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Lead Data Scientist, Behavioral & Social ML

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Job Description:

Your Mission

The Lead Data Scientist will lead a team of data scientists focused on developing and operationalizing machine learning (ML) models as part of our behavioral and social machine learning initiatives, which include identifying bad actors within our ecosystems and cultivating a positive player community. You will be responsible for:

• Managing and mentoring the Behavioral and Social ML team; setting prioritizations, developing the team roadmap, and delivering results
• Building scalable machine learning models to detect and provide context around disruptive behavior.
• Designing and maintaining scalable, efficient, production-quality detection tools to inform operations and measure performance.
• Researching and implementing novel ML approaches for new problems.
• Translating requirements from cross-disciplinary teams in Game Operations, Marketing, CRM, and Business Planning into data solutions.
• Synthesizing disparate data, detecting and working around broken data, and investigating every possibility until you have a thorough solution.
• Surfacing and communicating results to technical and non-technical colleagues by generating dashboards and reports.

As the machine learning expert on the team, you will leverage your experience to steer data-driven discussions, improve internal processes, and communicate results to technical and non-technical colleagues. You will be a trusted member of an established team of data scientists and machine learning engineers, focused on ensuring player satisfaction in our games. You will accomplish this by:

• Being a tenacious and self-catalyzing problem solver.
• Driving towards visibility, accountability, and communication.
• Being team-oriented, and able to build long-lasting and collaborative relationships effectively.
• Respectfully contributing your professional experience in every conversation.
• Listening with openness to others.
• Adapting quickly, having a high tolerance for ambiguity, and coordinating effectively on a team.
• Evangelizing ethical ML by being thoughtful about identifying, testing for, and reducing biases in models.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• M.S. in Mathematics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, or other quantitative field.
• 6+ years experience as a data scientist.
• NLP experience, including TF-IDF, text normalization, word embedding, and LSTM
• General machine learning expertise, i.e. regression, classification, and clustering algorithms, time-series analysis, Bayesian methods, and survival analysis.
• Prototype-to-production engineering skills in Python, including best practices such as source control, proper documentation, library packaging, versioning, testing, containerization, CI/CD, and task scheduling.
• Advanced SQL and Spark skills.
• Professional habits around model validation, testing, and tracking.
• Solid understanding of statistics, e.g. statistical power analysis, significance testing, t-tests, ANOVA.
• Engineering experience in at least one cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Bonus Points:

• Ph.D. with peer-reviewed publications and a proven track record of self-guided research.
• Video game enthusiasm with a solid understanding of the gameplay mechanics in Call of Duty and Warzone.
• Exposure to stream processing infrastructure such as Kafka and Spark Streaming.
• Hardware-level knowledge (C++, memory management, GPU rendering).
• Experience managing or mentoring other data scientists

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can’t expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/