About DoubleVerify

DoubleVerify is the recognized market innovator with the technology & tools that accurately authenticate the quality of digital media & drive ad performance for the world's largest brands. DV provides media transparency & accountability to deliver the highest quality for maximum advertising performance. Since 2008, DV has helped hundreds of Fortune 500 companies gain the most from their media spend by delivering best in class solutions across the digital ecosystem that help build a better industry. Learn more at doubleverify.com.

Position Overview

The Classification Operations team plays a critical role in product development at DV by providing data & insights that help drive machine learning/AI initiatives. As a Content Labeling Associate on the team, youll work to ensure the quality of DV classifications by analyzing & labeling videos, images & other social media content, focusing on content that advertisers need to classify correctly to avoid topics like profanity, & target topics that are inline with advertisers target audience preferences & priorities. 

Youll work independently & collaboratively within the AI Curation team & other teams internationally to develop DVs classification technologies.

This is a great entry-level opportunity for someone whos interested in working in online media & content management. Youll build on your knowledge of the ad tech industry, the growing field of data labeling, & the online space across international markets. Youll also learn popular tools & the latest state of the art technologies such as Machine Learning, Computer Vision & Artificial intelligence tools, as well as valuable skills that will help meet the needs of top advertising clients across industries, & youll contribute towards the mission of making the digital ecosystem safer, more transparent & sustainable.

This position requires fluent understanding of the English & Spanish language (primarily text in english & text & audio in spanish).

A successful candidate must be:

• A critical thinker who can identify & describe themes & tone of content
• Comfortable seeing & talking about sometimes sensitive or explicit textual & visual content
• An independent worker, but can collaborate with a team when needed 
• Good at staying self-motivated & on task
• Possess strong attention to detail & QA/troubleshooting mindset
• Flexible in order to prioritize & manage work effectively
• A naturally curious learner with an interest in news, pop culture, & online trends
  
  

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Categorize, tag, label, & evaluate textual & visual data across web & social platforms
• Provide judgements for data labeling/annotating or classification based on independent interpretation of guidelines & policies
• Support development teams by providing labeled datasets for machine learning training & other initiatives
• Provide feedback & proactively identify issues to respective teams
  

Skills & Background

• Previous experience in a content moderation or content labeling position is highly advantageous 
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience, preferably in subject areas related to media, psychology, sociology, journalism, linguistics or information science
• High proficiency/fluent knowledge of English & Spanish 
  

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This will be a remote position but we will need you to either be based in San Jose, Costa Rica or be able to travel to San Jose, Costa Rica 2-3 times per year.