Head of Machine Learning

Palta is a multi-product tech platform developing several mobile apps focused on health and well-being with a combined audience of more than 50 million monthly active users. Our portfolio includes such successful companies as Flo (global leader in female health), Simple (12m+ downloads, the most popular intermittent fasting app in the US), Zing (personal fitness trainer), and more. 
The rapid portfolio growth is fuelled by the recently raised $100 million in a series B round led by VNV Global.

Palta Brain is the culture, the team and the platform that helps Palta products thrive while delighting our customers.

The foundational level consists of vital bricks of our businesses: data platform and analytics/BI tools, Palta Brain SDK, payments/monetization services, connected 3rd-party platforms (such as AWS SageMaker, Braze, etc.) & more.

The aspirational level is an ambitious vision to create the world's most empathetic self-care tech - the tech that will nudge people to change. We believe that because 2/3 of fatal diseases are caused by lifestyle, we must help people to change their habits and behaviour towards healthier choices. With cutting-edge ML algorithms, we optimize our products and communications with our users to help them achieve their nutrition, fitness, sleep and overall well-being goals. Once it's ready, we're happy to open the platform to aid people beyond the Palta ecosystem. We are looking for a visionary tech leader who will embark at this - still early - stage and harness billions of data points to develop a health tech with a soul.

Key Responsibilities

• Be in charge of Palta Brain's vision, strategy and execution.
• Define, own, and execute OKRs and roadmap
• Manage a team of 20+ people, be a leader, mentor, and coach for a brilliant team of professionals
• Deeply understand Palta and Palta portfolio companies' business drivers, the metrics and the experiences that impact our growth.
• Drive customer-first approach through building relationships across the organization to ensure understanding of business cases, requirements, problems, and issues of Palta and startups teams
• Proactively identify and address problems and opportunities for the Palta portfolio companies.
• Build a strong data-driven culture to generate insights and identify growth drivers
• Successfully launch the cross-service monetization platform and ensure the smooth migration process for all the Palta portfolio companies.
• Act as the data privacy advocate to ensure all internal and external requirements are met.

What drives success for this role

• Deep understanding of the tech side: hands-on experience with ML and high-performance services (ad networks is a good example, we optimize data for good, not for the eyeballs)
• Business-oriented proactive mindset, understanding various monetization models (subscription, F2P, transactional, etc.), and understanding of the mobile apps market and subscription-based apps is a huge plus.
• Deep understanding of modern tech stack, platforms, platform as a service concept, data platforms, payment and monetization services, experimentation services, etc.
• Analytical mindset and problem-solving orientation
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Great people management skills, ability to build processes and influence cross-functionally
• Proven experience in launching and managing complex cross-functional projects
• Being resourceful, optimistic, tenacious, confident, and full of energy
• Being a self-starter, forward-thinking, innovative, and agile. Comfortable taking on a high level of responsibility and driving continuous improvement
• Being ambitious, results-driven with a bias to action, with a passion for making an impact and exceeding your goals
• Being adaptable and flexible, comfortable being thrown into a largely ambiguous environment.
• Being not only passionate about health & well-being but also living by "practice what you preach."

Key Qualifications

• Proven track record in developing marketing, analytical or BI services - as SaaS or an ad network
• Tech-savvy, with prior experience in software engineering, ML and product management 
• Has previously been fully responsible for a substantial PnL
• Experience in developing a consumer-focused b2b business or product
• Experience in managing teams of 30+
• Experience working in cross-cultural international teams
• Fluent business English

What we offer

• An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback because we understand this is the only way to grow, both individually and collectively
• Top of the market salary and meaningful equity. We will make an ambitious offer tailored to each person.
• Visa sponsorship to UK and EU
• The passionate and highly skilled international team
• Palta is a large and rapidly growing Health & Well-being tech company with a proven track record of developing great products.

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