Data Scientist

SuperAwesome
London
3 days ago
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Our award-winning technology enables the youth digital media ecosystem. Used by hundreds of brands and content owners, SuperAwesome’s technology provides the tools for safe digital engagement with almost half a billion kids and teens every month.

We work with a huge variety of top brands and content owners including Warner Bros, EA, Hasbro, Nike and Netflix.

SuperAwesome is an award-winning technology company that powers the youth digital ecosystem, helping brands to meet their audience where they are.

We bring together proprietary advertising and gaming products, audience insights, and compliance capabilities to help build a safer internet for the next generation.

Our technology is trusted by hundreds of brands and creators and enables more effective digital engagement with almost half a billion young people worldwide every month.

As we specialise in reaching under-18 audiences, we have to be as curious, fast-paced, and creative as kids and teens. At SuperAwesome, you’ll be encouraged to own your impact, make your team more awesome, and evolve like a kid as you grow into your role.

At our core is the #SAFam, a community where every voice is valued and diversity is celebrated. We prioritise individuality and foster an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they truly belong.

What you'll do:

SuperAwesome helps brands connect with youth audiences with compliant, privacy preserving and age-appropriate digital campaigns.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to come and help us deliver original solutions to new problems by understanding the content youth audiences are engaging with and the brands that are reaching out to them. We combine this with knowledge from our behavioural insights team to predict and plan campaigns with impact.

Through ensuring best practice, privacy and moderated safe content we help fund and power a better internet for the next generation.

If you like collaborating on difficult problems with noisy, non linear data and you tick some of the boxes below, we would love to hear from you about what you are great at and what you are passionate about.

In this role, you will:

  • Work with the product team, end users and engineers to identify and understand the problems we need to solve

  • Work with other experts to identify feasible solutions to those problems that meet business needs

  • Develop production ready models in areas such as

    • Optimising programmatic auction bids

    • Understanding the content where adverts are being served

    • Moderating content to ensure it is safe for kids and teens

    • Categorising content so we analyse it quantitatively and infer our audiences

    • Predicting what categories will improve advertising performance or brand lift

    • Identifying audience clusters from survey and performance data

  • Test and validate the models and monitor and maintain them once live

Who you are:

Required

  • Experienced with Python

  • SQL - and query optimisation

  • Data manipulation eg Pandas, Numpy

  • Quantitative degree or equivalent experience

  • Standard ML algorithms eg Scikit-learn

  • Statistics

  • Curiosity

Nice to haves

  • Strong pure mathematics

  • Bayesian modeling

  • Causal inference

  • Post graduate degree

  • Interests in behaviour, psychology or advertising

  • Experience in adtech, martech, marketing or advertising

  • Experience with survey data or brand lift studies

  • Experience building models for internal or business facing products

  • Able to communicate what you are doing to a wide audience

  • Full ML model lifecycle experience

  • Programmatic use of LLMs

  • LLM fine tuning

  • Working with big data tools eg pySpark or similar

  • Github or similar version control

  • Jira or similar workflow management

  • Using Cloud platform ideally AWS

  • Clean modular code with tests

  • APIs eg FastAPI

  • MLOps experience

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