Senior Applied Scientist - AdTech & Media Bidding (Remote)

Launch Potato; Jersey City (NJ); Remote; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Launch Potato in the United States is seeking a hands-on data scientist to build models that decide which carrier shoppers see on our click wall, with the goal of maximizing conversions and ROAS. You will own data collection, model development, and production deployment with an ML engineer supporting the production side.

We are a remote-first company with East Coast hours. By day 60 you will run our insurance marketplace media buying on your own; by year one you will deliver carrier matching,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on applied data science with measurable business impact.
• Your models drove paid media decisions: spend, bidding or ad serving. Attribution and reporting alone don't qualify.
• You built what's on your resume and can explain it down to the loss function and architecture choice, neural network fundamentals included
• You see how today's bids shape tomorrow's training data, and you've handled late labels, sparse features or drift
• You own models end to end: you find your own data, build through deployment and monitoring, and bring a point of view
• Expert Python and SQL

Responsibilities

• Build models that decide which carrier each insurance shopper sees on our click wall.
• Own the data pipelines and production models behind media spend and ROAS.
• Deploy and monitor models; collaborate with ML engineer on production.
• Address data challenges like sparse sessions, drift, and late labels.
• Expand modeling work to other verticals over time.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data science

Tools

AWS

SageMaker

ECS

S3

Athena

Job description

Launch Potato in the United States is seeking a hands-on data scientist to build models that decide which carrier shoppers see on our click wall, with the goal of maximizing conversions and ROAS. You will own data collection, model development, and production deployment with an ML engineer supporting the production side.

We are a remote-first company with East Coast hours. By day 60 you will run our insurance marketplace media buying on your own; by year one you will deliver carrier matching,