At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead AI products and manage a team of data scientists to optimise advertising performance.
- Company: Join LoopMe, an innovative AI company transforming brand advertising with measurable results.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, 25 days leave, wellness support, and learning opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with significant career growth and collaboration across global teams.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the adtech space while leading cutting-edge AI initiatives.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in data science and machine learning, with leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
About Loop Me
Loop Me is an AI company solving one of advertising's hardest problems: making brand advertising actually measurable — and making it perform.
Our platform runs patented machine learning models across billions of consumer signals in real time, optimising campaigns toward outcomes like purchase intent, brand lift, and foot traffic rather than proxy metrics like clicks.
The result is 2–5x better performance than industry benchmarks, at scale.
We operate a high-load programmatic infrastructure — processing millions of ad requests per second with sub-200ms response times globally.
This isn't a layer on top of someone else's stack; it's built from the ground up, in-house, by the team you'd be joining.
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, we now have 400+ people across 19 cities and have sustained 40% revenue CAGR since 2018.
The engineering problems here are real, the ownership is genuine, and the scale is significant.
The opportunity
You own Loop Me's AI throttling system and lead AI products across the business — a senior role combining technical ownership, product ownership, and commercial partnership.
You lead a team of four within Loop Me's 17-person Data Science organisation, working directly with commercial, operations, product, and engineering teams and reporting measurable impact to the SLT.
The wider Data Science team — led by Chief Data Scientist Dr Leonard Newnham — operates as a single team across London, Poland, and Ukraine, with a track record of publishing award-winning research in automated bidding.
This role reports to the Chief Data Scientist.
What you'll do
- Own Loop Me's AI throttling system end to end, covering roadmap, modelling strategy, release planning, measurement and production performance.
- Lead and develop a team of four data scientists and ML engineers, setting priorities and maintaining high technical standards.
- Own the full product lifecycle for AI products, from opportunity identification through launch, monitoring and iteration.
- Partner with commercial teams and clients to understand their needs and coordinate releases with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Partner with operations teams to embed AI products safely and measurably into day-to-day business processes.
- Establish clear, evidence-led reporting on progress, risks and measurable commercial impact for senior leadership.
- Develop practical business recommendations by turning ambiguous commercial problems into testable data science questions.
- Manage technical quality by reviewing model logic, system design and code where needed.
- What you'll bring
Essential
- Strong commercial experience in data science, machine learning or applied AI, ideally including production systems at significant scale in an adtech environment.
- A track record of owning AI/ML products end to end, from initial idea through production release and measured business impact
- Experience leading, coaching or managing data scientists, ML engineers or closely related technical teams.
- Deep understanding of experimentation, causal measurement, model monitoring and the practical realities of production ML
- Strong Python, SQL and data engineering literacy, with the ability to go deep technically when required.
- Nice to have
- Experience with adtech, real-time bidding, DSPs, SSPs, throttling, pacing or auction systems
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical systems to commercial, operations and senior leadership teams.
- Experience with Google Cloud, Docker, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Elastic Search, Click House or similar production infrastructure
- Experience owning product roadmaps, release governance or cross-functional delivery across distributed teams and time zones.
- What we can offer
- Bonus
- Hybrid working; meaning you'll spend 3 days a week in our Farringdon office
- 25 days annual leave, plus the Bank Holidays
- 1 month work-from-anywhere
- Annual Wellness Day
- Health Shield; a cash-back health plan for things like dental, optical, physio and wellbeing
- Access to Thrive; accessible mental health support all in one app
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension
- Loop Me Gives Back Day
- Learning & development support, including internal mobility and bi-annual promotion cycles
- To apply
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AVP Data Science employer: LoopMe Limited
LoopMe is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth, offering a dynamic work culture in the heart of Farringdon. With generous benefits such as 25 days of annual leave, a wellness day, and access to mental health support, employees are empowered to thrive both personally and professionally. The opportunity to lead a talented team while collaborating closely with senior leadership makes this role not only impactful but also rewarding for those seeking meaningful contributions in finance.
