Senior Data Scientist

Company:
Location: Remote

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We are searching for a strategic and inquisitive Senior Data Scientist to develop and run with data-centered projects. In keeping with this overarching aim, the Senior Data Scientist will be required to outline work requirements, assign tasks to junior staff, and monitor performance within the team. You should also harness your mastery of Data Science to consult on various aspects of these and other projects.

Data Scientist Responsibilities:
  • Identify new opportunities through data mining and drive growth through your expertise in experimental design.
  • Champion experiments from end to end including design, execution, and analysis.
  • Function as an analytics powerhouse and build out our core experimentation muscle and culture.
  • Power executives across departments with experimentation, finding and evaluating data from various sources, developing reports, and generating and presenting actionable insights.
  • Identify new growth and conversion opportunities across the site to enhance commercial returns.
  • Use controlled A/B experiments to test nearly all proposed changes to our product, including new recommendation algorithms, user interface (UI) features, promotion tactics, launch strategies, the new member signup process, payment methods, etc.
  • When A/B experiments are not possible, rely on quasi-experiments and causal inference methods, especially to measure new marketing and advertising ideas.
  • Act as the source of truth to cut through personal attachments to ideas or confirmation bias and keep everyone true to the disciplined math and statistics.
  • Comfortable working with data with minimal structure that require manipulation such as stitching of different data sources
  • Participate heavily in the design, creation, and refinement of our data warehousing and infrastructure.

Basic Qualifications:


  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Science, Engineering, Economics, or other quantitative fields. Masters degree strongly preferred.
  • Expertise in estimation, experimental design, hypothesis and A/B testing.
  • Expertise in proper testing structure setup for appropriate controls, sample size, confidence interval configuration etc.
  • Expertise in experiment design (a/b, full and partial factorial) and statistics.
  • Strong ability to tease out causality/incrementality vs. correlations.

Technical requirements:

  • Advanced SQL knowledge.
  • Experience with a data visualization tool (preferably Tableau).
  • Experience with reporting databases architectures.

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