About the Role
Digital Turbine's Data Science team transforms marketplace data into actionable intelligence, including insights, models, and experiments to optimize the business. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will collaborate with engineering, product, and business leaders to drive strategy through analysis, focusing on areas like bidding efficacy, audience curation, measurement, attribution, and experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Frame ambiguous business problems as testable data and modeling questions, delivering analysis that informs product and commercial strategy.
- Design and analyze experiments (A/B and beyond) and help establish a centralized experimentation tracking system.
- Build statistical and ML models for audience segmentation, bid/UA optimization, lifetime value, and measurement/attribution.
- Develop time-series and real-time event understanding to enhance recommendations and bidding timeliness and relevance.
- Partner with ML and Data Engineering to productionize models and integrate insights into the Next Best Action framework.
- Communicate findings clearly to technical and executive audiences.
- Mentor other analysts and scientists.
Requirements
- 8+ years in data science or quantitative analysis, ideally in AdTech, marketplaces, or consumer-scale products.
- Strong foundations in experimental design, hypothesis testing, causal inference, and statistical/ML modeling (regression, classification, clustering, time-series).
- Fluency in SQL and Python (or R).
- Comfort working with large-scale data in cloud data warehouses / lakes.
- Distinctive problem-solving skills and the ability to translate analysis into business recommendations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Statistical modeling
- Machine learning modeling
- Experimental design
- Hypothesis testing
- Causal inference
- Regression
- Classification
- Clustering
- Time-series analysis
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Digital Turbine powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world's leading telcos, advertisers, and publishers through an end-to-end platform that simplifies awareness, acquisition, and monetization.
- The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices.
- Recognized as an employer of choice with multiple awards including BuiltIn's Best Places to Work Awards (2022, 2023, 2024), DUNS 100 Best Places to Work in Tech (2023, 2024), and BDICode's 100 Best Companies to Work (2024).
Equal Opportunity
- Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer committed to exemplifying diversity and inclusion around the world.
- We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
- We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment.
- Building and continuously fostering this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators, partners, and innovators.
