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Job Summary
The Strategic Research team within the Nielsen One Data Science organization focuses on expanding and enhancing Nielsen’s digital measurement and optimization products. This branch of the team supports Nielsen ONE Content and Digital in TV Ratings, which provides cross platform deduplication across programs and content distributors and linear TV digital audio measurement, respectively.
The Lead Data Scientist role provides an opportunity to drive methodological innovation in the exciting and fast changing world of media measurement. This position will develop new methodologies and improve existing ones to most optimally measure audiences across TV and/or Digital platforms. This is an ideal position for an experienced researcher to hone their technical leadership skills through the design, creation, and deployment of cutting edge methodologies in audience measurement
In this role, you will work closely with other members of the team to optimize the current codebase, create simulation environments and pipelines, and conduct research that will enhance the utility of our data. In addition, you will have the opportunity to grow your data science skills (coding, statistics) through all aspects of the data science workflow and data product lifecycle. Responsibilities may include the following: methodology development, analysis, model building, automation, creation of robust/scalable code packages, technical oversight, and mentoring.
