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Apple ML Data Science Manager - Marketplace Analytics Apple Ads United States, West Virginia 786423127
04.09.2025
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You will have experience hiring and leading large-scale, sophisticated data science teams that deliver impactful insights via pattern mining, anomaly detection, modeling, classification, and creation of wide ranging analytical tooling. Successful candidates will take pride in implementing and sustaining end-to-end analytical solutions that have direct and measurable impact. The role requires both a broad knowledge of existing data mining algorithms and creativity to invent and customize when necessary.
- Apply best-in-class modeling and analytics techniques to enable rapid insights discovery for multiple business, cross-functional teams and senior leadership
- Lead development of all predictive models on seasonality, anomaly detection, forecasting metrics for all ad businesses. Guide end-to-end lifecycle stages from PoC development, testing, industrialization and monitoring model performance.
- Lead classification and categorization of queries, apps, and discovery of app cohorts using ML models/ LLMs. Extract contextual signals from aggregated interaction data to feed into ads marketplace design.
- Lead analysis of business metrics, their interactions, and framework design on deep-dive investigations. Monitor usage metrics, provide business-based explanations for large-scale trends and patterns.
- Lead creation of self-serve, analytics tools and data products to enable insights discovery at lightning speed and scale.
- Automate and scale existing analysis methods. Institute new approaches on modeling and analysis frameworks.
- Guide statistical analysis, model development and visualization of data to help understand how advertisers use Apple Ads for app promotion.
- Support a wide variety of stakeholders ranging from sales, finance, product, engineering, and senior leadership. Frequently present insights to senior leaders and be able to distill findings into clear, comprehensible, and actionable insights.
- Lead a team of multiple managers and ICs. Hire and develop leading talent with proven, relevant, data science skills. Motivate and ensure success for the team by defining roles and responsibilities that are clearly communicated, define and share a strategic vision for the function, establish processes, and develop personal development plans.
- Empower global business teams with insights to inform and fulfill strategic objectives and goals.
- 10+ years of data science experience with 3+ years of experience leading data science, or machine learning teams.
- 2+ years of experience in mobile advertising and performance-based advertising platforms.
- Experience in statistical analysis, machine learning models, and advanced quantitative methods with a strong focus in experiment design and causal inference. Must include experience with regression, classification, clustering, time-series analysis, and LLMs.
- Exceptional programming skills in Python and SQL. Comfort with advanced analytics and data visualization tools and libraries such as Pandas, R, Spark, and Tableau.
- Deep familiarity with commonly user Statistics and ML libraries such as ScikitLearn, SparkMLLib, SciPy, and/or StatsModels. Familiarity Causal Inference packages such as CausalImpact, DoubleML, DoWhy, and EconML is a big plus.
- Experience working with modern data engineering technologies and cloud-based data warehousing solutions. Familiarity with database modeling and data warehousing principles.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, stakeholder management, and planning skills; demonstrated success building buy-in for an innovative and bold vision.
- Must be able to guide and lead ML data scientists embedded into engineering capabilities. Seamlessly collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders including senior leadership, product managers, finance, engineering. Able to create trust.
- Have a strategic mindset with an aptitude to condense complex concepts, analysis, and models into actionable data driven solutions and strategies that will propel Apple’s digital advertising businesses.
- Bachelor's in a quantitative field, such as Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Social Sciences, or equivalent professional experience.
- 15+ years of data science experience with 5+ years of experience leading data science, or machine learning teams.
- 4+ years of experience in mobile advertising and performance-based advertising platforms, direct work experience in ad auctions, especially keyword matching, predictions, ranking, pricing, or relevance is a big plus.
- Ph.D. or Masters in a quantitative field, such as Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Social Sciences, or equivalent professional experience.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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