Do you recognize yourself in the following?
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I’m self-motivated and highly responsible – I thrive on freedom
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I enjoy working in a dynamic and agile environment
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I'm always open to new ideas, perspectives and solutions
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I’m eager to learn, and love to share
- I'd love to work with a fun, informal and diverse bunch of people
- Then we are looking for you!
TL;DR:
As our Lead Data Scientist, you'll work with our talented data team,
co-founders, Product Manager and Lead Developer on bringing a
personalized experience to more than 30 million kids of all ages. You
will have a strong impact on our product development by designing
recommendation systems and ranking algorithms, setting things up for
growth to 100 million users and beyond. You will improve
our in-house analytics, and help to build our data science culture. You
combine professional experience working on user centric data science
for web platforms with leadership skills.
Your challenge:
Lead by example and expand our talented team of all round data
scientists, reporting to and working together with our co-founders
Shape our product together with our Product Manager by designing clever recommendation systems and ranking algorithms
Build robust data pipelines by extracting, processing and
modelling data. Use Machine Learning (e.g. gradient boosting and NN),
NLP (e.g. sentiment analysis and semantic linking) and other techniques
to enrich profiles and content, or do recommendations
Collaborate with our Lead Developer in the design and implementation of microservices that integrate seamlessly with our platform’s technology. Select the right tools for our situation
Improve our in-house analytics tools and get the most out of the
data collected by our SDK's. Grow Poki’s data science culture and
inspire, educate and empower other teams by sharing your knowledge and
experience
Set up a basic experimental design framework together with our
design and UX team, to allow our product teams and the game developers
we work with to build products users love
About our data:
Every month, over 30 million users come to our platform to interact
with 5,000 games as they generate more than 1 billion minutes of play
time, while the other side of our platform offers game developers useful
insights about their games. This is what our current data challenges
are about:
Scale: We're on a mission to build the ultimate online
playground, where 100 million kids of all ages play together on a daily
basis. Therefore all of our services and data warehousing should be
scalable. We currently use Google Cloud Platform
Enriched user profiles:
We're working on quickly enriching our users' profiles to serve our new
guests with the best possible recommendations from the start, tackling
the cold start problem
Implicit feedback possibilities: With billions of events
generated by our users on the platform as well as in-game, we can draw
insights from all levels of user behavior
Content enrichment: Our in-house content expertise enables
us to create more and more metadata for our games by combining content
tagging and semantic linking
You:
- Have 6+ years of professional experience working on user centric
data science for scalable web platforms. You have made a significant
impact on the products you worked on, implementing a broad range of data
science techniques
- Have 3+ years of professional experience in a leadership role.
You're a hands on leader and guide the team by aligning the company’s
strategy with your vision on data science. You are a good communicator
and share credits
- Have extensive experience in designing and implementing
recommendation systems and ranking algorithms for platforms with
millions of daily users
- Your background in machine learning enables you to make decisions on a product level
- Have consistently displayed ownership on data scientific problems.
You're not afraid to explore and are on top of the state of the art
technologies, always keeping track of the relevance from a business
perspective
- Have a solid understanding of statistical techniques and Business
Intelligence. You have the ability to empower teams to become more
data-driven by setting up experiments and creating dashboards
Bonus experience:
- An academic background with relevant research papers
- A community profile with blogging and/or speaking experience
- Familiarity within the publishing or games industry
Sounds good? Then press below to start! 🎮
Please provide your resume and other relevant documents.