Data Scientist - Machine Learning

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, R Programming, SQL

Job Description

Threads Relevance is looking for a Data Scientist to improve recommendations. This role spans retrieval, Star Search, and Cold/Light user recs and will partner closely with the other data scientists and Eng TLs working on Core Personalization across the stack

Responsibilities

• Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches.
• Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products that serve billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses.
• Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
• Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience in analytics
• Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R)
• Experience with ranking and/or recommendations systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or Ph.D. Degree in a quantitative field.