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Lead Data Scientist, AdTech

Launch Potato

United States (remote) · Remote · Senior

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What this role is

This role leads the data science strategy for a performance marketing company's insurance vertical, building ML models that optimize customer acquisition costs and ad efficiency. It suits experienced data scientists who thrive owning problems end-to-end, from defining business metrics through deploying live models, and who want to see their work directly impact revenue.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 5+ years hands-on data science delivering measurable business impact
  • Proven experience in digital marketing, performance marketing, or leadgen
  • Building adtech algorithms for user acquisition or paid media modeling
  • Strong modeling fundamentals driving business impact
  • Multi-year experience building and deploying ML solutions in AWS
  • Multi-armed bandit and reinforcement learning
  • Recommendation and ranking systems
  • Funnel and monetization optimization
  • LTV modeling
  • Expert Python and SQL

Nice to have

  • Sophisticated ML experience at companies where paid digital media is core
  • Creative embeddings work in paid media models
  • Insurance domain experience
  • State-of-the-art ad ranking algorithms
  • Modeling against ad-platform data (Google, Meta, native)
  • LLMs or deep learning applied to personalization or content
  • Familiarity with Looker

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