Head of Data Science, Embeddings for AI Platform

Jobtome; Metuchen (NJ); On-site; USD 263,000 - 394,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science in a leadership role based in the United States. The team builds AI-native behavioral intelligence products and proprietary transformer models to power audiences, insights, and data licenses.

The leader will drive model development, establish evaluation standards, and coordinate with product, sales, and external partners to scope pilots and convert evaluations into contracts.

Qualifications

• Proven record leading data science for data, audience, identity, or measurement products in advertising
• Hands-on predictive modeling on consumer data at scale with multiple methods
• Strong grounding in measurement, incremental testing, and attribution concepts

Responsibilities

• Build predictive models behind the platform’s audiences and products, daily scoring across verticals
• Own the platform’s Feature Store and calibrate models with licensed data
• Lead custom and partner-specific audience modeling and clean-room workflows
• Design and defend measurement methodology with lift, test-and-holdout, and alignment to buyers
• Oversee identity, graph-based models, and viewing-state analytics for partners
• Set embedding roadmap, ensure production-grade evaluation and external collaboration
• Establish evaluation, MLOps, privacy, and responsible AI standards with legal input
• Lead a data science team, hire top talent, and foster rigorous experimentation

Skills

Leadership of data science teams

Predictive modeling at scale

Measurement & causal inference

Embedding/transformer models

MLOps governance

Privacy-preserving analytics

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or quantitative field

Master’s degree or PhD valued

Tools

Snowflake

LiveRamp

AWS

Databricks

Python

SQL

Spark

Job description

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science in a leadership role based in the United States. The team builds AI-native behavioral intelligence products and proprietary transformer models to power audiences, insights, and data licenses.

The leader will drive model development, establish evaluation standards, and coordinate with product, sales, and external partners to scope pilots and convert evaluations into contracts.