Data Scientist

The client has two roles open for the Data Scientists on the team with one of a Sr Data Scientist role who are independent, creative and can coach the younger teammates. The other role is of a mid/ jr level resource. For both roles strong math skills are important to be able to dig deep and offer alternate views and recommendations to the current processes. 

As a Data Scientist on the team, you will: 

• Partner with Product, Insights, Strategy, and Engineering teams to understand the various client needs and the company’s competitive edge and deliver scalable and correct solutions. 
• Be a resident expert in statistics, machine learning, and the design of statistical experiments. 
• Model technical excellence and mentor other data scientists. 
• Understand the team mission, propose new initiatives and metrics, and be able to advocate for your suggestions. 
• Maintain communication with our cross-functional partners and be able to present your findings effectively to an executive audience and cross-functional teams.

Requirements:

• MS in Statistics or Quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Physics, Math plus 5+ years work experience in stats, data science, or tech
• Experience using data science to impact product strategy 
• Experience mentoring data scientists
• Experience evangelizing best practices and process improvements on your team
• Industry experience using machine learning,  A/B testing, methods for experimental design, and causal inference
• Adept using SQL, Python, and Jupyter notebooks

Nice to Haves:

• PhD in Statistics or Quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Physics, Math plus 3+ years work experience in stats, data science, or tech
• Record of writing and optimizing code in a production environment
• Record of coaching others to improve technical outputs
• Excellent communication skills: able to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences from reports to peers to executives and to non-technical audiences

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