Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers, and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, e-commerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

About our Data Scientist opportunity:

At Liftoff, our Data Scientists build systems that enable real-time recommendations for billions of ad requests daily. Focusing on the mobile app ecosystem, we leverage and combine our enormous and unique datasets to model click rate, conversion rates, bid prices, win rates and post-install user lifetime values. We contextually match our content across tens of thousands of apps. We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to develop models and algorithms behind our products, which helps our customers to maximize the value of users and the return on their ad spend. 

Responsibilities:

• Analyze data to identify useful relations, patterns and features that are predictive of user behaviors, preferences, intents, interests
• Continuously identify and explore new and unconventional data sources
• Design, develop, and implement statistical and machine learning models to predict competitive bidding landscape, click through rate, conversion/action rate, ad relevance to users etc.
• Generate hypothesis and design effective online experiments to continuously iterate and improve on advertising performance
• Take on unique model challenges of data sparsity, delayed feedback, as well as modeling in the context of privacy restrictions
• Work with engineering and operations teams to build systems and operational capabilities for implementing models and algorithms, and monitoring and evaluating their health and effectiveness in production
• Use strong communication skills (verbal and written) to explain statistical and machine learning concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborate with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds.
• Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience; Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Data Science, Engineering, or related field
• Solid understanding of probability distributions and statistical modeling 
• Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms
• Strong analytical skills
• Proficiency in one scientific programming language (Python is preferred)
• Hands on experiences with a deep learning framework (e.g. TensorFlow, Pytorch)
• Self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Passionate about helping others and investing in the team’s success.

Nice to have:

• Adtech experience is a major plus
• Experience maintaining high quality production code
• Experience deploying effective ML models to production
• Experience connecting to data sources and prototyping data pipelines
• Experience with Bayesian statistics and modeling

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work.  In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location.

The base pay range for this position in the US depends on the location and falls in the following zones:SF Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Orange County: $160,000 - 190,000Seattle/Olympia, Austin, Boston, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $150,000 - 175,000All other cities in our approved to hire states: $140,000 - 164,000

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.