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# Data Science Director

- **Company:** adjoe GmbH
- **Location:** Hamburg, Germany
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €84,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Artificial Neural Networks, Cloud Computing, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, MySQL, Recommender Systems, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.xing.com/jobs/hamburg-data-science-director-156322712

## About the Role

* 5+ years in Data Science, 2+ in leadership. You have a track record of architecting and deploying ML solutions, recommender systems and neural networks specifically, and have led data science teams through hiring, mentoring, regular 1-1s, and career development. At adjoe Ads, you'll be growing and managing the team of Data Scientists, Data & ML Engineers, Data Analysts that owns the entire bidding algorithm.
 * At least 50% hands-on. This is not a purely managerial role. You work on data science tasks yourself, own critical procedures like experiments and implementation details, and mentor data scientists in advanced modeling, programming quality, and strategic thinking.
 * Fluent in data at scale. You've worked with large, diverse data sources AWS Athena, Kafka, Spark, Flink, S3, MySQL and know how to extract signals from a 350TB data lake. Strong Python required; experience building an MLOps stack with Airflow, Spark, or Flink is a strong plus.
 * Bridges math and business. You can dive deep into mathematical foundations and translate complex model behavior into clear decisions for product and business stakeholders. You align with the adjoe Ads product team and Cloud Infrastructure on priorities, tools, and best practices.
 * Contributes to the roadmap, not just the backlog. You work on long-term strategy and quarterly OKRs, contributing to adjoe Ads' position as a strong competitor in the programmatic adtech market.



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