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Aarki is an AI company dedicated to developing advertising solutions that drive mobile revenue growth. Utilizing AI technology, we identify audiences in a privacy-first environment by analyzing trillions of contextual bidding signals alongside our proprietary behavioral models. Our comprehensive audience engagement platform consists of a full-service agency team and a Unified Creative Strategy that offers ad creative ideation and execution services. With a history of working with numerous advertisers over 14 years, we process 5 million mobile ad requests per second from over 10 billion devices, effectively enhancing performance for publishers and brands. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, we also maintain offices in the United States, EMEA, and APAC. We are currently looking for a dynamic and detail-oriented Senior Manager of Applied Data Science to join our team. As a Senior Manager, you will lead a team responsible for creating and implementing machine learning models and data pipelines to optimize our programmatic demand-side platform (DSP). Collaborating closely with decision science, engineering, and analytics teams, you will drive impactful data science projects and contribute to innovative solutions. Join us in our mission to push the boundaries of AI and mobile advertising within a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and growth. At Aarki, we offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and substantial opportunities for career advancement. Responsibilities include: - Building, nurturing, and mentoring a high-performing data science team, emphasizing technical growth and long-term career development. - Spearheading the development of scalable machine learning pipelines tailored for programmatic mobile advertising. - Establishing best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and performance assessment. - Taking ownership of process enhancements throughout the ML lifecycle. - Promoting collaboration with teams in Bangalore and San Francisco, including decision science and bidder engineering, to deploy models into production and conduct experiments. - Ensuring timely project deliveries and swift resolution of model-related issues in production environments. - Designing and managing data pipelines to facilitate the efficient processing of large-scale datasets for training and evaluation. - Collaborating with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to seamlessly integrate models into production systems. - Staying abreast of advancements in machine learning and applying cutting-edge techniques to enhance platform capabilities. - Driving innovation by exploring and adopting new methodologies, tools, and technologies. The ideal candidate possesses: - Over 7 years of hands-on experience in data science, with a solid background in machine learning, statistics, and modeling. - More than 3 years of experience in managing teams of data scientists or ML engineers. - Proficiency in Python and SQL, with familiarity in Spark being advantageous. - Expertise in ML libraries like Scikit-Learn, LightGBM, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. - Profound understanding of probability, statistical analysis, and experimental design. - Demonstrated expertise in deploying ML models into production and ensuring continuous model observability. - Exceptional communication skills enabling the effective explanation of complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Knowledge of RTB, auction theory, and high-throughput low-latency environments is a plus.,
