Sr. Statistician - Doubleclick (New York, NY)
DoubleClick develops the tools that advertisers, direct marketers and web publishers use to plan, execute and analyze marketing programs.
Our focus on innovation, reliability and insight enables clients to improve productivity and results.
DoubleClick’s Technology Organization is comprised of over 300 IT professionals, located in New York, Colorado, Chicago, San Francisco and Europe. We pride ourselves in hiring energetic and innovative professionals who enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies and pushing those technologies to the limits. Moreover, DoubleClick utilizes the Agile Methodology (SCRUM) for Software Development.
Currently DoubleClick serves over 100,000 Ads per second and handles a staggering 8 billion transactions on a daily basis.
Responsibilities:
- Understand business requirements for optimization solutions and perform applied research that will support these requirements.
- Develop statistical and optimization algorithms and follow the algorithms through the entire software lifecycle: design, implementation, quality assurance, distribution.
- Ability to conduct research independently or as part of a team: concept formulation, definition of metrics, determination of appropriate methodology, performance evaluation, and final research report. Research must be timely and reproducible.
- Present statistical concepts and results of research to the broader business team
- Understand all statistical/mathematical aspects of optimized ad delivery (i.e. DoubleClick’s DART product) – including business purpose and deep system knowledge of DART
- Work with client data to analyze performance and optimization issues.
- Evangelize statistical/optimization methods to other areas of the business.
Skills:
- Knowledge and experience with statistical methods (regression & classification methods, discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, anova, time series, sampling, inferences, etc.)
- Knowledge and experience with Optimization algorithms: Linear Programming, Quadratic programming, dynamic programming, simulation, etc.
- Familiarity with machine learning / statistical learning theory: supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning. Model building – model assessment and selection, bias vs. variance tradeoff.
- Programming skills: competency in several of the following: perl, java, C/C++, SQL, R/S-plus, SAS, shell scripting
- Experience with UNIX/Linux
- Experience in working with a large, enterprise computing system.
- Experience working with massive (10^9) datasets.
- Ability to assess business environment for additional opportunities
- Excellent project management skills
- Ability to work independently
- Proactive
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Excellent oral & written communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent consulting skills
- Ability to establish key relationships with the business team and the engineering team
Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in a statistical/quantitative field, required.
- Five years experience in a statistical/quantitative field, required
- Three years experience conducting original research, required
- Three years experience working with external clients in a business environment, required
- Ability to travel up to twice a quarter, required
- Knowledge of Digital Advertising desired.
If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please email me a Word-formatted version of your resume at Ymuncherji@DoubleClick.net ; even if we have spoken recently about a different position. Please include salary history and a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.
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