Machine Learning Team Lead

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

As a Team Leader on the advertiser side ML group in our TLV Office, you’ll play a vital role in shaping how user intent is modeled at scale and how rich behavioral data is transformed into smarter recommendations. You will lead the design and evolution of large-scale Deep Learning models that directly improve advertiser performance and marketplace efficiency. By guiding team members and driving technical direction, you’ll turn modeling gaps into scalable production solutions. Your work will influence how millions of users discover content and how advertisers achieve measurable impact.

To Thrive In This Role, You'll Need

• Advanced academic training (MSc/PhD) with strong grounding in machine learning, optimization, and statistical modeling
• Strong Machine Learning Modelling Experience (6+ years)
• Production-Grade ML Engineering Experience
• Managerial or Technical Leadership Experience
• Experience Driving Measurable Business Impact Through Modeling
• Experience leveraging agent-based coding tools to accelerate development, experimentation, and code quality in ML systems
  
  

Bonus Points If You Have

Experience with Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Lead the design and evolution of Taboola’s models
• Own end-to-end ML delivery in production
• Lead and develop ML engineers
• Translate marketplace objectives into modeling strategy
• Play a part of Taboola’s tech organization’s growth in the agentic development era
  
  

Why Taboola?

About

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking)
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.
  
  

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.