For over 25 years, Getty Images has embraced disruption and change; riding the digital wave to evolve from a fragmented, analog stock photo business into a multi-billion dollar, global e-commerce industry leader and trusted brand. The breadth and quality of our content has always allowed our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, eliciting more emotion and enabling more action.

 

Getty Images is the most trusted and esteemed source of visual content in the world available through its industry-leading sites www.gettyimages.com and www.istock.com. The Getty Images website serves creative, business and media customers in almost 200 countries and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and share powerful content from the world's best photographers and videographers.

 

Getty Images works with over 360,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept and the world's deepest digital archive of historic photography. With over 435 million assets, of which over 310 million are digitized, encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter.

 

Getty Images offers the most exclusive and unique creative and editorial visual content globally. The breadth and quality of our content allows our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, thereby eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world —whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Getty Images offers the highest quality and most diverse visual content, based on industry-leading expertise and innovation.

Role: Data Scientist – Search

Your Next Challenge:

• Research and build machine learning algorithms for search ranking,  leveraging our images, metadata, and/or customer interactions to significantly improve our customer’s image/video discovery experiences. 
• Develop and implement online and offline testing and validation methodologies  
• Partner closely with other data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, and search engineers to implement and deploy models in production  
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, design/research, and data science leaders  
• Recommend changes to our search ranking strategy presented in a clear manner to team members and leadership 
• Share your expertise by mentoring others on the team 

We’d Love to Hear From You If You Have:

• Proven experience building and validating search, personalization, recommendation, and/or newsfeed algorithms for customer-facing products 
• A minimum of 2 years validated experience 
• An understanding of the real-world advantages and drawbacks of various algorithms and the ability to measure success 
• Ability to handle ambiguity, priorities, and competing objectives. Experience solving highly technical problems 
• Hands-on experience with accessing data, Python, machine learning libraries, and deep learning libraries (ex: scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, scipy, TensorFlow, SQL, hive, spark, etc.).  
• Ability to write clean, understandable code that follows leading industry standards and practices and is well-documented, and to build easily reproducible models 
• An ability to consider biases that exist in the data and develop solutions to mitigate biases appropriately 
• Outstanding communication skills. Strong communication skills at all levels, including sophisticated technical solutions to non-experts 
• Open listener, ability to be open to many diverse voices and perspectives 
• You are clear, credible, and forward-thinking  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A Ph.D. or MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Sociology, Natural Sciences, or any other equivalent quantitative field is preferred 

This is a temporary, contract role with an expected duration of 5 to 6 months

We love character, authenticity, and integrity.

Excellence is our norm; we get better through endeavor, curiosity, and speed.

We love debate, but collaborating to solve problems for ourselves and our customers is everyone’s responsibility.

We will not tolerate rudeness.

We seek to understand biases in all forms. We call out biases and discrimination when observed and take action where responsible.

Diversity and inclusion are never done, but we are passionate in their pursuit.

We share goals and accountability; we and actively seek information and expertise; we make time for our peers.

With one voice and shared accountability.

We listen to, anticipate, and exceed customer needs, adapting as they evolve.

We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Women, gender-nonbinary, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

Getty Images is committed to providing Reasonable Accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please email RecruitingAccommodations@gettyimages.com.

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