Technical Manager (Data Science)

About Knorex

Founded in 2009, Knorex (https://knorex.com) is a technology company that provides programmatic advertising products and solutions to marketers to connect in real-time to their desired audience worldwide. Through its flagship universal marketing platform, Knorex XPO unifies the connectivity to each of the major marketing channels including social media, search, connected TVs/OTTs, video, audio, display/native, and email, in one place, while simplifying execution and optimization across these channels through AI automation. Knorex operates across the US and APAC.

Why Knorex

We are constantly on the lookout to recruit the best and the brightest - from engineering to sales to account management to operations and HR.

Knorex offers you many different opportunities to scale your ambition and creativity far and beyond. We embrace a dynamic and pragmatic way of doing things, setting ourselves up for long term achievement yet relentlessly focused on delivering the short term goals. If you love the joy of building stuffs and seeing them grow, growing yourself and others in the process, and challenging yourself to do stuffs that you once thought impossible, we invite you to explore a career with us.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will be expected to possess solid experience in applying machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build highly accurate models. You need to acquire a deep technical understanding of the platform, work with other team members to ensure the timely delivery of the planned tasks, and critically assess and monitor the efficiency and/or effectiveness of the models. You also need to possess excellent communication and leadership skills to lead the team to the next level.

• Manage our data science team to solve challenging engineering tasks specifically relating to digital advertising and real-time bidding
• Collaborate with other teams to transform technologies, research work into prototypes or products
• Guide junior members to integrate research deliverables into existing systems
• Work with the management team to devise product roadmaps and KPIs
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for prototyping
• Evaluate feedback and challenging issues gathered by the business and technical teams and transform them into tractable problems to resolve
• Implement the security mechanisms in accordance with procedures/guidelines
• Enable experience sharing and information exchange related to information security incident handling
• Safeguard of confidential information within Knorex as well as information entrusted to us by external parties

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in at least one scripting or object-oriented language (e.g. Python, Java, ...)
• Solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning techniques
• Strong hands-on experience with Tensorflow/PyTorch and other machine learning toolkits such as Scikit-learn or Spark MLlib
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills as demonstrated by previous leadership experience
• Excellent written and spoken communication in English
• Experience deploying large-scale machine learning systems in the cloud environment is a strong plus
• Pick up new technology or new concepts fast, excellent problem-solving skills
• Good process management and excellent follow-through
• Prioritize tasks to meet multiple deadlines. Work productively even under pressure
• Possess a good work ethic and attitude
• Good awareness about information security and confidentiality

Benefits

• 14 Annual leaves, full SHUI & Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage
• Macbook provided
• 13rd salary
• Personal Development Fund for courses and materials.
• Opportunity to attend international conferences.
• Ample opportunities to grow. You get to propose your own ideas and see it through.
• Work with passionate, talented and driven colleagues who get things done
• Cross-country teams with passionate, talented and driven colleagues.
• Challenging and exciting problems that await you to solve.