Senior Machine Learning Manager - Ads Predictions

Apple • New York City, NY

74d

About The Position

At Apple, we strive every day to create products that enrich people's lives. Our Advertising Platforms group enables users worldwide to discover new content seamlessly while empowering publishers and developers to promote and monetize their work. Our technology powers advertising in the App Store and Apple News, delivering highly-performant, privacy-first solutions that set new industry standards. We're looking for an ambitious individual who can thrive in an Agile environment. You will drive strategic outcomes through substantial innovation programs across multiple fields by leading the development and application of advanced techniques and algorithms to improve our ad network. You have, or will develop a deep understanding of the ad network behavior, and will work with business and engineering leadership to develop and prioritize an innovation roadmap across multiple technical domains. You'll lead the function that conceives of, develops, and delivers state of the art capabilities that differentiate our products and are core to our business. We are looking for an exceptional hands-on machine learning (ML) manager who can thrive in a fast-paced environment. In this role you will oversee the strategy and development of our inference models to predict user interaction with our Ads. You'll work closely with Product Management partners to build a roadmap and lead teams to propose, design and analyze new algorithms; detect meaningful data patterns and signals while adhering to our strict privacy policies; measuring user, campaign and app performance; and finally analyzing the results of extremely large-scale experiments. Your ability to be a great teammate under tight deadline constraints is key to success.

Requirements

• 10+ years applying and leading teams that apply advanced statistical/ML methods and work with large, complex data sets.
• Experience developing and implementing ad algorithms, yield optimization solutions, and marketplace data analyses within an ad network.
• Excellent understanding of scalable architectures including operational concerns.
• PhD in AI/ML/Mathematics/CS or related field.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic outcomes through substantial innovation programs across multiple fields.
• Lead the development and application of advanced techniques and algorithms to improve the ad network.
• Develop and prioritize an innovation roadmap across multiple technical domains.
• Oversee the strategy and development of inference models to predict user interaction with ads.
• Work closely with Product Management partners to build a roadmap.
• Lead teams to propose, design, and analyze new algorithms.
• Detect meaningful data patterns and signals while adhering to privacy policies.
• Measure user, campaign, and app performance.
• Analyze the results of extremely large-scale experiments.
• Create models to understand user responses to ads.
• Work across several Engineering and Business teams to scale deliverables.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees