Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist - Core Analytics & Science

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

Are you interested in driving business and product strategy? What about using data to answer difficult questions and come up with interesting insights? If so, then this is the job for you. As a Data Scientist in the CAS organization, you get to use your quantitative skill set, obsession and empathy towards customers and collaborative spirit to work closely with Product, Ops, Engineering, and Applied Scientists to provide data driven insights to find new opportunities to take our products to the next level.

What You'll Do

• Refine ambiguous questions and generate new hypotheses about the product through a deep understanding of the data, our customers, and our business
• Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions.
• Define how our teams measure success, by developing Key Performance Indicators and other user/business metrics, in close partnership with Product and other subject areas such as engineering, operations and marketing
• Collaborate with applied scientists and engineers to build and improve on the availability, integrity, accuracy, and reliability of data logging and data pipelines.
• Develop data-driven business insights and work with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities and recommend prioritization of product, growth, and optimization initiatives.

We've noticed that the title Data Scientist represents a variety of work across the industry. If you're more passionate about building machine learning (ML) or econometric models, please check out the Applied Scientist roles on our career page!

Basic Qualifications

• M.S. or Bachelors degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields. (If M.S. degree, a minimum of 1+ years of industry experience required and if Bachelor's degree, a minimum of 2+ years of industry experience as a Data Scientist or equivalent)
• Advanced SQL expertise
• Basic understanding of experimental design (such as A/B experiments) and statistical methods
• Ability and experience in extracting insights from data, and summarizing learnings / takeaways
• Experience with Excel and some dashboarding/data visualization (i.e. Tableau, Mixpanel, Looker, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degrees in Math, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Operation Research, Machine Learning or other quantitative field
• 5+ years industry experience in consumer facing data science
• Strong storytelling: distill interesting and hard-to-find insights into a compelling, concise data story
• Advanced experience with experimental design and statistical methods such as causal Inference.
• Ability to communicate effectively and manage relationships with partners coming from both technical and non-technical backgrounds