EQUALS is seeking a technical builder to own their systematic marketing engine. You will treat paid acquisition like a quant desk, applying advanced mathematics and frontier AI to optimize a live portfolio across major social platforms. This hybrid role blends cultural intuition with rigorous experimentation to drive global user growth through music.
Research Scientist (Growth) at EQUALS
EQUALS is seeking a Research Scientist (Growth) to lead their systematic marketing engine in London. With 1 million monthly active users and backing from the investors behind Spotify and Facebook, EQUALS is redefining consumer social through music. You’ll treat paid acquisition like a quant desk, leveraging frontier AI and advanced mathematics to optimize growth across global platforms. If you are a technical builder who loves blending data with culture, this is your chance to join a world-class team from Apple, Nike, and Instagram and shape the next big social network.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£60k-120k + Equity
Company
EQUALS
Role overview
Equals is the world’s largest social music network with over a million users, growing exponentially month to month. We connect people through the music they love - fans discover new people, collect tracks, and connect in artist chatrooms. Our platform serves users across the world with real-time chat, music streaming, and a recommendation engine that matches people by musical taste.
What you will do
- Manage and optimize a multi-platform paid spend portfolio across TikTok, Meta, and Snap using real-time rebalancing systems instead of manual spreadsheets.
- Deploy generative AI and autonomous agents to iterate on creative content and marketing tooling at a pace no traditional team can match.
- Design scientific measurement frameworks for incrementality, attribution, and causal inference to replace gut-feel reporting with rigorous, actionable experimentation.
Who this is a fit for
- Strong quantitative background in mathematics, statistics, or machine learning, with a passion for applying these disciplines to messy, real-world consumer data.
- Fearless early adopter of AI who can bridge the gap between creative hooks and technical model reasoning to unlock new growth capabilities.
- Pragmatic builder with a bias for action, capable of shipping, measuring, and iterating quickly within a fast-paced, high-stakes startup environment.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-traction social network with 1 million MAU that is outperforming platforms like Instagram and Snapchat in engagement and usage.
- Work alongside an elite team of creatives and technologists from Apple, Nike, and Instagram, supported by legendary investors who funded Spotify and Facebook.
- Build a first-of-its-kind marketing engine from the ground up, treating cultural trends as mathematical optimization problems using the latest AI models.
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