Senior Data Scientist Nlp at Getty Images

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Senior Data Scientist  (NLP) - Calgary-  Remote

Duration: Permanent 
Location: Calgary
Start: ASAP

Due to the current conditions of COVID-19, this key position will initially work from home, until such a time when we return to our office.


Who You Are:

Getty is embarking on its next wave of innovation in visual storytelling and how to put the perfect image or video in our customer’s hands, be it for a society-changing headline or a brand’s next big campaign—truly moving the world with images. 
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to research, build, and deploy natural language processing and natural language understanding models. Using your machine learning and linguistic expertise while considering the broader business context, you will develop industry-leading functionality in visual search across many languages. This position will have a direct impact on the search and browse paths for over 50 million visitors from almost every country in the world, with a direct tie to Getty Images' revenue. 
In this position, you will lead and own building NLP/NLU models to better understand our customers query intent. Partnering with data scientists, MLEs, search engineers, and product you’ll ensure we are returning the most relevant search results.  



Your Next Challenge: 

Build industry-leading NLP/NLU models to accelerate our international growth, using our search queries, images, metadata, and/or customer interactions to significantly improve our customers’ image/video search and discovery experiences, globally in 20+ regions and 20+ languages 
Partner closely with data scientists, product, machine learning engineers, engineers, user researchers, and designers to implement models aligned to customer needs and deploy to production 
Develop our technical strategy and roadmap alongside product, team members, and leadership. Distilling customer requirements into problem definitions, identifying solutions, and recommending measures of success. 
Lead, guide and mentor team members in building best-in-class machine learning solutions 



What You’ll Need:

Proven expertise building and validating NLP/NLU models with deep learning as well as traditional methods for multiple languages. Areas of preferred expertise include: text embeddings (ex: BERT), disambiguation, and modifiers.  
A minimum of 5 years of hands-on technical experience in academia and industry 
A strong understanding of the real-world advantages and drawbacks of various algorithms and the ability to measure success 
Ability to handle ambiguity, priorities, and competing objectives. Experience solving highly technical problems. 
Hands-on experience with accessing data, Python, machine learning libraries, and deep learning libraries (ex: scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, scipy, TensorFlow, SQL, hive, spark, etc.) 
Experience providing mentorship and guidance to team members. 
Ability to write clean, understandable code that follows leading industry standards and practices and is well-documented, and to build easily reproducible models 
An ability to consider biases that exist in the data and develop solutions to mitigate biases appropriately 
Outstanding communication skills. Ability to communicate at all levels, including explaining sophisticated technical solutions to non-experts 
Open listener, ability to be open to many diverse voices and perspectives 
Nice-to-have: Fluency in 2+ languages 
Nice-to-have: Background in linguistics 
Nice-to-have: Familiarity with computer vision techniques 
A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Sociology, Natural Sciences, or any other equivalent quantitative field is preferred 



Mental and Physical Demands:

Frequent communication with others to exchange information.
Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary.
Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc.
Frequent repetition of motions and gestures that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers. (Required)



Due to the current conditions and impact of Covid-19, this key position will initially work from home, until such a time we open our offices. At the time of the local office opening, employees and managers will partner to determine the work site location in line with our Flexible working policy.

Benefits at Getty Images
 
Extended Health Insurance
We provide comprehensive health and dental benefits.
 
Time off Work/life balance is important to us
We provide flexible time off and 10 sick days each calendar year. Additionally, we pay 4 weeks of fully-paid Parental Leave for new parents, with primary caregivers eligible for an additional 8 weeks of fully-paid leave.  
 
Company Paid Holidays
Employees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations.
 
Disability and Life Insurance
We automatically enroll and pay for Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D) up to 2 times your annual salary. We also provide you with fully paid Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance. 
 
Employee Assistance Program
Employees have access to free, confidential assistance for everyday problems such as stress management, financial coaching, marital or family issues, substance abuse, occupational problems, and referrals for legal, childcare, and eldercare services. Employees can seek additional discounts on other wellness activities such as travel, gym memberships, and sports! Through our EAP services, employees are also eligible for 3 free counseling visits and life coaching sessions.  
 

Group RRSP Matching Program  
Save for retirement by making contributions consistently and conveniently. Getty Images will match 100% of your  contributions, up to a maximum of 3% of your base salary!

Learning & Growth
We value continuous learning and development to help everyone develop their skills. Enjoy mentorship, curated training & more.

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Covid-19 Company Statement:
Getty Images does not require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but vaccination or testing may be mandated by the relevant local laws with which Getty Images will comply. If this position involves contact with third parties, attendance on site for events, travel and/or work in our offices, those actions will be subject to any to relevant local laws, venue or customer requirements, or travel requirements regarding vaccines or testing (and exemptions thereto).  

US Specific:
Getty Images does not require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but vaccination or testing has been mandated by the Biden administration and that mandate applies to our US workforce. If this position involves contact with third parties, attendance on site for events, travel and/or work in our offices, those actions will be subject to any to relevant local laws, venue or customer requirements, or travel requirements regarding vaccines or testing (and exemptions thereto).

Who We Are:
For over 25 years, Getty Images has embraced disruption and change; riding the digital wave to evolve from a fragmented, analog stock photo business into a multi-billion dollar, global e-commerce industry leader and trusted brand. The breadth and quality of our content has always allowed our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. 
 
Help us move the world with images!
Getty Images is the most trusted and esteemed source of visual content in the world available through its industry-leading sites www.gettyimages.com and www.istock.com. The Getty Images website serves creative, business and media customers in almost 200 countries and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and share powerful content from the world's best photographers and videographers.
 
Getty Images works with over 360,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept and the world's deepest digital archive of historic photography. With over 440 million assets, of which over 320 million are digitized, encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter.
 
Getty Images offers the most exclusive and unique creative and editorial visual content globally. The breadth and quality of our content allows our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, thereby eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world —whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Getty Images offers the highest quality and most diverse visual content, based on industry-leading expertise and innovation.

Leadership Principles

As a company, we're committed to living these Principles every day. Here's how we support our mission to be the best place to work globally.

We are trustworthy, transparent, and honest
We love character, authenticity, and integrity.

We always raise the bar
Excellence is our norm; we get better through endeavor, curiosity, and speed.

We collectively bring solutions
We love debate, but collaborating to solve problems for ourselves and our customers is everyone’s responsibility.

We care, are kind, courteous, and respectful
We will not tolerate rudeness.

We reject biased behaviour and discrimination
We seek to understand biases in all forms. We call out biases and discrimination when observed and take action where responsible.

We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experience
Diversity and inclusion are never done, but we are passionate in their pursuit.

We are one Getty Images with no silos
We share goals and accountability; we and actively seek information and expertise; we make time for our peers.

We deliver on our commitments, and commercial goals
With one voice and shared accountability.

We put the customer at the heart of everything we do
We listen to, anticipate, and exceed customer needs, adapting as they evolve.


We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Women, gender-nonbinary, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

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