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Director of Personalization StumbleUpon
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StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. More than 25 million users turn to StumbleUpon to be informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended just for them. In addition, more than 75,000 brands, publishers and other marketers have used StumbleUpon?s Paid Discovery platform to promote their products and services. Explore more.We?re looking for an Applied Researcher / Scientist to work on our massive semi-structured text and graph datasets. This role is ideal for a senior researcher who has both domain experience in data mining, information retrieval, or machine learning and a strong systems orientation. It offers the unique opportunity to conduct applied research and have a huge end-to-end impact on key StumbleUpon product initiatives.
Responsibilities:
At least 7-10 years of experience in large-scale and high-performance deployments in recommendation optimization
Be a hands on manager of senior engineers and data scientists
Significant experience in machine learning, data mining, analysis, optimization, and experimentation to maximize business success metrics of the products
You?re interested in big data: crunching billions of examples for statistical modeling, data mining, recommendation and personalization solutions
Ability to pro-actively collaborate with business and product management partners, and to design, build and optimize technical solutions for business success
You have worked with data mining toolkits like Weka, Mahout, R, NLTK or others
You have experience with Hadoop or other MapReduce paradigms
Familiarity with information retrieval libraries like Lucene / SOLR
Qualifications:
MS/Phd in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Strong communication skills in person
Strong team player
Provide guidance, leadership and mentoring to peers and less experienced team members
Thrives in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and agile development environment
| Location: | 140 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 United States |
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StumbleUpon
Investors: Accel Partners, August Capital, Sherpalo VenturesAll Jobs: at StumbleUpon
| Web Site: | www.stumbleupon.com |
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| Headquarters: | 140 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 United States |
| Industry: | IT Services |
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