Senior Statistician in New York, NY

About DoubleClick DoubleClick develops tools that advertisers and publishers use to plan, execute and analyze on-line marketing programs. DoubleClick is an application service provider, handling a staggering 12 billion transactions per day, and managing up to 160,000+ hits per second on its global network. Our suite of products is driven by the DoubleClick Technology Group (DTG), comprised of over 300 IT professionals, located in New York, Colorado, Chicago, San Francisco and Europe. DTG is an agile software development shop, and employs a mix of open-source and third-party technologies including Java, C++, Perl, ASP.NET, Ab Initio and Oracle running on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms. In this rapidly growing industry, DoubleClick is both a market leader and innovator, creating an impressive number of new product releases every year. DoubleClick offers great health, dental and visual insurance, 401(k), generous time-off policy, and dot com benefits, such as casual dress, a great work environment, ping pong and pool tables. We pride ourselves with hiring passionate, self-motivated and innovative professionals who enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies and pushing those technologies to their limits. If this sounds exciting, come join us taking our world-class, high-volume systems to the next level! Responsibilities:

Understand business requirements for optimization solutions and perform applied research that will support these requirements.

Develop statistical and optimization algorithms and follow the algorithms through the entire software lifecycle: design, implementation, quality assurance, distribution.

Ability to conduct research independently or as part of a team: concept formulation, definition of metrics, determination of appropriate methodology, performance evaluation, and final research report. Research must be timely and reproducible.

Present statistical concepts and results of research to the broader business team

Understand all statistical/mathematical aspects of optimized ad delivery (i.e. DoubleClick's DART product) - including business purpose and deep system knowledge of DART

Work with client data to analyze performance and optimization issues.

Evangelize statistical/optimization methods to other areas of the business. Skills:

Knowledge and experience with statistical methods (regression & classification methods, discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, anova, time series, sampling, inferences, etc.)

Knowledge and experience with Optimization algorithms: Linear Programming, Quadratic programming, dynamic programming, simulation, etc.

Familiarity with machine learning / statistical learning theory: supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning. Model building - model assessment and selection, bias vs. variance tradeoff.

Programming skills: competency in several of the following: perl, java, C/C++, SQL, R/S-plus, SAS, shell scripting

Experience with UNIX/Linux

Experience in working with a large, enterprise computing system.

Experience working with massive (10^9) datasets.

Ability to assess business environment for additional opportunities

Excellent project management skills

Ability to work independently

Proactive

Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills

Excellent oral & written communication skills

Excellent presentation skills

Excellent consulting skills

Ability to establish key relationships with the business team and the engineering team Qualifications:

Advanced degree in a statistical/quantitative field, required.

Five years experience in a statistical/quantitative field, required

Three years experience conducting original research, required

Three years experience working with external clients in a business environment, required

Ability to travel up to twice a quarter, required

Knowledge of Digital Advertising desired. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here