Data Scientist

Prodege • El Segundo, CA

12h • $150,000 - $180,000

About The Position

Strategic Imperative: The Data Scientist role with a focus on Predictive Modeling, is responsible for developing, evaluating, and refining analytical and machine learning models that predict user behavior and optimize business outcomes across our suite of products. This role focuses on modeling, feature development, and offline evaluation to support performance marketing, insights and other strategic initiatives. The position applies statistical and machine learning techniques to large-scale behavioral and transactional data to improve ranking, recommendation and yield optimization. While this role partners closely with Engineering and ML Engineering teams, it does not own production deployment, infrastructure, or MLOps. Prodege: A cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform, Prodege has charted a course of innovation in the evolving technology landscape by helping leading brands, marketers, and agencies uncover the answers to their business questions, acquire new customers, increase revenue, and drive brand loyalty & product adoption. Bolstered by a major investment by Great Hill Partners in Q4 2021 and strategic acquisitions of Pollfish, BitBurst & AdGate Media in 2022, Prodege looks forward to more growth and innovation to empower our partners to gather meaningful, rich insights and better market to their target audiences. As an organization, we go the extra mile to “Create Rewarding Moments” every day for our partners, consumers, and team. Come join us today! We are seeking candidates who reside in the continental US. Work Visa sponsorship is available for qualified candidates. Primary Objectives: Improve Yield Through Predictive Modeling: Drive yield optimization through the ideation and development of machine learning models for recommendations, ranking and yield optimization use cases Organizational Data Science Advancement: Expand the application of machine learning across business functions through identification of opportunities and modeling, analysis, and offline evaluation. Data Design: Leading feature engineering and defining key concepts to be formalized within the feature store. Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Detailed Job Duties: (typical monthly, weekly, daily tasks which support the primary objectives) Business Translation & Modeling Framework Design: Partner with Product and other business stakeholders to frame business problems into well-defined modeling objectives and hypotheses. Select appropriate modeling techniques (e.g., classification, regression, deep learning, reinforcement learning) based on use case and data characteristics. Define success metrics and evaluation criteria that align model performance with business impact. Document modeling assumptions, tradeoffs, and intended use to ensure clarity, transparency, and alignment across teams Data Analysis & Feature Development Perform analysis on large-scale behavioral and transactional datasets to identify patterns, drivers, and potential predictive signal Engineer features from user behavior, lifecycle activity, offer attributes, and revenue data to support modeling objectives Collaborate with ML team to ensure features properly registered within feature store Model Development & ML Collaboration: Leverage appropriate modeling frameworks and packages to build high performing predictive models Perform model tuning, validation, and comparison using appropriate metrics, cross-validation, and offline testing frameworks Interpret model outputs to assess business relevance, identify strengths and limitations, and validate against observed behavior Leverage appropriate frequentist and Bayesian approaches to measure model performance and define strategies for balancing exploration and exploitation Document modeling approaches, performance results, and learnings in model cards to support reuse, iteration, and long-term knowledge building Enable ML team to deploy models; collaborate on retraining and maintenance plans What does SUCCESS look like? Success in this role is demonstrated by the delivery of predictive models that materially improve yield management and optimizes engagement and revenue. Over time, success is reflected in models that are trusted by stakeholders, features that consistently capture meaningful behavioral signals, and clear evidence that model-driven decisions outperform prior approaches. Strong collaboration with Analytics Engineering and Machine Learning partners, thorough documentation of methods and learnings, and measurable business impact are hallmarks of high performance in this role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
• Three or more (3+) years experience performing deep data analysis and training machine learning models
• Strong foundation in machine learning and statistical modeling (classification, regression, ranking, optimization)
• Experience with ranking, recommendation systems, and personalization models
• Fluency in Python and common ML libraries (scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, PyTorch, or TensorFlow)
• Fluency in SQL and ability to work with large, event-level datasets in data warehouse environments (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Experience with feature engineering, model evaluation, and performance diagnostics
• Strong analytical reasoning and ability to translate business questions into modeling approaches
• Clear communication skills, particularly in explaining model results and tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of ML Ops concepts and the ability to collaborate effectively with ML Engineering and ML Ops teams
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proficiency in critical thinking and problem solving.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience managing ML deployments and designing feature stores and registries
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as LangChain, LLMs, and HuggingFace
• Worked with distributed data processing frameworks (Spark, Ray, Flink, Trino).
• Experience with ML experiment tracking (e.g., ML Flow)
• Experience in loyalty programs or performance marketing or market research
• Experience with contextual multi armed bandit algorithms or reinforcement learning
• Preference modeling methods used in Conjoint/MaxDiff
• Understanding of Bayesian statistics inference (e.g., PyMC)

Responsibilities

• Drive yield optimization through the ideation and development of machine learning models for recommendations, ranking and yield optimization use cases
• Expand the application of machine learning across business functions through identification of opportunities and modeling, analysis, and offline evaluation.
• Leading feature engineering and defining key concepts to be formalized within the feature store.
• Partner with Product and other business stakeholders to frame business problems into well-defined modeling objectives and hypotheses.
• Select appropriate modeling techniques (e.g., classification, regression, deep learning, reinforcement learning) based on use case and data characteristics.
• Define success metrics and evaluation criteria that align model performance with business impact.
• Document modeling assumptions, tradeoffs, and intended use to ensure clarity, transparency, and alignment across teams
• Perform analysis on large-scale behavioral and transactional datasets to identify patterns, drivers, and potential predictive signal
• Engineer features from user behavior, lifecycle activity, offer attributes, and revenue data to support modeling objectives
• Collaborate with ML team to ensure features properly registered within feature store
• Leverage appropriate modeling frameworks and packages to build high performing predictive models
• Perform model tuning, validation, and comparison using appropriate metrics, cross-validation, and offline testing frameworks
• Interpret model outputs to assess business relevance, identify strengths and limitations, and validate against observed behavior
• Leverage appropriate frequentist and Bayesian approaches to measure model performance and define strategies for balancing exploration and exploitation
• Document modeling approaches, performance results, and learnings in model cards to support reuse, iteration, and long-term knowledge building
• Enable ML team to deploy models; collaborate on retraining and maintenance plans

Benefits

• Prodege offers a comprehensive benefits package to US Full-time employees including medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD and basic life insurance.
• Employees receive flexible PTO, as well as paid sick leave prorated based on hire date.
• US Employees have eight paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Employees receive an option to purchase shares of Company stock commensurate with their position, which vests over four years.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level