The Trade Desk · 1 day ago
Senior Data Scientist-Measurement
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$125K/yr - $229K/yr
4+ years expThe Trade Desk is a global technology company focused on creating a better, more open internet through intelligent advertising. The role of Senior Data Scientist involves researching and applying advanced modeling techniques to solve measurement problems in Advertising Technology, while actively collaborating with engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.
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Responsibilities
Explore, evaluate and deploy models to solve the problem of 'Are TTD ads driving incremental lift?'
Help to define and build methods to optimize towards causal effects
Explore data from various sources within TTD and prototype ETL pipelines to collect them for model training
Design and analyze experiments (e.g. A/B test) to validate model results
Work with cross-functional stakeholders to come up with the best implementation and testing plan
Communicate learnings from data and insights from models in compelling ways to influence product decisions
Qualification
Required
BS/MS with 4+ years or a PhD with 2+ years of experience working in a DS or ML role that involves bringing products from ideation to production
Experience in causal inference and lift measurement
Experience of designing experiments in a production environment
Proficient in Python
Hands-on experience building models at scale
A track record of owning a project end-to-end (from research to production), and partnership with a cross-functional team of data scientists, engineers and product managers to deliver advanced analytics or models
Possessing a keen sense of data intuition and the ability to innovate in the field of causal inference and/or machine learning
Proficient in open-source languages
Strong passion for enhancing and expanding technical skills
Deep understanding of the foundations of statistics and machine learning models
Ability to communicate with diverse stakeholders, making architecture recommendations, ensuring effective execution, and measuring quality of outcomes
Preferred
Experience in programmatic advertising is a plus
Experience running heavy workloads on a distributed computing cluster (especially EMR or Databricks), leveraging technologies like Spark to work with large datasets preferred
Achievements like first-author publications or project successes
Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Well-being benefits
Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
Parental leave
Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
Around 13 paid holidays per year
Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Competitive benefits package
Company
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$257.5MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementBridge BankHermes Growth Partners
2021-07-08Post Ipo Equity
2016-09-21IPO
2016-05-09Debt Financing· $125M
Leadership Team
Jeff Green
CEO
Mitch Waters
SVP - Southeast Asia, India, Australia & New Zealand
Recent News
2026-01-06
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