Apple Ads is looking to innovate in Ads Auction and Marketplace Optimization to help people find what they're looking for and help advertisers grow their businesses, while respecting user privacy and delivering value.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience leading teams that apply auction theory, quantitative optimization, advanced statistical/ML methods to large, sophisticated datasets.
- Deep mathematical understanding of auction theory, game theory, economics, quantitative optimization, modern ML techniques, and statistics.
- Experience in one or more of the following domains: auction theory and auction design, game theory, machine learning, statistics, quantitative analysis, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with Python or Java in a production environment.
- Proficiency in databases, SQL, and scripting languages for data processing and model deployment.
- 10+ years of experience applying auction theory, game theory, economics, quantitative optimization, advanced statistical/ML methods to large, sophisticated datasets.
- Previous experience with online advertising domain highly preferred
Responsibilities
- Define and implement the technical strategy for building solutions for auction and marketplace optimization that can deliver value to advertisers, users, and Apple Ads.
- Play a critical role in shaping the strategy and roadmap for allied areas like campaign optimization, advertiser recommendations, response prediction etc to deliver an optimal end to end experience for advertisers and users
- Leverage innovative research and technology to deliver these capabilities at scale
- Design and analyze sophisticated algorithms to deliver incremental improvements that are privacy compliant
- Execute and analyze large-scale experiments to drive continuous improvements in ad effectiveness.
- Work closely with engineering and business teams to scale innovations, improving user experience and monetization potential across Apple’s advertising platform.
- Operate at utmost scale, ensuring efficient and reliable model deployment and execution.
Other
- Adventurous and strategic leader
- Track record of leading engineering teams from design to implementation, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Experience working with operational teams on deployment, monitoring, and system management.
- Strong analytical skills, ability to investigate multiple streams of ad quality data, draw insights, and recommend actionable solutions.
- BS, or equivalent experience, in Economics, AI, ML, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field
