Director, Applied Science - Ad Optimization & ML Systems

• Own the end-to-end design, deployment, and performance of Viant’s real-time prediction and bid-optimization systems - models that run inside strict latency budgets and directly drive auction outcomes
• Define the technical formulation for ambiguous ad-optimization problems: what’s being optimized (click, conversion, ROAS, or incremental value), who the valid training population is, what the model should predict, and how a downstream system should interpret it
• Provide technical and strategic leadership to a team of applied scientists and ML engineers - reviewing designs, coaching through production tradeoffs, and setting technical direction
• Own the operational realities of production ML at scale: delayed feedback and attribution, label imbalance, latency and serving constraints, monitoring, drift, and retraining
• Evaluate and improve the systems that decide how bids are placed and adjusted in live auctions, incorporating budget, volume, and business constraints into the model’s output
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align technical roadmap with business priorities
• Build toward more autonomous, multi-step decisioning systems as the team’s technical roadmap expands beyond single-prediction models

• 10+ years of experience building and deploying production machine learning systems, with at least 5+ years in a hands-on technical leadership role
• Direct experience with real-time, high-scale decisioning systems - ad optimization, bidding, ranking, recommendation, or a closely comparable domain with similar latency and volume constraints
• Demonstrated ability to formulate an ambiguous business problem into a precise ML specification: labels, training population, objective, loss function, and evaluation metrics - without relying on framework-level generalities
• Working fluency in the operational demands of production ML: delayed feedback, latency and serving tradeoffs, monitoring, drift, and retraining
• A track record of technical leadership: reviewing and improving other scientists’ system designs, not just managing their output
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s preferred

GREAT TO HAVE

• Direct experience with real-time bidding, ad auctions, or programmatic advertising systems specifically
• Experience with identity resolution or cross-device/cross-platform user matching
• Experience with agentic or multi-step autonomous decisioning systems
• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field
• Publications or conference contributions in ML or a closely related field
• Formal people-management tenure beyond the 5-year hands-on leadership requirement above

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