If you are motivated by a fast growing company where you can really make an impact, enjoy the fully-remote, small-company lifestyle, and are comfortable with the rewards and challenges of working with a diverse array of business, technical, and analytical problems, then we would love to work with you!

The Role

OB Media is seeking a quantitative-minded professional to work in our online advertising business. If you are motivated by solving complex, multivariate problems, enjoy the small-company lifestyle, and are comfortable with the rewards and challenges of working with a diverse array of business, technical, and analytical problems, then please read on.

About the job:

Internet advertising is a marketplace. As with all marketplaces, the inefficiencies provide opportunities for arbitrage, which is our business. The Data Analyst will join a team of media buyers, technologists, account managers, and strategists, to provide a strong statistical backstop to our efforts to grow and scale our business. As Analysts mature, they are welcomed to provide insights on external business efforts, and to help us identify and test new opportunities.

Here are some examples of what Analysts may expect to have accomplished after their first year:

• Gained a comprehensive understanding of our often complex business environment, learning the google and microsoft marketplaces, and the skills needed to interrogate related data.
• Established repeatable testing protocols for advertising optimization, using standard techniques such as A/B and multivariate testing, constructed in such a way that they can be used by non-quantitative personnel without loss of statistical rigor.
• Contributed to the development of manual processes and automated systems, by helping design insightful statistical analyses, or predictive / prescriptive machine-learning algorithms to better solve multi-armed bandit and knapsack-style problems.
• Helped ongoing company efforts to manage our massive, often noisy, and continuously changing, data streams.

We give team members a fair degree of autonomy in accomplishing these goals. A Data Analyst might choose to research and implement a pre-existing A/B testing solution, or they might exercise their programmer brain by building a customized solution using Databricks Notebooks (Jupyter Notebooks integrated with Spark). As a small company of fairly autonomous operators, we are happy to provide the tools needed to get the job done right.

We are not fond of the tyranny of bulleted skills lists, but here are a few that would help candidates succeed:

• A degree in a STEM discipline, or a good number of related classes
• We'd also accept the self-taught who show strong contributions to open source projects and/or kaggle competitions
• Experience using SQL to interface with database
• Some basic understanding of internet technology
• Preference will be given to candidates with strong coding skills (Python, R, Spark, Stata, etc)

Benefits

• 100% Employer Paid Health, Dental and Vision coverage for Employees
• 401(k) at a 4% match
• 4 Weeks PTO
• Performance based bonuses

About OBMedia

We are a small, profitable company that has been working remotely long before it became trendy. Growing from a startup in 2001 to one of the most trusted and established Ad Networks in the industry, we partner with some of the biggest names in tech to connect publishers, relevant advertisers and diverse audiences.

OBMedia is a subsidiary of the Enero Group, a publicly-held, international network of marketing and communications firms listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

The Team

We are a growing, fully remote, team of media buyers, analysts, engineers, and strategic thinkers that enjoy the autonomy and innovation of a startup environment while enjoying the stability provided under a larger corporate umbrella. Located around the world, we are united in our passion to continually learn, grow, and build. We have been doing this successfully since 2001, and we’re pretty good at it. We are always looking for people who help us be better.

Internet advertising is a complex and fast paced marketplace and we compete in many areas of it while constantly exploring new opportunities. Doing so successfully requires a dedicated team, working together to find, and take advantage of, those opportunities. We’ve been doing this successfully since 2001, and we’re pretty good at it. We are looking for people who help us be better.