Animaj is a global entertainment company nurturing, producing and licensing animated stories, characters and fictional universes for every kid.

They want to collaborate with the top independent YouTube creators and help them grow their channels and stories into global brands.

Their business model involves acquiring, elevating, and scaling high potential intellectual properties, as well as distributing its programming to over 100 streaming platforms, including Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, Sky, Roku, and others - in addition to content licensing, merch, original productions, and brand partnerships -.

They are backed by a world-class team of investors including XAnge, Daphni, and some of the best tech business angels ; they have just closed a € 17M pre-seed round.

Job Desc

At Animaj we’re developing cutting-edge machine learning based engines to better identify business opportunities, to understand audiences and entertainment content trends, and to recommend optimizations for their channels/content. These engines are powered by massive amounts of data on kids entertainment content that we collect from several sources (including Youtube APIs and social media) and that we ingest in our data platform.

Animaj is looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to bring these machine learning capabilities into our data platform.

You will report to the Head of Data, and collaborate closely with our data engineers as well as M&A and growth teams.

This is a great opportunity to join an entrepreneurial adventure at an early stage, spearheading innovation for the whole company..

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, evaluate models for business opportunities sourcing, audience/content understanding and channels optimization (eg channel pricing, CPM estimation, topic extraction from videos, audience interests, reverse-engineer YT recommendations) leveraging data from several sources (Youtube API, social networks, etc)
• Perform explorations to understand what drives kids entertainmentchannels/videos performance on Youtube
• Design and run AB tests and experimentation to identify optimization levers for our Youtube channels/videos
• Manage machine learning models in production (logging, monitoring, alerting)
• Feed models outputs into our data pipelines to enrich our data models
• Collaborate with our data engineers to specify what data points/sources should be acquired

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing, training and deploying in production machine learning models
• Masters or PhD in machine learning or related field
• You’re up to date with the most recent models and techniques in NLP, RL, DL fields and know how to best apply them to concrete business problems
• Excellent coding skills in Python
• Ability to formalize, analyze and solve complexproblems
• Demonstrated strong autonomy, proactiveness, pragmatism and technical leadership
• Ability to explain complex scientific and technical concepts to any audience clearly
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• English proficiency and experience working in an international environment

Our Process

• First Interview with our CEO
• Case study to prepare at home
• Focused Interview with our Head of Data
• Final Interview with one of the co-founders

Benefits

• Stock Options - We want all of our early employees to participate fully in Animaj’s success.
• Health Care - We provide totally subsidized/covered health care.
• Remote Policy - Dedicated to your work-life balance, we offer 2 days remote and 3 days per week at the office. Why ? Because we think that magic occurs when people work together, but we also believe that there are times when you need to be able to work uninterrupted.
• Work environment - A stimulating workplace that fosters creativity, autonomy and leadership.