Dailymotion is the leading video discovery destination & technology that learns about your tastes over time, constantly surfacing the best, most relevant content on the web. Our mission is to provide the best video user experience for consumers on the market, connecting publishers and advertisers to engaged viewers who turn to dailymotion for their daily fix of the most compelling music, entertainment, news and sports content around.

Through partnerships with the world's leading publishers and content creators, including CBS, CNN, Fox Sports, GQ, Mashable, Universal Music Group, VICE and more, dailymotion commands 4 billion monthly pageviews across its mobile app, desktop and connected TV experiences. Dailymotion is owned by Vivendi, one of the largest mass-media corporations in the world.

As the Director of Data Science, Ad-Tech you will:

Focus on data science problems related to online advertising

Lead, hire, manage and mentor a global team of Data Scientists with Ad-Tech experience.
Working with fast-paced initiatives, overseeing projects from idea conception and strategy development to deployment, production, and operations.

Work across different verticals of behavioral science, NLP, and probabilistic scoring at scale and speed
Review, direct, guide the analytical work of entire team
Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of the data used for analysis
Selecting and engineering features to build and optimize prediction and classification systems
Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems

A Masters or PhD in computer science, statistics or a related field (Mathematics, Physics…)
Understanding of online advertising technologies and ecosystem (Ad-Tech Background)
Predictive modeling experience
Management experience
Excellent understanding and experience of machine learning techniques (eg k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Networks, etc.)
Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, NLP, Weka, NumPy, MatLab. 
Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language like Java, Scala, or Python
Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
Great business sense and communication skills
Proficiency in using query languages (SQL, Hive, Pig…) and in MySQL or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase)
Consultative nature, with a proven track record of using data to provide actionable business results

We offer great health / dental / vision insurance

401k (company Safe Harbor contribution) 

summer hours, paid vacation, sick time, paid holidays, company sponsored Training Opportunities (upon eligibility) and much more.