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Director, Data Science

Horizon Media

New York, NY
Full Time
Director
170k-200k
10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Night Market's, the commerce affiliate of Horizon Media, is a technology driven organization that helps advertisers gain a better understanding of the changing eCommerce landscape and ignite innovation around ways to plan, manage, and optimize eCommerce media, providing data-driven insights that inform brands' entire eCommerce strategy to drive desired business outcomes. Our end-to-end optimization platform, NEON, uses an ensemble of advanced models to provide macro and micro optimizations to holistically improve performance. This fulltime opportunity is for a talented data scientist to work on client-related services in the area of creative experience analytics, eventually transitioning these capabilities into the NEON product.

Key Responsibilities

  • Create and elevate current analytics methodology, build a replicable statistical framework within the constructs of a composable analytics framework and the NEON platform.
  • Model outputs and inputs, working with the Data Engineering team to assure data processes are automated and efficient.
  • Work alongside product leads, business leads, data scientists, data engineers, front-end developers, and designers.
  • Incorporate multiple 3rd party APIs & other datasets from different sources into custom-developed measurement and display systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to extract business insights from large datasets and use them to drive business change.
  • Mine, aggregate, and analyze data from databases to drive optimization and improvement.
  • Evaluate external AI solutions for their modeling and predictive strength to complement NEON features and use cases.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years experience in Machine Learning client analytics role.
  • Experience working with client services teams and communicating technical findings directly with client technical team members.
  • Domain expertise in creative analytics and creative and/or conversion rate optimization strategies.
  • Deep expertise in Python (and libraries), R, SQL.
  • Ability to operate in Snowflake, AWS infrastructure of S3/EC2, etc.
  • Proven experience to interact in a collaborative fashion with Product Management from analytic conceptualization through to production rollout.
  • Independently motivated to conceptualize and execute proactive client analysis.
  • Existing skill sets in machine learning, computer vision, and product development.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with clients.
  • Hold an undergraduate degree in math, statistics, computer science or other technical degree.
  • Keen attention to detail and data integrity.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with creative AI use cases such as creative trend projection, multivariate testing, image/video classification, custom audience segmentation, and predictive scoring.

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree in math, statistics, computer science or other technical degree.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive total rewards package including a discretionary bonus.
  • Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Company paid holidays and unlimited paid time off (PTO).
  • Mental health and wellness resources.
  • Pet insurance, childcare resources, identity theft insurance.
  • Fertility assistance programs, fitness reimbursement.

Working at Horizon Media

Horizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 14, 2025
Job CategoryData Science
Salary170k-200k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceDirector

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About Horizon Media

Website

horizonmedia.com

Location

New York, NY

Industry

All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

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