Unity Director Data Science - Ads Platform 

Finland, Helsinki 

146197292

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor an organization of autonomous Data Science teams, promoting excellent development practices and ensuring the timely delivery of commitments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Business Insights, and Commercialization teams to align staffing and business priorities.
• Performance Accountability: Foster a culture of accountability across all levels, establishing clear goals and measurable outcomes.
• Cost Management: Collaborate with finance and cloud teams to manage costs associated with all services from training to inference.
• Strategic Input: Contribute to the broader Unity technology leadership community by providing input into strategies and standards, ensuring solution reuse, and eliminating solution redundancy.

• Team Management: Proven experience in managing and growing teams of over 30 data scientists and engineers.
• Technical Expertise: Extensive experience with modern machine learning operations (‘MLOps’) infra, tooling and frameworks.
• Ad Experience: In-depth knowledge of mobile ads.
• Global Team Experience: Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Machine Learning Expertise: Experience in designing and building machine learning models for large scale environments.
• Experience with LLMs / NLP and text data at scale.

• Collaborative Leadership: Ability to lead with collaboration yet make decisive decisions.
• Natural Leader: Demonstrated natural leadership qualities and a strong team player.
• Global Effectiveness: Comfort and effectiveness in working with globally distributed teams.
• Research Leadership : Proven ability to push the boundary of technical research, with a publication and patent history that reflects this.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.