Agile methodologies, Big Data Technology, Data Analytics, Data science techniques, Design, Effective communication skills, Leadership Skill, Machine learning techniques, SPARK Programming
About the role: As a Data Science Senior Manager at Foursquare, you’ll be broadly responsible for leading teams working on statistical inference, big data analytics, and supervised/unsupervised model building. The methodologies we employ are varied which creates a rich environment for the application of data science technology.This is a massive opportunity for professional development and you will learn many new technologies and techniques during your Foursquare experience.
More specifically, we are currently looking for a Senior Manager of Data Science to join our Movement Engine team. Your team builds geospatial models and pipelines that refine 100 billion gps records daily into data products that provide an understanding of how people move through the physical world. You will lead Data Scientist on multiple cross-cutting workflows, some around upgrading existing algorithms and creating new ones for movement understanding and venue attachment.
Other challenges include the filtering and amplification of quality in extremely noisy third party data - thus enabling the faithful reconstruction of the daily diary of people moving through the urban landscape. You will work directly with your engineering counterparts to ensure your team's solutions are deployed effectively in production. You will collaborate with external stakeholders in the Product, and Go To Market teams and organize your team to deliver high quality and timely solutions. You will also be responsible for hiring and career growth of your team members.
This is not just about ML. We look for data scientists who are excited by the challenge of solving problems using a wide array of modeling and quantitative techniques. This can involve product feature prototyping, new metric development, and exploratory data analysis.
Data scientists at Foursquare are also highly collaborative, working with Product and Engineering stakeholders to deploy machine learning models and analytics processes at scale in production. You should have a growth mindset, deep scientific curiosity, and a collegial spirit – it is through these qualities that we succeed as a team.
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Foursquare City Guide, commonly known as Foursquare, is a local search-and-discovery mobile app developed by Foursquare Labs Inc. The app provides personalized recommendations of places to go near a user's current location based on users' previous browsing history and check-in history.
Seattle, WA, USA
10-12 year