Major Duties<ul><li>Serves as a Senior Data Scientist leading teams for the most complex projects. May also serve as a team participant or an independent analyst on professional data science teams.</li><li>Applies the rigors of the data science discipline to data analysis in Cyber, Information Technology and economic analyses of complex and potentially controversial major information technology systems and networks.</li><li>Responsible for advanced level data science analytics characterized as highly unstructured and complex, having little definition or clarity, and especially complex analytic projects assigned to the organization.</li><li>Provides business metrics and support for the most complex projects to identify improvements (contribution to the improvement should be monitored initially and over multiple iterations).</li><li>Coordinates with the data steward to ensure that the information used follows the regulatory and security policies in place.</li><li>Qualify where information can be stored or what information, external to the organization, may be used in support of the use case.</li><li>Lead analytical projects, providing direction and guidance to project members of a professional nature in the execution and implementation of projects.</li></ul>Qualifications/ Specialized ExperienceWho May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Army Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Employee Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee Current Civilian Employees of the Organization Applying to Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Positions Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current DoD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Employee (non-Army) Current DoD Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee (non-Army) Current Permanent DoD Civilian Employee (non-Army) Applying to Cyber Excepted Service Positions Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Applying to Cyber Excepted Service Positions Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement". If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package. In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Requirement for Data Scientist: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: GG-11 Qualifying Experience: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by (1) assisting with analyzing data in cyber, information technology, or other areas to ensure plans meet programming requirements; (2) analyzing economic information to ensure plans meet budgetary requirements; (3) working on a team providing business metrics and support for complex projects to identify needed improvements; (4) using information systems hardware and software applications, and systems integration as applied to big data analytics and operational research. GG-12 Qualifying Experience: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by (1) analyzing data in cyber, information technology and/or economic information to ensure plans meet programming or budgetary requirements; (2) providing business metrics and support for complex projects to identify needed improvements; (3) using information systems hardware and software applications, and systems integration as applied to big data analytics and operational research. GG-13 Qualifying Experience: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe two years of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by (1) leading teams in analyzing data in cyber, information technology to ensure plans meet programming; (2) analyzing economic information to ensure plans meet budgetary requirements; (3) providing business metrics and support for complex projects to identify needed improvements; (4) using information systems hardware and software applications, and systems integration as applied to big data analytics and operational research; (5) ensuring information used is in compliance with regulations and security policies.

WHO ARE WE? Launch Potato is a digital media company with a portfolio of brands and technologies. As The Discovery and Conversion Company, Launch Potato is a leading connector of advertisers to customers at all parts of the consumer journey, from awareness to consideration to purchase. The company is headquartered in vibrant downtown Delray Beach, Florida, with a unique international team across over a dozen countries. Launch Potato's success comes from a diverse, energetic culture and high-performing, entrepreneurial team. As a result, the company is always looking for like-minded teammates and partners. (This role will heavily focus on building machine learning models. This is NOT an engineering/data engineering position.) BASE SALARY: $110,000 to $160,000 per year, paid bi-monthly MUST HAVE: Experience within the performance marketing/lead gen industries. Professional experience designing, implementing, optimizing, and testing end-to-end Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) and recommendation systems. EXPERIENCE: A minimum of 4 years experience in a hands-on, in-the-weeds data science position. YOUR ROLE You will be developing deep personalization models for our users and complex optimization algorithms to bridge our customer experiences with new products/services. Your direct contribution will impact how we connect hundreds of thousands of customers to hundreds of advertisers together daily and will drive significant consumer impact while increasing revenue. You will play a pivotal role in the growth of our data science team and will be an instrumental resource as we continue to build a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers that can increase customer engagement and stickiness on our sites while improving the quality of the leads to our partners. This is an extremely hands-on and in-the-weeds Data Science role where you will be heavily immersed in the data and coding part of the solution implementation. You will design and oversee integrating state-of-the-art machine learning solutions across the company's products. This role will be responsible for strategic planning of Machine Learning initiatives with the Product, Engineering, Performance and Business Intelligence teams, analysis of potential impact and prioritization of those projects. SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE <ul><li>Innovate, create, and design ML solutions to various business problems such as:</li><ul><li>Design, implement and continuously improve Multi-Armed Bandit solutions to optimize decisions/options in place of multiple AB-tests.</li><li>Utilizing Large Language Models in content personalization across various verticals.</li><li>Recommendation systems to serve ads, offers, questions, etc.</li></ul><li>Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including but not limited to Analytics, Engineering, Product and Business Leads to improve model infrastructure, tracking and monitoring.</li><li>Provide data science support at different project stages, including the implementation of ML solutions by collaborating with Data Engineers and MLOps.</li><li>Being hands-on and in-the-weeds in the data, coding part of the solution implementation.</li></ul> WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED <ul><li>4+ years of related work experience in the field of Data Science & Machine learning.</li><li>2+ years of experience in the Marketing/Advertising Industry.</li><li>Solid background in Machine Learning and Statistics.</li><li>Professional experience designing and implementing Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) solutions and recommendation systems.</li><li>Proficiency in SQL, Python and working with Data Science tools (e.g., git, kubernetes, Docker, etc.).</li><li>Structure and clarify any ambiguity for the team, i.e., divide complex projects into sprints and coordinate implementation across multiple teams and individuals.</li><li>Experience creating ML solutions within cloud services (AWS/GCP).</li><li>Experience with ML model development lifecycle.</li><li>Experience with data visualization (preferably Looker).</li><li>Experience managing a team of data scientists and machine learning researchers (including career development).</li><li>Ability to communicate clearly, think independently, provide direction, and effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul> NICE TO HAVES <ul><li>Experience with LLMs and Deep learning models to develop business and data science solutions.</li></ul> Total Rewards & Compensation Base salary is set according to market rates for the nearest major metro and varies based on Launch Potato's Levels Framework. Your compensation package includes a base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits. Launch Potato is a performance-driven company, which means once you are hired, future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost of living adjustments. Want to make your impact in a profitable, high-growth company? Apply now! Since day one, we've been committed to having a diverse, inclusive team and culture. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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