Data Scientist, Search Science (Ads)
Shipt · US
Impact As a Data Scientist on the Search Science team, you will focus on improving sponsored search capabilities to help grow ad revenue, a key business prio...
Job description
Impact As a Data Scientist on the Search Science team, you will focus on improving sponsored search capabilities to help grow ad revenue, a key business priority. Longer term, you will help evolve toward a unified ranking system that balances relevance, monetization, and customer retention. You will work alongside Senior Scientists and ML Engineers who will mentor you and help you grow. As a Data Scientist you will help improve the relevance and ranking of sponsored products to increase ad revenue while maintaining a great customer experience. You will conduct data analysis to identify areas for improvement across search and ads and build dashboards, run exploratory analyses, and present insights to stakeholders to inform product and strategy decisions. Contribute to models that balance organic relevance with ad monetization. Help implement and test ranking improvements using established ML techniques. What You’ll Need to Be Successful Degree in a STEM field (Computer Science, Statistics, etc.) with coursework or projects in machine learning 1–3 years of experience applying data science or machine learning to real-world problems (internships count) Strong coding skills in Python an...