Location: Canada

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Data Science

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Principal Data Scientist, Search and Personalization - United States or Canada (Remote)

Duration: Permanent

Location: United States or Canada (Remote)

Start: ASAP

Due to the current conditions of COVID-19, this key position will initially work from home, until such a time when we return to our office.

Who You Are:

• We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist to lead the development of our search, personalization, and recommendations. Using your deep machine learning expertise while considering the broader business context, you will lead, and guide our data scientists, and analysts team to develop industry-leading recommendations in visual search. This position will have a direct impact on the search and browse paths for millions of customers and drive key conversion metrics!

Your Next Challenge:

• Build industry-leading algorithms using our images, metadata, and/or customer interactions to significantly improve our customers’ image/video search and discovery experiences
• Lead, guide, and mentor data scientists and data analysts in formulating, and implementing our strategy
• Develop our technical ranking roadmap alongside product, team members, and leadership. Distilling customer requirements into problem definitions and identifying measures of success
• Develop and implement online and offline testing and validation methodologies
• Partner with data engineers, machine learning engineers, and search engineers to implement and deploy new ranking algorithms in the production process

What You'll Need:

• Proven expertise building and validating search, personalization, recommendation, and/or newsfeed algorithms for customer-facing products
• A minimum of 5 years validated experience
• Proven expertise as a technical lead providing mentorship and guidance to team members.
• A strong understanding of the real-world advantages and drawbacks of various algorithms and the ability to measure success
• Ability to handle ambiguity, priorities, and competing objectives. Experience solving highly technical problems
• Hands-on experience with accessing data, Python, machine learning libraries, and deep learning libraries (ex: scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, scipy, TensorFlow, SQL, hive, spark, etc.)
• Ability to write clean, understandable code that follows leading industry standards and practices and is well-documented, and to build easily reproducible models
• An ability to consider biases that exist in the data and develop solutions to mitigate biases appropriately
• Outstanding interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate at all levels, including explaining sophisticated technical solutions to non-experts
• Open listener, ability to be open to many diverse voices and perspectives
• You are clear, credible, and forward-thinking!
• A Ph.D. or MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Sociology, Natural Sciences, or any equivalent field is helpful

Mental and Physical Demands:

• A quiet location with reliable high-speed internet connectivity, environment suitable for professional work (desk, chair, external monitor, etc.)
• Frequent communication with others to exchange information
• Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary
• Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc
• Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment

Due to the current conditions and impact of Covid-19, this key position will initially work from home, until such a time we open our offices. At the time of the local office opening, employees and managers will partner to determine the work site location in line with our Flexible working policy.

Benefits at Getty Images

Health Insurance

We provide Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance for you and your family. We partner with Meritain (An Aetna Company), and CVS Caremark to provide you with two options for medical coverage - a POS plan and an HSA-qualified (Health Savings Account) Plan. The POS plan comes with a $200 per year Getty Images contribution to an FSA account. If you enroll in the HSA plan, Getty Images will give you $1400-$2400 per year to spend on any qualified health expenses. Dental insurance is available through Delta Dental. Vision Insurance is available through VSP. All full-time employees working at least 25 hours per week will become eligible for health benefits the 1st of the month following their date of hire. Contributions to health care accounts are prorated based on the date of hire. For more information on these benefits, you may request an electronic copy of our Benefits Guide.

Time off Work/life balance is important to us

We provide flexible time off and 10 sick days each calendar year. Additionally, we pay 4 weeks of fully-paid Parental Leave for new parents, with primary caregivers eligible for an additional 8 weeks of fully-paid leave.

Company Paid Holidays

Employees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations.

Disability and Life Insurance

We automatically enroll and pay for Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D) up to 2 times your annual salary. We also provide you with fully paid Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance.

Employee Assistance Program

Employees have access to free, confidential assistance for everyday problems such as stress management, financial coaching, marital or family issues, substance abuse, occupational problems, and referrals for legal, childcare, and eldercare services. Employees can seek additional discounts on other wellness activities such as travel, gym memberships, and sports! Through our EAP services, employees are also eligible for 3 free counseling visits and life coaching sessions.

401(k)

Start saving for retirement! Getty Images matches up to 4% of your deferred compensation, with immediate vesting – that means all of Getty Images employer match money is automatically yours – with no waiting period!

Learning & Growth

We value continuous learning and development to help everyone develop their skills. Enjoy mentorship, curated training & more.

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Covid-19 Company Statement:

_Getty Images does not require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but vaccination or testing may be mandated by the relevant local laws with which Getty Images will comply. If this position involves contact with third parties, attendance on site for events, travel and/or work in our offices, those actions will be subject to any to relevant local laws, venue or customer requirements, or travel requirements regarding vaccines or testing (and exemptions thereto). _

US Specific:

Getty Images does not require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but vaccination or testing has been mandated by the Biden administration and that mandate applies to our US workforce. If this position involves contact with third parties, attendance on site for events, travel and/or work in our offices, those actions will be subject to any to relevant local laws, venue or customer requirements, or travel requirements regarding vaccines or testing (and exemptions thereto).

Who We Are:

For over 25 years, Getty Images has embraced disruption and change; riding the digital wave to evolve from a fragmented, analog stock photo business into a multi-billion dollar, global e-commerce industry leader and trusted brand. The breadth and quality of our content has always allowed our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, eliciting more emotion and enabling more action.

Help us move the world with images!

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Getty Images works with over 360,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept and the world's deepest digital archive of historic photography. With over 440 million assets , of which over 320 million are digitized , encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter.

Getty Images offers the most exclusive and unique creative and editorial visual content globally. The breadth and quality of our content allows our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, thereby eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world —whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Getty Images offers the highest quality and most diverse visual content , based on industry-leading expertise and innovation.

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