Brief Description of position:
ABOUT MiQ
“We’re MiQ, a programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. We connect data from multiple sources to do interesting, exciting, business-problem-solving things for our clients. We are experts in data science, analytics and programmatic trading and we are always ready to react and solve challenges quickly, to make sure you’re always spending your media investments on the right things in the right places.”
We’re one of the most innovative, exciting programmatic companies in the industry.
MiQ is a place that puts sustainable business growth at its heart. A place where you’ll get support putting your best ideas into practice. A place where you can feel secure, where you can learn and be challenged, and where you can succeed whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whatever makes you different.
Our talent agenda is focused on attracting, developing, and engaging with our people.
SECTION 1 - WHAT WE VALUE AT MiQ
- PASSION - We love and live what we do
- DETERMINATION - We always find a way to “figure it out”
- UNITY - We back each other and challenge one another
- AGILITY - We anticipate the unexpected, embrace and adapt to change
- COURAGE - We dare to think unconventionally You can find out more about
SECTION 2
Job title - Sr. Data Scientist
Reports to – Team Lead
Role Type - Individual Contributor
Key relationships -
- Internal: leads of various teams (Solutions, analysts, engineering, product)
- External: customers
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Key Responsibilities
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Success Indicators/Outcomes
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Skills
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- Experienced coder in Python/R
- Strong understanding of ML algos and applications
- Experienced in SQL and good hands on Excel
- Experience working in cloud environments preferably AWS. Ability to write and productionize data pipelines and ML models in a cloud based environment
- Experience with working at scale using (Pyspark/Rspark)
- Strong hands on experience of applying ML techniques to business problems. Should have a good understanding of statistics.
- Good measurement mindframe for measuring impact of ML models
- 4+ years of experience in applying machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, and data mining algorithms to prediction problems
- Maintaining code versions and experience working in an agile mode
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Delivery
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- Accountable for end to end project delivery. Able to independently own and pitch/execute new analytics capabilities. Have a continuous communication with Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering on accounts, deliverable timelines and progress of tasks.
- Seeking opportunities for understanding client’s challenges and actively pitching custom or existing data science capabilities having business impact
- Good verbal and written communication & data presentation skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- Ability to provide recommendations and actionable outcomes from the outputs generated, and create a narrative to be shared with the market. Should be able to visualize the outputs easily understood by stakeholders and stitch a story linking to other media aspects being presented
- Drive growth of generalised capabilities over MiQ’s or open source data sources. Able to identify, infer and evaluate capabilities to enhance current solutions or create new ones
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Strategy
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- Scale strategic accounts by improving over existing solutions or able to build over existing capabilities
- Drive new initiatives for operational excellence within the team within data science, coding, product and tech
- Working with local leads to align to respective regional strategies. Identify opportunities and provide updates on teams capabilities and support on account where needed
- Working with other DS teams/Product Managers and understanding and able to suggest feature enhancements within various MiQ products based on market requirements
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Innovate
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- Able to generalize capabilities and workflows increasing team’s efficiency
- Initiatives to research and come up with new ideas to experiment and leading up to new capabilities creating business impact
- Research new developments across data science and educate team members by trying new POCs
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Lead & Guide
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- Should be able to mentor and guide new hires or interns
- Active participation in recruitment, designing and managing assignments and interviews
- Committed to delivers the best towards organization's goals and values
- Provide constructive feedback to counterparts and work on received feedback
- Drive brainstorming sessions/ Hackathons/sharing best cases within the team or externally
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SECTION 4
Qualifications & Experience
Skills -
⮚ Must Have
- Strong coding experience in R/python. Should be able to execute independently at scale
- Good communication skills to be able to translate data science solutions to clients and internal stakeholders
- Strong hands on experience of applying ML techniques to business problems. Should have a good understanding of statistics
- Sense of ownership and accountability
- Experience building data pipelines and deploying model in cloud environment
- A critical thinker. Should be able to identify business problems and provide expertise on approaching the solutions
- Should be able to independently pitch new solutions catering to clients specific asks
- Should be able to mentor and guide other members
⮚ Good to Have
- Experience within programmatic marketing domain
- Experience in building Market Mix Models, Attribution, Churn, Customer behavioral predictions, recommendation engines
- Experience designing data products and integrations
- Prior experience in writing and publishing data science papers
- Stakeholder Management
- Tableau knowledge