About the job
impact.com is a leading platform in commerce partnership marketing. The company helps brands discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the customer lifecycle. Their products bring together affiliates, influencers, content publishers, and brand advocates into a single system. Over 5,000 brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, use impact.com to manage more than 350,000 partnerships worldwide. Learn more about impact.com.
Role overview
The Senior Data Scientist, Programmatic Algorithms, joins the Programmatic Experience Group in Columbus, OH. This position focuses on designing and deploying machine learning models that optimize yield, pricing, and inventory allocation at scale. The work sits at the intersection of data science, platform engineering, and marketplace economics.
What you will do
- Design and implement machine learning models to improve yield, pricing, and inventory allocation in a large-scale programmatic marketplace.
- Architect data pipelines and engineer features that drive platform performance.
- Deploy real-time inference systems that enable rapid decision-making.
- Work across the entire model lifecycle, from initial architecture through deployment.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Programmatic Delivery Engine Engineering teams.
How you will work
- Take ownership of projects with a high level of craftsmanship and autonomy.
- Balance analytical rigor with practical engineering instincts.
- Contribute directly to aligning advertiser performance with publisher monetization in the programmatic marketplace.
Collaboration
This role involves close partnership with cross-functional teams, including Product, Data Science, and Engineering. Significant autonomy is expected, along with a genuine interest in both data science and machine learning engineering.
