Head of Product, Machine Learning Platform 953 views

It takes powerful technology to connect their brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help them achieve that. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind their massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help them process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on their business—and the world. Want in? As Verizon’s media unit, their brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we’re transforming media for tomorrow, too. They’re creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what’s next in content, advertising and technology.

The Machine Learning Platform team develops machine learning services, libraries and tools for massive datasets and streams powering learning and prediction across Oath. They are looking for Head of product to work with them to create novel machine learning platforms enabling efficient large-scale machine learning, and empowering data scientists and engineers to develop solutions easily and quickly, and collaborating with product groups on challenging, high-impact machine learning problems and use cases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product from roadmapping and prioritization to execution
• Shape the vision, mission and strategy of machine learning
• Provide thought leadership in the usage of machine learning
• Bring together the internal machine learning community
• Contribute to big data & machine learning open source projects
• Drive performance metrics and KPIs for the platform and its impact
• Explore emerging big data and machine learning software and solutions
• Identify trends, needs, opportunities and solutions in machine learning
• Guide customers from their apparent requirements to better ones
• Help the users to solve their machine learning problems

Requirements

• BSc, MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or comparable knowledge
• Prior strong expertise and experience in machine learning and data science preferred
• Proven track record in product management and leadership for technical platforms
• Strong analytics background with a bias toward using data to drive business decisions
• Excellent decision-making ability under pressure with tight timelines
• Strong product sense with an ability to envision technology solutions with market and user needs
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

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