- Open Sr Data Engineer jobs
- Open Manager, Data Engineering jobs
- Open Principal Data Engineer jobs
- Open Business Data Analyst jobs
- Open Product Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Quality Analyst jobs
- Open Data Manager jobs
- Open Sr. Data Scientist jobs
- Open Big Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Scientist II jobs
- Open Business Intelligence Developer jobs
- Open Data Analyst Intern jobs
- Open ETL Developer jobs
- Open Principal Data Scientist jobs
- Open Azure Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Product Manager jobs
- Open Business Intelligence-related jobs
- Open Data quality-related jobs
- Open Privacy-related jobs
- Open Data management-related jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open ML models-related jobs
- Open Finance-related jobs
- Open Data visualization-related jobs
- Open Deep Learning-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open PyTorch-related jobs
- Open PhD-related jobs
- Open Consulting-related jobs
- Open TensorFlow-related jobs
- Open Snowflake-related jobs
- Open NLP-related jobs
- Open Data governance-related jobs
- Open Data warehouse-related jobs
- Open Airflow-related jobs
- Open Databricks-related jobs
- Open Hadoop-related jobs
- Open LLMs-related jobs
- Open DevOps-related jobs
- Open CI/CD-related jobs