Head of Data Science — Embeddings & Audience Modeling Leader

Jobtome; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 263,000 - 394,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science to lead the portfolio of predictive models for audiences, insights, and data licenses. You will own the embedding layer, coordinate with technology partners, and drive pilots, evaluations, and contracts with buyers.

You will build and lead a team of data scientists and ML engineers, set hiring priorities, and ensure rigorous experimentation and production deployment with revenue impact.

Qualifications

• Proven record leading data science for data, audience, identity, or measurement products.
• Hands-on predictive modeling on consumer-level data at scale.
• Strong grounding in measurement, causal inference, and incremental testing.
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving analytics and consent management.

Responsibilities

• Build and run predictive models for audience and data products.
• Own feature stores and named, typed, versioned features.
• Lead the embedding model roadmap and evaluation standards.
• Define and defend measurement methodology with rigorous validation.

Skills

Predictive modeling

Deep learning

Embeddings

Python

SQL

MLOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Stats/Math

Tools

Snowflake

LiveRamp

AWS

Databricks

Spark

Job description

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science to lead the portfolio of predictive models for audiences, insights, and data licenses. You will own the embedding layer, coordinate with technology partners, and drive pilots, evaluations, and contracts with buyers.

You will build and lead a team of data scientists and ML engineers, set hiring priorities, and ensure rigorous experimentation and production deployment with revenue impact.