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About Akamai
If you use the Internet for anything - to check sports scores, book a hotel, track an order, or watch a movie trailer online - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. Akamai is the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. An S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 company, Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate for more than 2,000 enterprises. Akamai - Powering a Better Internet.

About the Team
You will be joining Akamai's Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) team - a new division focused on bringing to market a set of behavioral targeting products for the online advertising space. These solutions enable more precise, scalable, and efficient online advertising. You will be working with the largest Publishers, Advertisers, and Ad Networks on the Internet today.

About the Job
ADS's mission is to leverage Akamai's unique position in the Internet ecosystem - carrying web traffic for the premier ad networks, publishers, and advertisers - to reduce friction and expand the behaviorally targeted advertising ecosystem. By eliminating cumbersome pixel-based data sharing systems and inflexible segmentation systems, ADS intends to become a key part of online advertising universe. Our system has already been adopted by many of the leading advertisers and ad networks.

ADS also contains one of the Internets premier databases of online retail behavior - over 100 million anonymous user profiles based on data collected from over 500 retail and product manufacturer web sites. In Q4 2008, over $6.5M of revenue was generated from predictive analytics based products.

Responsibilities
This position is responsible for one of the critical aspects of the business - unlocking the value of data by leading our data modeling efforts. Initial responsibilities will include development of an incremental response methodology, multivariate testing, and systematic exploration of alternate data preparation and modeling approaches to optimize profit. Follow on-work may include segmentation and automatic text classification. This role will manage a small (1-3 person) team, and there will be an opportunity to grow and lead a larger analytics effort as the business unit expands.

Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS degree, advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or Operations preferred
• Overall Experience: 5+ years of experience in applied data mining and modeling
• Experience in direct mail on in online behavioral advertising
• Research or related quantitative disciplines
• Substantial experience with one or more of the major data mining toolsets (SAS EM, SPSS Clementine, KXEN AF) and linear or logistic regression
• Ability to oversee development and develop in SQL, scripting languages, etc.
• Strong understanding of the data mining techniques (clustering, decision trees, SVM)
• Expertise in model design, variable selection and analytic record construction
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with automated text/web classification is a plus
• Prior management experience preferred

• Is relocation available for this position: No
• Is US Citizenship required: No
• Is a Security Clearance Required: No

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Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer (M/F/D/V) that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace.