Apply on company website Chicago, IL (remote); Columbus, OH (remote); Detroit, MI (remote); Kansas City, KS (remote); Madison, WI (remote); Saint Louis, MO (remote) Remote (Global) Full-time USD 175,000 – 200,000 / year

Launch Potato is hiring a Staff Data Scientist, Marketing

Responsibilities

  • Own the full data science engine for a priority vertical, from business problem to deployed model to live ROAS performance, driving measurable revenue and media efficiency.
  • Frame the business problem directly with stakeholders, build and validate the model, hand the ML-engineering last mile to your ML engineering partner, and stay engaged through deployment, monitoring, and performance analysis.
  • Start focusing on Insurance and Advertiser Quality, with scope that broadens over time.
  • Primary metric is ROAS.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in digital marketing, performance marketing, or the leadgen industry
  • Building adtech algorithms and supporting user acquisition or paid media modeling (highly desired)
  • Strong modeling fundamentals: the ability to build effective models that drive business impact
  • Multi-year, hands-on experience building and deploying ML solutions in the AWS cloud
  • Hands-on experience across core technique areas: multi-armed bandit / reinforcement learning, recommendation and ranking systems (content-based, collaborative filtering, hybrid), funnel and monetization optimization, LTV modeling
  • Expert Python and SQL

Nice to Have

  • Sophisticated ML at companies where paid digital media is core to the business model
  • Creative embeddings work: incorporating embeddings of creatives, videos, headlines, and search into paid media models
  • Insurance domain experience
  • Creating state-of-the-art Ad Ranking algorithms
  • Modeling against ad-platform data points (Google, Meta, native)
  • LLMs / deep learning applied to personalization or content
  • Familiarity with Looker

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide) — South Florida, remote across 18 countries

Additional Information

  • Base salary is paid semi-monthly
  • Future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost of living adjustments
  • Compensation package includes base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits
Required Skills
Digital MarketingPerformance Marketing
Job Details
Location Chicago, IL (remote); Columbus, OH (remote); Detroit, MI (remote); Kansas City, KS (remote); Madison, WI (remote); Saint Louis, MO (remote)
Work mode Remote (Global)
Employment Full-time
Salary USD 175,000 – 200,000 / year
Category Data & ML
Posted 4 days ago
Application On company website
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Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company that reaches over 30M+ monthly visitors through brands such as FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState. As The Discovery and Conversion Company, their mission is to connect consumers with the world’s leading brands through data-driven content and technology.
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