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Senior Director, Machine Learning
Fetch
WorldwideRemote1mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
- Own the machine learning strategy and execution for Fetch’s ads and offers optimization domain.
- Lead teams responsible for ads delivery, ads infrastructure, ranking, relevance, forecasting, pacing, personalization, and optimization.
- Define technical direction across multiple teams, systems, and stakeholders.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies, system-level decisions, and measurable execution plans.
- Ensure architectural coherence, platform reliability, model quality, and operational excellence across the domain.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Sales, and business stakeholders to align ML investments with user experience, advertiser performance, and company growth.
- Lead trade-off decisions involving relevance, pacing, yield, monetization, marketplace dynamics, latency, scalability, and long-term platform health.
- Coach and develop managers, technical leads, and senior ICs to raise standards for technical judgment, execution, and team effectiveness.
- Build scalable mechanisms for planning, hiring, performance management, technical review, and accountability.
- Own domain-level outcomes across technical quality, product progress, business impact, delivery performance, and organizational health.
- 10+ years of experience in machine learning, software engineering, data science, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience leading teams, managers, or technical leaders in a high-scale technology environment.
- Experience operating ML, ranking, ads, recommendations, personalization, or optimization systems at scale.
- Deep experience with ads delivery, ranking, relevance, personalization, forecasting, pacing, marketplace quality, or optimization.
- Strong technical foundation developed through prior hands-on experience as an engineer, ML practitioner, applied scientist, data scientist, or technical lead.
- Proven ability to define technical direction across multiple teams, including system architecture, platform capability, and engineering leverage.
- Strong judgment around ML system design, experimentation, model evaluation, ranking quality, marketplace dynamics, and technical trade-offs.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning cross-functional partners around technical priorities and business outcomes.
- Experience coaching managers, technical leads, and senior ICs.
- Track record of building inclusive, high-performing teams with strong ownership, engagement, and execution discipline.
- Experience leading ads delivery, ad ranking, ad relevance, ads infrastructure, or ads marketplace teams at a scaled consumer technology, retail media, marketplace, social, search, gaming, or ad tech company.
- Experience with large-scale recommendations, personalization, retrieval and ranking systems, auction dynamics, yield optimization, or real-time decisioning platforms.
- Experience with forecasting, pacing, budget optimization, campaign delivery, or performance prediction.
- Experience working in a two-sided or multi-sided marketplace.
- Familiarity with experimentation platforms, A/B testing, offline and online evaluation, causal measurement, model monitoring, and production ML operations.
- Experience with modern ML tooling, feature platforms, real-time serving systems, distributed data processing, and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Experience partnering with go-to-market or commercial teams on advertiser, brand, or partner-facing outcomes.
- Experience scaling systems, teams, and processes in a high-growth environment.
- Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
- 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
- Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
- Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
- Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
- Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
- Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
- Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
- Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Vision Insurance
- Unlimited Vacation
- Paid Time Off
- Pension Matching
- Learning Budget
- Equity Compensation
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