Head of Data Science — AI-Driven Behavioral Embeddings

Jobtome; Fort Gregg-Adams (VA); On-site; USD 263,000 - 394,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science to lead a high-performance team building a transformer-based behavioral embedding model powering audience, insights, and measurement products. You will own the model's direction, establish evaluation standards, and collaborate with product, sales, and external partners to pilot and convert evaluations into contracts.

The role emphasizes scalable predictive modeling, MLOps, and responsible AI, with senior accountability for performance lift, calibration,

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of data science teams delivering audience/identity products.
• Hands-on predictive modeling on consumer-level data at scale.
• Strong ability to design evaluation, measurement, and calibration.
• Experience with identity graphs, clean rooms, and data collaboration.
• Proven track record of production ML, feature stores, and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build predictive models for audience and data products across verticals.
• Own segment definitions, coverage, and accuracy for platform audiences.
• Lead the platform's feature store as a commercial product.
• Define evaluation and responsible AI standards for shipped models.
• Direct roadmap for transformer-based embedding model with external partners.
• Lead a data science team and recruit senior talent; foster production deployment.

Skills

Data leadership

Predictive modeling

Measurement & causal inference

Embeddings/transformers

ML lifecycle in production

Cloud platforms

Python

SQL

Privacy & ethics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative field

Master's degree or PhD in Statistics, ML, Econometrics, OR, or related quantitative discipline

Tools

Snowflake

LiveRamp

AWS

Databricks

Spark

Job description

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science to lead a high-performance team building a transformer-based behavioral embedding model powering audience, insights, and measurement products. You will own the model's direction, establish evaluation standards, and collaborate with product, sales, and external partners to pilot and convert evaluations into contracts.

The role emphasizes scalable predictive modeling, MLOps, and responsible AI, with senior accountability for performance lift, calibration,