Job Description
Our highly-skilled development team in Copenhagen is seeking a versatile Senior Data Scientist with a passion for formalism, heuristics and algorithms as well as an understanding of software engineering. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be a key player in a challenging and dynamic developmental story. We are passionate about new solutions, technologies and algorithms, but pragmatic in our choice of solutions. LiveIntent Copenhagen is responsible for the development and deployment of the company's next generation technology in close collaboration with the company's other departments in New York and Berlin.
Our team in Copenhagen consists of a couple of hand picked veterans from the start-up environment as well as 30 handpicked highly competent and focused colleagues who have joined since the end of 2016. Both the level of competence and focus is therefore very high and for that reason, many exciting tasks are constantly flowing from the rest of the organization to Copenhagen. We want to expand the team with more skilled and innovative talents and we are looking for both Data Scientists and Data Engineers, but prefer people with an interest in both areas of work.
About the Job:
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist for LiveIntent Copenhagen, who can analyze issues based on data, and design, develop and maintain algorithms, reports and software solutions for LiveIntent. This person will largely be able to plan, choose and organize their own tasks, but will also be expected to work closely with the other team developers and stakeholders in the company's international product division. The Senior Data Scientist will be part of all stages of development, from initial sparring and exchange of ideas to prototyping, development, testing, deployment, maintenance / improvement and reporting, but with the expected focus on the first three parts. We believe in flexibility under responsibility, and our development process is therefore a loosely defined hybrid of agile methods and rapid prototyping. Our Ideal Candidate:
- Has experience with data analysis and software development from other positions.
- Is interested in translating real world issues into mathematical models, mathematical statistics and algorithms.
- Ideally also has an interest in programming (in several languages), in machine learning and / or adtech technology.
- Has one of the heavier mathematical educations such as computer science, mathematics or physics.
- Has several years of practical experience with real programming, practical and / or deep theoretical understanding of some of the following: Classical statistics (hypothesis tests, confidence intervals), Data mining, ETL processing, machine Learning, Probabilistic graphical models (eg Markov logic networks or Bayesian networks), Data Processing in MapReduce using Hadoop / Cascading / Scalding, Programming in Scala, Python programming, Data reporting and ad hoc analysis in Athena, Google BigQuery or the "PyLab" suite.
- Has experience mentoring and guiding other team members in a previous role.
Our ideal candidate attacks problems analytically and solutions pragmatically. This person is full of good ideas, able to see opportunities in other people's ideas, and can find out about ideas in a distanced and constructive way. They love thinking about many issues and connecting them with data. Our ideal Senior Data Scientist candidate understands that finding new facets of data is more important than adjusting meta parameters to algorithms. They are happy to implement and optimize and are curious about new tasks.
We're looking for someone who will be excited to understand and involve themselves in the company's problem areas and can communicate in English with management and colleagues at the other LiveIntent offices. This person will be immersed in a dynamic environment where overall priorities and definitions will change over time, and therefore tasks will not always be prioritized. This person will work independently and take initiative.
The Company:
LiveIntent, one of the world’s largest people-based marketing platforms, connects 2,500 publishing and advertising brands with over 250 MM verified people every month across all types of media. With the hashed email address at the center of its industry-leading identity graph, LiveIntent provides brands with solutions that help them monetize, acquire, and retain real people, even where cookies don’t work. LiveIntent enriches a brand’s data, making it possible for them to deepen their understanding of their audiences, and more effectively market to people wherever they are present and paying attention. LiveIntent has offices located in New York, Berlin, and Copenhagen.
LiveIntent Copenhagen started as a Danish startup company in 2013 and was acquired by LiveIntent in November 2015. We develop and operate both an online, real-time service that receives billions of requests from all over the world and from other LiveIntent components, and an offline, batch-oriented analytical data processing pipeline that prepares data for the online service by processing billions of data points.
We Offer:
You can look forward to being a key player in a challenging and dynamic developmental story where you will be part of a team with some of the industry's hottest talents. There will be rich opportunities to both learn from and mentor others, and you will have the flexibility to dive into experiments on your own. We are passionate about new solutions, technologies and algorithms, but pragmatic in our choice of solutions.
We believe in freedom and flexibility under responsibility so that office hours can be adapted to your life as long as meetings are covered. If you need to work from home one day, it is completely fine, as long as you live up to what is expected. We are an international company, so while this position is located in our Copenagen office, there is frequent collaboration between the teams in Berlin and New York City.
Does that sound exciting? If so, send us an application! We are a small office with a social atmosphere so your personal profile is just as valuable to us as your technical skills. A cover letter will therefore be greatly appreciated.