Head of Data Science

VigLink technology instantly and automatically captures the value of content that drives commerce. We monetize ordinary links to over 40,000 retailers, whether they're created by you or us. Our technology works across sites, apps, and social networks so you can focus on your business, earn more, and avoid the hassle of managing countless affiliate programs.

VigLink is looking for a Head of Data Science with strong NLP, Machine Learning and Leadership experience. We are looking for folks who enjoy working on a variety of different types of analyses, ranging from ad-hoc "data wrangling" tasks through the creation of full-blown programs to calculate business-critical, customer-visible values on an ongoing basis, enjoy thinking through a data problem, understanding the customer needs associated with it, and working on your own and with other developers to create a pragmatic solution. You should be proficient in utilizing Hadoop, Spark, Hive and/or SQL, and have experience creating production-quality code in Python, R, Scala, Java or other languages.

As the Head of Data Science, you will serve as the technical and scientific leader for NLP and Machine Learning, and advance Viglink’s industry leadership in utilizing these for solving challenging problems. **Feature Extraction and Context / Product Inference** * Identify the commercial context of publisher content, identify the relevance of commercial links to that content, and match relevant destinations to appropriate products / services available across the web **Large-Data Analytics and Audience Profiling** * Develop automated insights that help publishers improve their performance by developing a better understanding of their audiences based on billions of impressions and tens of millions of clicks per week. Do this for thousands of publishers in a scalable and relevant way. **Product Clustering and Audience Profiling** * Recognize identical products from different merchants’ offer feeds and commercial links to power the Product API and attach commercial meta-data to various events and audience profiles. **Statistical Modeling and Prediction of Earnings** * Model the performance of our existing publishers and merchants to predict future performance at high granularity. **Destination Optimization** * Select the most appropriate destination for a commercial link, based on what is best for the viewer and the publisher. Balance estimated publisher earnings (based on earnings per click, location, device type, etc) with viewer relevance and good viewer experience. **Leadership** * Partner with executive team in contributing to the strategic direction of our internal products, building a roadmap for Data Science team and collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn ideas into research and products. In addition, we expect you to stay current, publish, present, and contribute as a thought leader in the field of NLP and Machine Learning

* MS degree in Computer Science or Statistics, with a strong academic record and emphasis in NLP, machine learning and data mining (Phd preferred) * At least 3 years of experience in utilizing NLP and Machine Learning in a professional environment in the field of search, e-commerce, digital advertising or marketing, web-analytics or cloud computing space * At least 7 years of experience in relevant analytics tasks with Strong Python, R, Matlab, or related language, experience with Java, or a JVM based language like Scala will be a huge plus; * Experience with Linux/Unix—you are comfortable on the command line * Experience with Large scale datasets, MapReduce architectures, and Big Data techniques such as Spark, Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Hbase; * Capacious curiosity for data and algorithms, and how to apply them to create insight.