Data Science Manager - TikTok Ads

Description

About The TikTok Monetization Product Data Science Team
We're the TikTok Monetization Products data science team, who enables and champions data driven decision making. Our Vision is to become the world class data science team, where data is used rigorously to drive all decision making. Our Mission is to drive monetization and sustainable revenue growth for TikTok through data science.

Responsibilities:
1. Work with large, complex data sets. Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced analytical methods as needed. Conduct analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables, and presentations.
2. Build and manage high performance, responsive team of data scientists and analysts that are able to not only keep up with but also pioneer in this space
3. Build and prototype analysis pipelines for the team to provide insights at scale
4. Develop comprehensive knowledge of TikTok data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development
5. Develop deep partnerships with engineer and product teams to deliver on major cross-functional measurements, testing, and modeling efforts
6. Partner with Data Engineering to ensure the data accuracy and consistency

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
1. MS or PhD in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, etc.
2. Years of experience in data science, algorithmic engineering, or machine learning
3. Many years of experience in managing and mentoring data science, data engineering, and analytics teams in a technology company
4. Experience with statistical software (e.g. R, Python, MATLAB) and database languages (e.g. SQL)
5. Experience building data science models (Regression, Decision Trees, K-Means, etc.)
6. Experience with large data sets and analytical tools, e.g. Hive, Spark

Preferred Qualifications
1. Demonstrated leadership and self-direction. Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
2. Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem.