Careers at Glance

Glance - An InMobi Group Company    

Founded in 2019, Glance is a consumer technology company that operates some of the most disruptive digital platforms including Glance, Roposo, and Glance TV. Glance has redefined the way the internet is consumed on the lock screen, removing the need to search for and download apps. Over 400 million smartphones now come enabled with Glance’s next-generation internet experience.   
  
Roposo has revolutionized commerce by launching a destination for creator-led live entertainment commerce. Glance TV is changing the way consumers engage and interact with their televisions.   
  
Headquartered in Singapore, Glance is an unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi Group and is funded by Jio Platforms, Google, and Mithril Capital. For more information, visit glance.com, roposo.com, and inmobi.com.    

  
What should you know about joining Glance?  
 

At Glance, we walk the talk – free yourself, dream big, and chase your passion! On joining, you’ll have opportunities to make an immediate impact on mission-critical projects, as you work with highly capable and ambitious peer groups.   
  

Be rewarded for your autonomy even as you collaborate. Ideate, innovate, and inspire by leveraging bleeding-edge tech to disrupt consumer experiences.   
  

While you work, we’ll take care of nourishing your body, mind, and soul. This includes daily meals, gym, trainings, tech tools, and regular unwind sessions. Also, feel free to bring your kids – even the furry ones – to the office!  

What you will be doing? 

Glance is looking for a Data Scientist who will design and develop processes and systems to analyze high volume, diverse "big data" sources using advanced mathematical, statistical, querying, and reporting methods. Will use machine learning techniques and statistical analysis to predict outcomes and behaviors.

• You will be responsible for leading one or more data science efforts for Ad yields and marketplace maneuvering. This involves project ideation and conceptualization, solution design, measurement and solution iteration, deployment and post deployment management.

• This will also include designing, development, testing of product experiments. You will need to guide junior members of the team in practical experiments, product design, model development and model evaluation. It is vital to be agile and iterate fast across experiments to deliver go-to-market ready products. 

• You are expected to be a hands-on as part of the role where you will actively analyse data, design and develop models, and problem-solve solutions with the rest of the team. 

• Additionally, stakeholder management is needed. It will involve being the interface with internal stakeholders such as our Product, Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, and Business teams. 

• You will work in a multi-functional team environment. You will collaborate and benefit from the skills of a diverse group of individuals from teams such as engineering, product, business, campaign management and creative development.
• We are a company that innovates and demonstrates our thought leadership to the world. We encourage and support all team members to write blogs, commentary and case studies published on the Glance blog. We also support team members across our ML/AI team to speak at industry conferences and represent Glance’s work. 

The experience we need 

• At a Staff level and above, candidates are expected to come in with deep expertise and experience in Ad Tech, AI/ML, and Data Science, particularly at scale. Familiarity with big data processing and cloud computing will be critical to succeed in this environment. 

• In addition to possessing a mathematical aptitude, they need to be competent with data science languages and tools which will enable them to design scalable solutions for our advertising products, implement proof-of-concept, and evaluate them offline and online. They will also need to work with other engineers to take these solutions to live production and drive real business value. 

• Most importantly, we look for a passion to investigate and learn about the world from data, to ask interesting and provocative questions, and be driven to put real models into production that drive real business value. 

• We are open to diverse academic backgrounds, providing an intent to think and problem-solve like a data scientist. Our team includes engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, economists and social scientists – a rock-star data scientist can come from any academic field. 

 

Qualifications 

• Master’s in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research or Economics, Analytics, Data Science. Or Bachelor's with additional experience. PhD a plus. 

• 10+ years of ad tech related industry experience working in Data Science teams. You would have applied algorithms and techniques such as NLP, Reinforcement Learning, Time Series, etc. from Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Statistics or other domains in solving real world problems and understand the practical issues of using these algorithms especially on large datasets. 

• Comfortable with software programming and statistical platforms such as R, Python etc. 

• Comfortable with the big data ecosystem and Apache Spark. Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud/Vertex AI will be a bonus. 

• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams. 

• Familiarity with challenges of the identity-less world, particularly for iOS and Android 

• Excellent technical and business communication skills and should know how to present technical ideas in a simple manner to business counterparts. 

• Possess a high degree of curiosity and ability to rapidly learn new subjects and technology 

 

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