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About Rokt

Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology, helping companies seize the full potential of every transaction moment to grow revenue and acquire new customers at scale. Live Nation, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, Staples, Lands End, and HelloFresh are among the more than 2,500 leading global businesses and advertisers that use Rokt's solutions to drive more value through every transaction by offering highly relevant messages to their customers at the moment they are most likely to convert.

With our December 2022 secondary transaction, Rokts valuation increased to $2.4 Billion. We are expanding rapidly and globally operating in 14 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with the largest office in NYC and a major R&D hub in Sydney. With 50% annual growth and a vibrant company culture, Rokt has been listed in Great Places to Work in the US and Australia. Our award-winning culture is guided by our eight core values: smart with humility, own the outcomes, force for good, conquer new frontiers, enjoy the ride, raise the bar, communicate with impact, and disagree then commit. These values help us attract, engage, and develop the right talent around the globe and ensure we foster an environment that helps us all do our best work. Keen to join a fast-growing company and a vibrant culture? Learn more at (link removed).

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. We are expanding rapidly in our brand new R&D center in Seattle. We are passionate about using intelligent systems to improve the transaction moment for retailers everywhere. Come join us and build the future!

The Role

The Senior Director of Machine Learning will build, grow, and lead the cutting-edge research of Rokts Machine Learning team. You will lead the team in the research, experimentation, and implementation of new ML models and approaches which are mission-critical for Rokt. Your team will also own the foundation for data, infrastructure, and tooling that accelerates ML experimentation at Rokt. As a machine learning thought leader and executive partner, you will identify key strategic opportunities and product improvements, helping to solidify Rokts position as the leader in automation.

Responsibilities

• Shape, grow, and lead exceptional teams that deliver novel, strategic ML solutions for Rokt's product offerings.
• Leverage your ML industry expertise to introduce new technologies and processes and drive innovation within Rokts product offerings.
• Lead the development and deployment of machine learning models for content. understanding, embeddings, recommender systems, and ranking.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of user behavior, preferences, and engagement patterns through the use of ML.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, design, and data science to identify and prioritize opportunities for machine learning.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the machine learning team.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand their needs and develop solutions that drive business outcomes.
• Keep up to date with the latest research in machine learning and related fields and explore opportunities to apply new techniques to our platform.

Requirements

Requirements

• Deep technical background in applied machine learning, including deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and data engineering.
• An eye for product and relentlessly putting the customer at the heart of your strategic decisions.
• Previous experience in building and leading ML teams in creating end-to-end machine learning pipelines, including algorithms and tooling.
• Nice-to-have: A published researcher with a strong track record of academic experience in ML and AI.

Benefits

• Work with the greatest talent in town(link removed) Our recruitment process is tough but diligent. Were constantly aiming to implement our value of raise the bar and set high standards for our Roktstars. This is essential in our high-performing, high-grow culture where we strive to bring in the brightest and best talent. Our teams thrive by challenging the status quo and we encourage all of our teams to unleash their desire to achieve something bigger.
• Join a community. At Rokt were a community of curious explorers. Were not afraid of venturing into uncharted territories. We work together as one single, aligned team. We value diversity and transparency which is why we support a number of internal employee resource groups including an EDI steering committee, Rainbow Rokts that empowers our LGBTQIA+ Roktstars, Womxn who Rokt that promotes gender equality in tech, and more.
• Accelerate your career. We want you to unleash your full potential. This is why we have an annual Level Up allowance of $5,000 that gives Roktstars the ability to take courses, attend events, go to training, and more to help our great employees become even better leaders.
• Take a break. When you work hard, we know you also need to rest. We offer generous time off and parental leave policies, as well as mental health and wellness days for all employees. We even incentivize individuals to utilize their PTO with High 5 days, an additional 5 days of PTO when youve used 75% of your allotted annual paid leave. We also offer a paid Roktstar Sabbatical for employees who have been with us for varying tenures.
• Stay happy and healthy(link removed) In order to unleash our potential, we want to ensure youre able to keep your wellbeing a priority. This means you can enjoy a well-balanced, catered lunch in the office along with healthy snacks. As part of your wellbeing benefits, we offer a wellness stipend so you can enjoy the gym on us! In the US, access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and get fully funded premium health insurance for your entire family!
• Become a shareholder. All Roktstars have stock options. If we succeed, everyone is rewarded.
• See the world! We want our Roktstars to enjoy the ride. As we aim to bring meaning and fun to our everyday work, we host global all-staff events in amazing locations (Phuket, Thailand in January 2020, Hawaii in May 2022, and Whistler in 2023). As we strive to build a community of curious explorers, we also offer generous relocation packages for those interested in moving to another Rokt office. We have bustling offices in great cities including: Seattle, New York, Sydney, London, and Tokyo.
• We believe were better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (most teams are in the office 3-4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.
• We believe in equality(link removed) Rokt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we know our collective strength comes from how different we all are. We encourage you to apply for one of our open rolesirrespective of socio-economic status or background, age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, pregnancy, carer/family responsibilities, national and social origin, political opinion, marital, veteran, or disability status.

Salary - $260,000 - $300,000 base salary plus equity