Data Scientist London (Hybrid) Circa £45,000 - £60,000 Permanent Full time / Part time Closing Date: Wednesday 5th March 2025 We currently have an opportunity for a Data Scientist to join our team. This role is open to flexible working, with 21 hours per week a minimum. The ASA is the UK s regulator of advertising across all media, including online. Our work includes taking proactive action against misleading, harmful, offensive or otherwise irresponsible ads and acting on complaints. Our Data Science team uses data and machine learning to proactively monitor online advertising and is responsible for our Active Ad Monitoring system, which captures and processes more than 3 million ads each month, allowing us to respond rapidly and effectively to important issues. We are seeking someone with prior professional experience working with complex datasets to join this team. Reporting to the Head of Data Science, in this role you will work with the ads captured by the ASA s Active Ad Monitoring system. You will work with images, videos and especially the text of ads from social media, search and web display. You will collaborate with experts across a range of advertising sectors to understand their needs. You will work primarily in Python to perform analysis to extract insight about prevalence of potential issues and help inform priorities. You will also train machine learning models and use LLM-based tools to filter large volumes of ads to find those that are relevant, or that ..... full job details .....