Engineering Lead Manager Data Science

We shaped the earliest forms of ad tech and were looking for the technical expertise to help shape its future. Our customers have unique problems that can only be solved at internet scale and thats where the technical skills of our team make a real difference.

Our exchange handles over 500 billion requests every day (for comparison Google serves an estimated 9 billion searches a day) all running in our own global data centers. Every member of our technology team has an enormous amount of autonomy in building and managing our systems to support and enable our growing level of scale. Through the transparency of our technology dedication to innovation and integrity and longstanding customer relationships we lead through change.

Whats it like to work at Index

We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers.

Index is an exciting and fastpaced place to work. Were built on our values of change support learning and teaching trust and intention. We pride ourselves on our independence and openness not only in our technology but in our teams too. Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.

Our culture of success is truly supportive and collaborative. In working together across our teams were continually investing in the people and technology to solve the industrys most complex problems. As we extend the promise of ad tech to every channel were looking for talented engineers to help advance Index and the industry forward.

Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution

Index Exchange funds the open web. Content and journalism across the internet are funded through advertising and we are the engine that helps to make that happen transparently safely and efficiently. Handling hundreds of billions of auctions per day within milliseconds requires an intense understanding of the exchange and the ecosystem that we live in.

Our business is growing significantly every year and is poised to grow even faster. Our people and our platforms are the foundation and enabler of that growth. We are significantly expanding our technology teams and are looking for technologists with a passion for high performance software development and a drive to deliver software products and platforms that enable and empower industries at a global scale.

About The Role:

Were looking for a Engineering Lead Manager Data Science to support our Machine Learning and Optimization organization with ownership over the research development and production of our ML and data science algorithms and usage of our data pipelines. Our systems process over 450 billion auction events.

This position reports directly to the VP Machine Learningbased in Berlinand will work closely with members of the across our engineering and product teams.

Indexs scale spans the globe our transactions happen 24x7 in our global data centers and every second that passes millions of requests are evaluated across our exchange. In order to achieve our mission global efficiency and reliability are absolutely key as every millisecond quite literally counts in our business.

Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution

Index Exchange funds the open web. Content and journalism across the internet are funded through advertising and we are the engine that helps to make that happen transparently safely and efficiently. Handling hundreds of billions of auctions per day within milliseconds requires an intense understanding of the exchange and the ecosystem that we live in.

Our business is growing significantly every year and is poised to grow even faster. Our people and our platforms are the foundation and enabler of that growth. We are significantly expanding our technology teams and are looking for technologists with a passion for high performance software development and a drive to deliver software products and platforms that enable and empower industries at a global scale.

What Were Looking For:

• Technical Leadership: You have gained experience and skills that enable you to chart a technical path for products systems and architectures. You are happy to be handson in the code but your biggest impact is leading from the front and guiding others. Your role is to represent the technical health and future of the products you support and applying industry best practices towards designs and implementations.
• People Leadership: You know how to work with and lead a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers. You have demonstrated mentorship skills and set a technical vision to challenge your team in a way that empowers them to have incredible impact. You empower teams who in turn build intricate systems that deliver great outcomes.
• Handler of Broad Scope:You thrive in environments where multiple projects and initiatives are under your ownership in different maturity levels. Specifically when the number of initiatives is larger than the resources. You are able to selfmanage your own and your teams time in each of the projects in the intent of achieving the highest impact on the organisation. You take sequencing of projects and tasks into consideration and proactively report progress and delays to drive coordination.
• Driver of Outcomes: You are intentional in your path establishing a vision or hypothesis setting a direction and guiding your team through . You use data to inform pivots or to validate assumptions and partner with the Product team to set a roadmap establish goals and forecasts to achieve both technical and business outcomes.
• EndtoEnd Owner: You take great pride in the products your team owns and delivers and take full responsibility for their quality health and outcomes. You lead your team in ensuring services remain healthy and that technical debt is regularly paid down. When issues arise you lead your team in responding mitigating and addressing the issues to learn from them for the future.
• Organizational Coordinator: You are the first point of contact for your team your products and your delivery plan. You foster a collaborative approach to delivery and leverage those relationships to unblock dependencies. You are a strong communicator and collaborator responsive when issues arise and celebrate successes by representing your teams achievements to the rest of the organization.

Heres What You Need:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Mathematics Computer Science Engineering or equivalent.
• Demonstrated leadership and management of 310 person teams.
• A passion for cutting edge technologies leading teams and nurturing talent development among your team(s).
• Extensive experience in visualization and explanatory articulation of data science approaches test and production results.
• Experience with ML and data science platforms and technologies.
• Experience with building and managing ML data pipeline to support data science and machine learning initiatives.
• Experience with data preparation and cleaning as well as data enrichment.
• Knowledge of big data stack including Kafka Hadoop Spark Scala and Airflow as well as data warehouse technologies such as Vertica.
• Knowledge of BI tools like Looker and/or Redash will be very helpful.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernates is a plus.

Why Youll Love Working Here:

• Comprehensive health dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
• Paid time off health days and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Generous parental leave available to birthing nonbirthing and adoptive parents
• Annual wellbeing allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program that provides an inthemoment point of contact and reassurance
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donationmatching program
• Biweekly town halls and regular communityled team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
• A workplace that supports a diverse equitable and inclusive environment learn more here

Equal employment opportunity

At Index Exchange we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or expression or veteran status. Additionally we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classificationdiversity is the human experience. For those who show grit passion and humilityIndex will welcome you.

Accessibility for applicants with disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

If you require an accommodation pleasesharethe details of your request and any information how we can assist you with thehiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts toensure accommodation requests are metthroughoutthe recruitment process.

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Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto with major offices in New York Montreal Kitchener London San Francisco and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.