Senior Data Scientist

Welcome to Homa, the gaming technology lab that is taking the industry by storm! Our team of over 230 people, hailing from more than 35 different countries, is dedicated to empowering mobile game creators worldwide to bring their creative ideas to the top charts.

Our Homa Lab platform offers a comprehensive suite of cutting-edge tools that allow developers to stay on top of the latest trends, test new features in real-time, and easily distribute and monetize their games. Our success speaks for itself - our apps have been downloaded 1.8 billion times!

Since our inception, we have raised $165 million in total from prominent investors, including Headline, Northzone, Eurazeo, Singular, Quadrille Capital, Fabric Ventures, and Bpifrance. We have also received support from renowned business angels, such as the founders of King, Sorare, and Spotify.

But what truly sets Home apart is our team. We are a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds, countries, and cultures, all driven by a shared passion for taking over the gaming industry. Our team is rapidly growing, attracting industry veterans eager to help us deliver the next generation of Homa’s games. Joining Homa means becoming part of a dedicated team creating innovative and high-performing games for players worldwide.

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact in the gaming industry, then Homa is the perfect place for you. Join us and let's create the future of gaming together!

Meet the team 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧

You will join the Data department organized into:

- A Data Platform team with 5 Data Engineers responsible for ingesting large amounts of data from multiple different sources, creating and maintaining a core data model which aims at making data standardized, reliable and easily available

- A Data Science and ML Platform team with 3 Data Scientists / ML Engineer working on ML-driven data products: Autobidder for User Acquisition, N-Testing for experimentation

- An Advanced Analytics & Data Science team with 7 Data Analysts and Scientists exploiting our data for:

• Game Analytics
• User Acquisition and Marketing Analytics
• Market Inteligence Analytics
• Ops Analytics

Role and Missions — What you will do 🚀

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will join our Data Science and ML Platform team to develop new predictive ML models, optimize bidding strategies and use segmentation algorithms. Working closely with the User Acquisition & Product teams, you will have a direct business impact on our marketing tech strategy as well as our personalization and segmentation objective in game.

Working alongside our Associate Director in charge of Data Science, Machine Learning and AI, you will be in charge of:

• Building a comprehensive understanding of the business problems we aim to solve by working closely with stakeholders (User Acquisition team, Product Managers) to gather requirements and define the scope of data science projects
• Developing and branching ML Models
• Creating ML models for Marketing Tech (User Acquisition and Monetization team) and/or Game Tech (A/B Testing, Segmentation).
• Work closely with ML engineers to ensure scalable and robust models following ML Ops principles.
• Integrate your models into the product code base following coding best practices.
• Own performance of models
• Continuously monitor and optimize them to ensure they meet business needs and performance standards.
• Implement feedback loops to improve model accuracy and efficiency over time.
• Identify and solve complex ad hoc problems (e.g. predicting users Lifetime Value, optimizing marketing campaigns, users segmentation).

Requirements

Having prior experience in designing, building, and deploying ML models based on tabular data, you want to join a diverse team composed of mobile gaming enthusiasts. If you recognize yourself in the following description, you're the one!

• Significant experience with Deep Learning (Tensorflow / Pytorch) and Gradient Boosting libraries (LightGBM / XGBoost)
• Significant experience with at least one of the top Cloud providers (GCP, Azure, AWS)
• Strong knowledge of ML concepts, algorithms and methodologies. Ability to switch between gradient boosting models and neural networks depending on the use case.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment with various stakeholders (tech, business, product, marketing)
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong will to deeply understand the business topics of the mobile gaming industry, the company strategy, our products and their fit within the company’s daily operations.
• Fluency in English

Our Culture—Who we are🪐

At Homa, we are building a community of brilliant talents. We believe that true innovation comes from diversity and collaboration, and that's why we prioritize brainpower and determination over formal education. So if you have the talent, energy and motivation, there is no obstacle to your success here.

As the creative experts behind the platform, we provide developers with the data they need to bring their ideas to life. Our team lives by three central values that guide everything we do:

✨Ambition: we're not afraid to tackle difficult challenges and set our goals extremely high. We're on a mission to revolutionize an industry dominated by well-established companies, and we won't stop until we succeed.

✨Humility: we leave our pride & ego aside. We are always ready to lend a helping hand, celebrate each other's successes, and learn from our failures. As Mr. Lamar said, "Sit down. Be humble."

✨Curiosity: we keep our minds open and never stop learning. We believe that questioning everything is the best way to stay ahead of the curve, and we encourage all our team members to stay curious and never stop exploring new ideas.

At Homa, you'll be challenged, supported, and inspired every day, and we can't wait to see what you bring to the table.

Benefits

While success is its own reward, here are some of the benefits that come with working at Homa:

• We offer essential benefits in France and specific locations, including health insurance, meal vouchers, public transport subsidies, childcare benefits, and life insurance
• If you're interested in working from our newly renovated Paris HQ with a rooftop garden and WeWork amenities, we have a desk waiting for you
• You will be working in English with our international team of top-tier talents from 35+ countries
• You will have bi-annual reviews with your manager to reflect on your performance, celebrate wins, and receive constructive feedback
• You will be able to attend diverse team events and Workations (the famous company-wide Homa trip).