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Are you ready to join a high energy and fun new company in NYC working with a dedicated and talented team? We are looking for a true high level mathematics and statistics guru who is interested in becoming a thought leader and change agent in the $70B TV advertising marketplace. This hands-on manager must have experience in advising C-Level key business decisions using complex models they personally developed.

Only true statisticians need apply.

Key Skills:

• Thought Leadership. Design and construct analytical models.
• Expert knowledge of complex analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis.
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. This fast-paced start up is pioneering the development of predictive technology using a variety of data sources to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics (DS&A) drives Simulmedia's data strategy. We need someone who is a leader of people and ideas. The candidate will conceive and implement the statistical and analytical methods necessary to understand television consumption habits of viewers and their responses to on-air promotion. The Director, DS&A will work closely with senior leadership, product and technology teams to refine and take to market Simulmedia's offering. The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, creative, and with a voracious, wide-ranging curiosity. She/he should have a strong applied math or computer science background and should have 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets.

The Director DSA's responsibilities include:

• Developing, validating and maintaining audience data models and clustering/segmentation algorithms
• Designing requirements for structures to host data and support analytical applications required for the services
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts
• Identifying new sources of data to improve and enrich services
• Conceiving and implementing the analytical applications useful to media and marketing partners and conveying audience insights

• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
• Power user of canned statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, SPSS or Oracle data mining tools)
• 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets
• Strong data modeling and querying capability
• Master's level degree (or equivalent expertise/knowledge) in quantitative or analytical discipline such as Statistics, Decision Sciences, Operations Research or Econometrics.
• 3-5 years experience developing analytical models in marketing, finance, advertising or economics.
• 2+ years leading a team of analysts
• Working knowledge of one or more software development languages expected (Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl)
• Marketing intuition and familiarity with the attention economy a plus

We offer competitive salary, benefits, vacation, stock options and a stake in our company's success.

_Contact_:
For consideration please send your resume with a cover letter and salary history to Job 100, Director, DSA careers@simulmedia.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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