Senior Data Scientist, Growth Analytics

Senior Data Scientist, Growth Analytics

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco's planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media and Streaming Monetization solutions enable retailers, marketplaces, and streaming platforms to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco: Growth Data Science is a global team of data scientists who work with internal and external stakeholders to improve the effectiveness of Moloco Ads and help advertisers achieve their business goals. As a Senior Data Scientist you will act as a leader within the team, working across a portfolio of top strategic advertisers and taking ownership of high impact product initiatives. This is a critical and highly cross-functional role with diverse responsibilities:

Advertiser engagement; engaging with advertisers to understand their business objectives, measurement strategies and identifying opportunities for Moloco to drive business value

Measurement consultation; consulting with advertisers on measurement methodologies, helping them to understand nuances between different measurement solutions (MMP attribution, incrementality, MMM) and supporting the activation of Moloco incrementality solutions

Insights generation; data collection, analysis and effective communication of learnings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholder up to C-Level

Campaign optimization; partnering with internal and external teams on analysis and testing to identify opportunities to improve Moloco campaign effectiveness

Product development; collaborating with key stakeholders across Moloco product and engineering teams to help improve our products and services based on market insights and advertiser feedback

Product activation; collaborating with Moloco business teams to develop activation strategies to unlock product performance and drive adoption across advertiser groups

Minimum Requirements:

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Statistics: must have knowledge and experience in experimental design, hypothesis testing, and various statistical analysis such as regression or time-series analysis.

Programming: experience in Python and SQL is required.

Comfortable balancing multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritizing work based on business needs.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to distill complex concepts and information into simple recommendations, presenting to stakeholders at various levels of seniority and technical expertise.

Experienced building partnerships with advertisers and business teams to grow an Ads business using data and analytics.

Proven ability to own projects end-to-end and operate in ambiguous problem spaces, able to develop creative solutions to complex problems.

Demonstrated leadership and self-direction.