Senior Data Scientist (Growth Data Science)

Beijing, China

About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco:

Data Science and Analytics (DSA) is a global team of data scientists and analysts. As a Growth Data Scientist, you will provide data products, e.g. raw data, campaign facts, and growth insights to help customers improve campaign performance and maximize their business goals with Moloco.
Develop, maintain and improve global experiment process to scale standard and bespoke experiments with Moloco customers

The Opportunity:

Moloco Growth Data Scientist contributes in the following areas, all while working cross-functionally to help meet our client’s needs and advance our machine learning models.
Data Analysis: data gathering, analysis, and effective communication of presentations and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for creating custom visual displays of quantitative information through writing queries, and scripts, and developing automated reports and dashboards to provide insights at scale.
Data validation: verifying the data we obtain from ad exchanges and mobile-app tracking solutions to confirm our campaign models are trained with the most accurate engagement data.
Campaign optimization: engaging in the life cycle of campaigns, from monitoring daily performance to partnering with sales teams on bespoke analysis for clients.
Business Collaboration: collaborate with key stakeholders to help Moloco focus on decisions that improve our products and services, with a focus on client growth.

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?

Minimum Requirements: Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Proficient in launching, running, optimising, and landing experiments from end to end
5 years and above of experience working with statistical packages (e.g., Python, SQL).
Fluent in speaking and writing both Chinese-Mandarin and English.
Statistics: must have strong knowledge and experience in experimental design, hypothesis testing, and various statistical analyses such as regression or time-series analysis.
Programming: experience in Python and SQL is required.
Comfortable balancing multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritizing work based on business needs.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present information and analysis results effectively to technical and less technical stakeholders (including Moloco end clients).
Ability to build positive relationships within the data science & analytics community, as well as with our business stakeholders and clients.,
Work effectively with cross-functional and cross-cultural partners.
Have an interest in data, metrics, analysis, and trends from the mindset of helping a customer-centric business. Know when to apply statistical measurement vs 80-20 analysis for business growth.

Preferred:

Ph.D. degree in a quantitative discipline.
Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time while paying attention to detail.
Distinctive problem-solving skills, good at articulating product and business questions, pulling data from large datasets, and using statistics to arrive at a recommendation.
Proven ability to own projects end-to-end, even when you have to get creative: you do more than complete delegated tasks.
Demonstrated leadership and self-direction. Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
Ability to seek out new business questions and effectively scope projects to support client growth, re-engagement, and overall campaign strategy and performance.

How You Work:

Your ethos is ownership

You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy partnering with others to shape vague requirements into clear roadmaps with pragmatic tradeoffs.
You take shared accountability for the end-to-end journey; communicating progress, surfacing risks early, and following through to ensure your work creates measurable value.
You demonstrate strong judgment under uncertainty.
You prioritize based on long-term impact, over short-term noise, making deliberate decisions when information is incomplete.
You explicitly weigh tradeoffs like speed vs. quality and remain agile enough to adjust your approach thoughtfully as new information/data emerges.
You lead through clarity and active listening.
You reduce ambiguity for the team by asking the right questions upfront, tailor your communication to your audience, document your decisions, and bring helpful structure to complex discussions.
You provide thoughtful, evidence-based feedback when needed and align behind decisions once they are made.

You collaborate early, instead of solving in isolation.

You build trust across the organization by listening first and navigate conflicting needs with empathy, creating buy-in around priorities and scope.
You navigate technical tensions productively, disagreeing thoughtfully while maintaining momentum and strengthening professional relationships.

You fall in love with the problem, not the solution

You build for the long run, looking beyond immediate tasks to understand root causes, second-order effects, and the long-term health of our ML ecosystem.
When something breaks, you don’t just patch it; you seek structural improvements that prevent recurrence and elevate the technical bar for the entire organization.

You prioritize customer impact and take action to make it real.

You prioritize effective solutions that drive business impact over technical elegance, spotting opportunities that others might overlook.
You have the initiative to turn ideas into outcomes and the agency to identify and fix gaps, even when they aren’t yet on the formal roadmap.

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values:

Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail.

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Equal Opportunity:

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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