Head of Data Science: Embeddings & Platform Leader

Jobtome; Park Ridge (IL); On-site; USD 263,000 - 394,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science to build and lead the team behind a transformer-based behavioral embedding platform powering audiences, insights, and licenses. You will define measurement standards, scale predictive models, and guide commercial implementation with product and sales teams.

You will own the embedding roadmap, partner with technology, ensure responsible AI, and drive pilots to contracts while delivering measurable lift across multiple verticals.

Qualifications

• Proven record leading data science for data, audience, identity, targeting, or measurement products in advertising/marketing
• Deep hands-on predictive modeling on consumer-level data at scale
• Strong grounding in measurement and causal inference including incrementality testing
• Knowledge of identity graphs, clean rooms, and data collaboration
• Lifecycle experience from feature engineering to deployment and monitoring
• Ability to explain methodology to executives and buyers
• Track record of building high-performing data science teams

Responsibilities

• Build and run predictive models for audiences and data products.
• Own the platform’s Feature Store as a commercial product.
• Lead modeling for custom and partner-specific audiences.
• Design and defend platform measurement methodology against scrutiny.
• Lead identity and viewing-products modeling and calibration methods.
• Direct roadmap for the embedding model and its evaluation standards.
• Establish MLOps, evaluation, and privacy standards for deployed models.
• Manage a team of data scientists, ML engineers, and measurement scientists.

Skills

Data science leadership

Predictive modeling

Measurement & causal inference

Python

SQL

Distributed data processing

Deep learning / embeddings

Communication with executives

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Math/Economics or related field

Tools

Python

SQL

Spark

Snowflake/AWS/Databricks

Job description

Spectrum is seeking a Head of Data Science to build and lead the team behind a transformer-based behavioral embedding platform powering audiences, insights, and licenses. You will define measurement standards, scale predictive models, and guide commercial implementation with product and sales teams.

You will own the embedding roadmap, partner with technology, ensure responsible AI, and drive pilots to contracts while delivering measurable lift across multiple verticals.