Senior Data Scientist – Ads Insights & Forecasting

Apple Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is hiring Data Scientists across Apple Ads to tackle high-impact problems that influence product strategy, advertiser outcomes, and marketplace health across Apple Services. You will design experiments, build forecasting and optimization models, and translate insights into actions for leadership.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, Marketplace, and Leadership teams to drive measurable business impact while advancing analytical rigor and continuous learning within a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in Data Science, Analytics, Machine Learning, Quantitative Research, Business Analytics, or a related field
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale, complex datasets
• Strong Python programming skills and experience with common analytical libraries, including an understanding of code structure, testing, reproducibility, and scalable analytical workflows
• Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, causal inference, and analytical problem solving
• Experience developing statistical, machine learning, econometric, forecasting, or optimization models to solve business problems
• Experience translating analytical findings into business recommendations
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Responsibilities

• Analyze large-scale datasets to identify opportunities, explain business outcomes, and influence decisions
• Design and evaluate experiments to understand the impact of products, features, and marketplace changes
• Develop statistical, machine learning, forecasting, optimization, or econometric models to solve business problems
• Define metrics and measurement frameworks that improve visibility into product and business performance
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, Marketplace, and Leadership teams
• Communicate analytical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches
• Influence product, business, and strategic decisions through data-driven insights and recommendations
• Contribute to a culture of analytical rigor, experimentation, and continuous learning

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistics

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science

Masters or PhD in a related field

Tools

Spark

Pandas

TensorFlow

Job description

Apple is hiring Data Scientists across Apple Ads to tackle high-impact problems that influence product strategy, advertiser outcomes, and marketplace health across Apple Services. You will design experiments, build forecasting and optimization models, and translate insights into actions for leadership.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, Marketplace, and Leadership teams to drive measurable business impact while advancing analytical rigor and continuous learning within a