Senior Data Scientist Ads Innovation at Eyeo

Get to know us
eyeo is an open source software company whose market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for leading browsers on the market. Our privacy-first products like Crumbs promote transparency and an improved browsing experience. eyeo is dedicated to giving users control of their online experience while fostering a sustainable online value exchange between content creators, publishers, advertisers and users. 
In combining our User Growth partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 250 million monthly active users.
At eyeo, we’re passionate about user agency, personal privacy and sustainability as well as keeping the web an open, fair resource for everyone.
How we work
eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and our company culture. We practice an agile, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional teams that span nearly every timezone. Many of our tech teams prefer to work asynchronously. If working remotely isn’t for you, we also have two offices (Cologne and Berlin) that you can choose to work from. Twice a year we come together with our teams for Team Days and once a year we offer an offsite company retreat, Summer Week. By offering remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a hybrid culture that offers a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging. 
What you'll do
You’ll be working in a start-up environment for a privacy-centric advertising product that disrupts the advertising industry and inspires a shift towards solutions that respect end users’ choices. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead various product experiments by designing and implementing privacy-preserving algorithms, develop models of user behavior, perform audience segmentation and event measurement, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive Data Science initiatives forward.
After your morning routine, you'll be expected to...

Leading the data science efforts for a bold and innovative project in the field of privacy-preserving advertisement, that aims to be integrated into hundreds of millions of devices. This involves project ideation and conceptualization, solution design, measurement and solution iteration, coaching, deployment and post deployment management
Collaborating with a cross-functional team, closely working with product, engineering, and other teams to incorporate Data Science capabilities into eyeo’s products and services
Defining problem statements and gathering business and product requirements that align with the product vision, goals and KPIs
Designing algorithms, protocols, and architectures that will enable specific advertising use-cases (identification, gathering, and processing) with minimal impact on users' privacy
Applying privacy-by-design principles in the product development process
Analyzing data, designing and building proof of concept models, shipping ML models to production and evaluating them

What you bring to the table…

Ability to self-manage, own complex topics, and drive initiatives 
Experience in designing and developing algorithms for data extraction, sharing, and processing whilst also considering the privacy aspects of the processes
You’re experienced with Data Science and Machine Learning (aka A.I.), including Classification, Active Learning and NLP
You have strong implementation experience with at least one programming language (we’re using Python & SQL, experience in R etc. is acceptable)
Good understanding of how the web works
Ability to present and pitch results to a variety of stakeholders 
Agile mindset 
Great teamwork, communication and coordination skills 
You are proactive and have a hands-on approach

It's awesome if you know about…

Experience in ad-tech (good understanding of how current advertising & measurement protocols work) 
Experience working remotely or in distributed teams 
Containerization (Docker, Containerd) 
Distributed learning, federated learning 
Experience in Encryption 
Knowledge of innovation and Lean Startup methodology

What we offer

Work remotely or from one of our offices —we trust you to find what works best for you
Budget for the following: home office and/or relocation
Flexible working hours
28 days paid vacation + Volunteer day
Your choice of hardware and setup
Personal and professional development budget
Monthly child care allowance for children under 6
Offsite team days and the annual summer company retreat
Company-sponsored hackathons

Helpful links


Monetization: https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-explained-monetization

eyeo in the news: https://eyeo.com/press/

Blog updates: https://eyeo.com/blog/

Life at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/careers/working-at-eyeo

The team at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/team 


Open Source repository: https://github.com/adblockplus, https://gitlab.com/eyeo

Privacy Notice
Eyeo is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief. When you apply, you’ll be automatically forwarded to our recruitment platform operated by an external service provider called Greenhouse (seated in the US). Greenhouse collects some information on its website, such as anonymous usage statistics, by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technology. For more information, please refer to Greenhouse’s Privacy Policy. All documents and information provided by you are stored with Greenhouse. In order to ensure an adequate level of data protection, eyeo and Greenhouse have entered into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“processors”) - Commission Decision C(2010)593. You can request a copy of this by contacting us at privacy[at]eyeo.com. If you don’t want your data forwarded to Greenhouse, please do not apply. For detailed and further information, please refer to our Privacy Policy at https://eyeo.com/en/privacy.