Staff Data Scientist, Lead Generation

WHO WE ARE:

• Launch Potato is a discovery and conversion company turning attention into real outcomes for partners in finance, travel, and entertainment.
• We run profitable and bootstrapped with a remote-first team across 18 countries.

YOUR ROLE:

• Build the models that decide which carrier each auto insurance shopper sees on our click wall.
• Own buying models behind media spend, held to ROAS, and put carrier conversion data to work in production.
• Work hands-on end to end, from framing problems with the business to deployment and monitoring.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:

• By day 60, you run our insurance marketplace media buying on your own.
• By year end, click wall serving, production conversion models, and automated marketplace bidding are scaled and trusted.
• Models hold up through drift and changing objectives while output the business uses without rework.

MUST HAVE:

• 5+ years of hands-on applied data science with measurable business impact.
• Experience driving paid media decisions with models, plus expert Python and SQL.
• Ability to explain models down to loss function and architecture, and handle feedback loops, late labels, and drift.