# Manager, Data & Media Science at Known

- Company: Known
- What the company does: Known is your pocket matchmaker: a swipeless dating app that gets to know you first, makes one considered introduction at a time, and helps plan the date. Backed by Pear VC.
- Company website: https://www.knowndating.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $135K to $150K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/known/jobs/8728901002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/known-manager-data-and-media-science/

## About the role

Known’s Media Science team uses advanced analytics, machine learning, statistics, and algorithms to plan and optimize advertising dollars. We partner with our clients to translate their business goals into meaningful metrics, and buy media across all channels to drive those target outcomes.

## What they're looking for

- A degree from a well-regarded college or university, preferably a Masters or PhD. STEM degrees are also preferred
- 3+ years of hands-on experience doing quantitative analysis, modeling, optimization and/or statistics. Experience using Python and SQL
- A desire to work on advertising challenges that require flexibility in approach -- everything from data strategy, on-the-fly analytics, statistics, machine learning, and algorithms
- An ability to strategically translate business challenges into quantitative problems, and solve them by whatever means are most appropriate and effective, which may not always be strict machine learning
- An eagerness to learn foundational knowledge and skills rapidly
- A commitment to managing the quality & accuracy of analytics, ensuring high standards with your and others’ work

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