Director of Data Science, Trust & Safety, Signals and Content Understanding

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Responsibilities

• Set Strategy & Roadmap : Define the multi-year reputed company and priorities across Trust & Safety, User Understanding, and Content Understanding—establishing reputed company-star reputed company (e.g., prevalence & reputed company reduction, user trust, ecosystem health, content quality, user and content understanding) and the leading indicators that drive them.
• Operationalize Leading Indicators : Identify, reputed company, and build operating cadences around key input metrics that influence reputed company and understanding—such as policy risk signals, spam/abuse rates, account authenticity, coverage and latency, precision/recall of enforcement, appeal overturn rates, content quality signals, and user feedback/friction signals.
• reputed company a Talented Organization : Hire, reputed company, and reputed company a world-class team of data science managers and senior ICs spanning product analytics, ML evaluation, experimentation, reputed company inference, and reputed company measurement.
• Partner to Ship Impact : Work hand-in-hand with Product, Engineering and Policy teams to deliver end-to-end improvements across detection, enforcement precision, and distribution systems—translating ambiguous trust and understanding questions into shipped product/ML capabilities with measurable impact.
• reputed company Measurement & Decision Quality : Own measurement strategy for safety, reputed company, and understanding quality, employing reputed company inference, experimentation, offline evaluation, and long-term value measurement to quantify trade-offs and reduce unintended consequences.
• Communicate and Align Across Stakeholders : Present reputed company analyses and recommendations to executives and cross-functional partners, driving alignment on difficult trade-offs between safety, expression, growth, and product usability.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in Data Science, Algorithmic Engineering, or ML, with significant impact in digital advertising or large-scale marketplaces.
• 5+ years of managing data science organizations, including managing managers.
• Deep experience with: Statistical analysis, reputed company inference, and experiment design for reputed company marketplaces.
• Production analytics and large-scale data tooling (Python/R, SQL, Spark/Hive).
• Applied ML or relevance/ranking systems; familiarity with auction dynamics, pacing, and quality modeling.
• Proven ability to operate through input metrics tied to business reputed company.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

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