Head - Research - Ebay - Brisbane

Job description
Do you want to help shape the future of overall digital advertising industry? Do you believe that you can harness the power world’s large e-commerce data-set to enable advertisers reach their consumers? Are you obsessed with algorithms that learn to find the best ads possible by using every bit of information about users’ behavior? Do you want to lead a team of researchers who are re-inventing the ways to connect advertisers with their consumers and compete directly with the largest and best known technology companies in the world? If so, we want to speak with you!
eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace with over $175B of annual commerce volume and $16B in revenues. eBay Advertising is building ad targeting technologies to connect consumers across the web with relevant products and offers while utilizing the commerce data generated from the activity of 100s of millions of visitors to ebay.com and other eBay companies.
We are seeking a Head of Research for Ebay Audience Platform team to lead a talented team of researchers and data-scientists. We are looking for someone with solid mathematical foundation and deep knowledge of data-science techniques to optimize campaign performance. He or she should demonstrate expertise in digital advertising research including audience optimization, campaign performance and advertising analytics & insights and champion the relationship between the Research Team and Ad Operations, Engineering and Product Management Teams. This role reports to Head of Engineering & Research, Ebay Audience Platform.

Job Responsibilities
Be the internal research expert and demonstrate complete ownership of research initiatives and deliverables for the ebay Audience Platform;
Guide development of algorithms and software infrastructure scalable to petabytes of data across data centers;
Innovate in the areas of audience profiling & optimization, ad targeting, campaign and price optimization, and campaign and audience analytics;
Partner with product management to gather competitive intelligence information and influence product roadmap, influence product definition;
Influence product definition, present status and point-of-view to executive team
Actively engage other eBay technology and research organizations to integrate and leverage their research efforts, technologies and data;
Be able to leverage ebay’s own e-commerce data and 3rd party data-sets and build algorithms and products to optimize campaign performance;
Work closely with pre-sales teams to help win business by providing consumer insights, industry trends and by highlighting strengths of ebay’s data and audience optimization platform;
Be a thought leader and evangelize use of algorithms and products developed by the research team to large internal audience;
Be able to participate in client and agency meetings to discuss research methods, collaborate on campaign strategy and provide insights on consumer behavior;
Recruit top talent to grow the research team and coach on career development;

Desired Skills and Experience
10+ years of overall experience in research capacity in digital advertising industry, e-commerce or related consumer web technologies and products;
3+ years of experience recruiting, managing and coaching high quality research teams;
3+ years of experience developing algorithms for digital campaign or audience optimization, search algorithms for e-commerce, big-data analytics etc.
Deep understanding of machine learning techniques to solve complicated problems for large data-sets;
MS in Computer Science / Statistics from a top-quality university is a must. PhD preferred.
Proven track record of fast learning, innovation, strategic thought leadership and teamwork
Strong analytical, data driven decision making and problem solving with attention to details
Ability to navigate large organizations, develop relationships and build network
Outstanding influencing, communication and presentation skills

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