Director Of Machine Learning

Job Description

REPORTS TO: Senior Director of Engineering
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Be both a highly technical, hands-on coder and effective people manager.
• Communicate cross-functionally and drive engineering efforts.
• Hold your own in technical discussion, be a subject matter expert, and have strategic influence.
• Effectively coach, mentor and guide the technical and professional development of the members of the team.
• Scale the team up by sourcing and hiring both externally and internally, and keep a super high bar while doing so!
• Work as the lead ML to build a robust and scalable ML platform using up-to-date tech stack.
• Identify new data sources and features and collect large data sets to build new models.
• Design and implement end-to-end solutions using Machine Learning, Optimization, and other advanced computer science technologies, and own live deployments to drive advertising conversion.
• Develop and maintain the necessary infrastructure to run and maintain the algorithms.
• Develop a feedback system to improve the selection of features for the algorithms.

QUALIFICATIONS
• BS, MS or PhD in computer science, engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of software(ML) engineering experience, including hands-on technical management.
• You've led a team of 10+ engineers, and have 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• You have experience formulating a team's technical strategy and roadmap; you've collaborated and partnered effectively with several other teams.
• You are comfortable diving into the technical aspects of various parts of the ML and backend system.
• You can provide a strong technical vision for systems and infrastructure teams.
• You have successfully taken projects from inception to production.
• Experience with both machine learning and building scalable production services.
• Experience using machine learning libraries or platforms, including Tensorflow, Caffe, Theanos, Scikit-Learn,or ML Lib for production or commercial products.
• You have expertise in one or more object-oriented languages, including Python, Go, Java, or C++, and an eagerness to learn more.
• Experience with distributed storage and database systems, including SQL or NoSQL, MySQL, or Cassandra.
• A strong desire to learn the details of advanced machine learning algorithms.
• Ability to communicate effectively between Product managers, business teams, data analysts and production engineers, both in code and conversation.
• Ability to solve complex business problems and apply machine learning to optimize critical business metrics.
• Strong adherence to metrics driven development, with a disciplined and analytical approach to product development.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience in stream processing-Storm, Spark, Flink etc.- and graph processing technologies.
• Experience working with AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience of working with advertising platforms.

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®. The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren't the only ones that can level-up. We're always looking for ways to champion each other and make what's already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications needs to be in English.

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Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $154,100.00 - $285,084.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all US locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp3xn4-3-139-107-241-42 in your application.