Manager of Machine Learning
Ibotta is seeking a Manager of Machine Learning to drive our team’s mission of building world-class solutions that help make every purchase rewarding for millions of consumers. We are looking for a self-motivated manager who has a passion for pushing the envelope with scalable machine learning solutions leveraging cutting edge cloud technology. The ideal candidate will be an experienced, collaborative and inspiring leader with a track record of attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining world-class talent.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead the team responsible for designing, developing and deploying large scale, big data-driven machine learning models that are integrated with key product features. Some examples of potential projects include:
- Recommendation system that leverages robust, granular customer data sets and various modeling approaches to ensure the most relevant content is shown to each user
- Search relevancy engine that leverages machine learning, word embeddings, ranking algorithms, and millions of products across hundreds of retailers to ensure the most relevant content is shown when a user searches within the app
- Product matching algorithms that determine if a user has met the purchase requirements for a given offer
- Mentor the talented individual contributors on your team to grow and develop their professional and technical skills
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, and analytics leadership to help identify high impact applications for machine learning and data science solutions
- Communicate complex data science solutions, concepts and the results of analyses in a clear and concise manner to business stakeholders to maximize the effectiveness and adoption of machine learning initiatives
- Research industry trends and standards to stay abreast of new developments and continue to push the envelope on machine learning solutions at Ibotta
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or equivalent role with 2+ years in a tech lead and/or team management role.
- Strong track record of developing, motivating and inspiring individual contributors
- Advanced knowledge of at least one machine learning framework (scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, etc.)
- Experience working with distributed big-data tools (Spark, Hive, etc.)
- Hands on experience operationalizing machine learning models (ensuring best practices and frameworks around testing, monitoring, reliability, security, etc.)
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the proven ability to collaborate across functional areas to translate high-level business objectives into tangible data science solutions, establish priorities and drive towards common goals
- Experience with AWS a plus
About Us:
Headquartered in Denver, CO, Ibotta ("I bought a...") is a free mobile shopping and payments app that has delivered more than $675 million in cumulative cash rewards to its users for making purchases in-store, on mobile apps, or via websites. Launched in 2012, Ibotta has more than 35 million downloads and has become one of the most frequently used shopping apps in the United States. The Ibotta platform provides cash back on purchases at more than 1,500 leading brands and hundreds of retailer partners. In 2019, Ibotta launched its payments solution, Pay with Ibotta™, enabling shoppers to pay for their entire purchase through the Ibotta app and instantly earn cash back. Ibotta was named to the 2019 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., after debuting on the list in 2018. The company recently became the first mobile consumer technology company in Colorado to achieve $1B in valuation.
Learn more about Ibotta here: https://liferewarded.ibotta.com/press-and-media/
To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.
Additional Details:
- This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), 401k, commuter stipend, and equity.
- Ibotta provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, and genetics.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
- For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.