Staff Data Scientist, Product Analytics - Creatives

Moloco•Seattle, WA

16h•Remote

About The Position

Moloco is seeking a Staff Data Scientist, Product Analytics - Creatives to join their team. This role is critical to ensuring that Moloco’s creative systems become a long-term competitive advantage. The individual will be recognized as a thought leader in the creative domain, influencing product decisions and establishing a trusted framework for measuring creative impact. They will also build durable monitoring, diagnostics, and documentation to increase transparency in creative performance and adoption, reducing ad-hoc fire drills. This is a co-owner role of the creative roadmap, not a support role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience (or PhD + 6 YoE) in data science, product analytics, or a closely related quantitative field, including significant time as a product-facing IC.
Proven track record of partnering with Product and Engineering to shape roadmaps, define success metrics, and drive decisions through data.
Demonstrated ability to operate with high ownership and autonomy, including scoping ambiguous problems and driving them to closure.
Comfort working across time zones and with distributed teams, using strong async communication and documentation habits.

Nice To Haves

Graduate or PhD degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of experience in related fields.
Prior experience in ad tech, marketing science, or related domains where creatives, auctions, or optimization systems are central to performance.
Hands-on experience with creative analytics (e.g., format benchmarking, asset-level performance analysis, interaction or engagement modeling).
Experience collaborating closely with ML teams to design, evaluate, and iterate on model features and policies.
Excellent communication skills: ability to synthesize complex analytical findings into simple, actionable narratives for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

Be recognized as a thought leader in the creative domain, someone whose perspective is actively sought when making high-stakes product calls. For example, influence which creative problems we choose to solve, not just how we measure the outcomes.
Establish a trusted, repeatable framework for measuring creative impact that the organization rallies around. This will enable PM/ENG to ship creative features faster and with more confidence, backed by well-designed experiments and clear success criteria.
Reduce ad-hoc fire drills by building durable monitoring, diagnostics, and documentation that make creative performance and adoption more transparent.