Digital Turbine
Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine is a mobile growth platform serving app developers, brands, mobile carriers, and device manufacturers. Its business-to-business software and advertising products support user acquisition, audience engagement, app distribution, and mobile monetization across the ecosystem.

The company’s portfolio includes DT Ignite, DT Reach, DT Exchange/DT FairBid, and Offer Wall, covering on-device distribution, creative advertising formats, programmatic marketplace demand, mediation, and monetization. Digital Turbine operates across marketing, SaaS, and telecommunications, with teams developing technology for mobile publishers, advertisers, and telecom partners.

Lead Data Scientist - Mobile Advertising (Hybrid, New York)

Lead data science strategy for Digital Turbine’s mobile advertising marketplace, covering machine learning, experimentation, attribution, and optimization. Act as a technical authority while partnering with product, engineering, and executive teams.

Description

  • Turn complex, ambiguous business problems into multi-quarter data science roadmaps
  • Set the methodology, design, and standards for the centralized experimentation framework
  • Own technical guidance on causal inference, A/B testing, and hypothesis validation
  • Design and oversee production statistical and machine learning models for bid and user-acquisition optimization, audience segmentation, lifetime value, and multi-touch attribution
  • Lead time-series forecasting and real-time event-processing strategies
  • Work with ML Infrastructure and Data Engineering leaders on model deployment, monitoring, and integration
  • Mentor senior and mid-level data scientists
  • Define coding and methodological standards while promoting evidence-based decision-making
  • Present technical findings as strategic narratives for executive stakeholders
  • Shape product strategy and commercial investment decisions

Requirements

  • At least eight years of progressive experience in data science, quantitative analysis, or machine learning
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in AdTech, two-sided marketplaces, or consumer-scale data platforms
  • Advanced expertise in statistical modeling, causal inference, experimental design, and machine learning architecture
  • Deep knowledge of regression, classification, time-series analysis, clustering, and deep learning
  • Expert proficiency in Python or R and SQL
  • Experience working with petabyte-scale data in cloud environments such as Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, AWS, or GCP
  • Ability to build scalable tools, reusable metrics frameworks, and automated modeling pipelines
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder-alignment skills across matrixed product, engineering, and business teams
  • A master’s or Ph.D. in a quantitative discipline is preferred but not required
  • Must be local to the job’s posting location

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Performance-based bonus
  • Comprehensive benefits package

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