Principal Data Scientist

Company Description

Vericast is a premier marketing solutions company that accelerates profitable revenue growth for the thousands of businesses it serves directly by influencing consumer purchasing and transaction behavior at scale while engaging with over 120 million households daily.  We are recognized as leading providers of incentives, advertising, marketing services, transaction solutions, customer data and cross-channel campaign management, and intelligent media delivery that create millions of customer touch points annually for their clients.  For more information, visit http://www.vericast.com or follow Vericast on LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Principal Data Scientist is an expert who is passionate about all aspects of data science and can contribute by designing, conducting, and incorporating analyses of data from end to end and from a wide variety of sources. This involves converting ambiguous requirements to concrete solutions for exploring data, designing and/or applying appropriate algorithms, documenting the findings, and incorporating the analysis into the system.

The ideal candidate deeply understands how data can be used to tell a story and inform decisions. The ideal candidate is an insightful visionary and a hands-on contributor who is excited about the complexity and challenges involved in creating intelligent, high-performance systems while working with a highly experienced and driven data science team.

If this describes you, we are interested. You can be an integral part of a cross-disciplinary team working on highly visible projects that improve performance and grow the intelligence in our product suite. Our day-to-day work is conducted in a progressive, high-tech workspace where we focus on a friendly, collaborative, and fulfilling environment. Our data science and engineering teams hold frequent team activities like hackathons and sandboxes that will help grow your skills and curiosity.
 

On any given day you will be...

• Working in an integrated Data Science, Engineering, and Product team to build new methods of targeting media based on web content.
• Working with the Engineering team to improve our architecture and services including web crawler optimization and scalable NLP computations.
• Using NLP to understand a webpage’s content and visitors to the webpage.
• Connecting crawler-derived features to consumer intent.
• Assisting other Data Science priorities like modeling campaign performance, identifying fraud, and attributing consumer actions to served media

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate will likely have…

• An advanced degree in a relevant, quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Machine Learning .
• Significant experience with big data distributed architectures such as Spark, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Docker.
• Significant experience with cloud platforms.
• Proficient in Python in a corporate setting.
• Experience with AdTech and MarTech is a big plus.
• Ability to grow and ultimately mentor team members of varying experience levels and competencies through data science, product and software development life cycles.
• Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders across different functions to manage change and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills to influence colleagues and manage business priorities.

Additional Information

Salary Range: $190-200K

The ultimate compensation offered for the position will depend upon several factors such as skill level, cost of living, experience, and responsibilities.

Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K and flexible PTO. A wide variety of additional benefits like life insurance, employee assistance and pet insurance are also available, not to mention smart and friendly coworkers!

At Vericast, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our community. As an Equal Opportunity employer, Vericast considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classifications protected by law. Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting our Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@vericast.com. EEO is the law. To review your rights under Equal Employment Opportunity please visit: www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.

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