Principal Data Scientist, Experimentation

Posted 4 Hours Ago
New York, NY
190K-270K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Digital Media • eCommerce • Marketing Tech • Software
A mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, intent on unleashing relevancy in ecommerce.
The Role
The Principal Data Scientist will own the health and growth of the Rokt marketplace, define key metrics, conduct analyses to identify opportunities, and collaborate with stakeholders to develop strategies and products that enhance growth.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries. 


The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. 

At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt’stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist, Experimentation

Compensation: $215,000-$300,000 salary, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.

About the Role:

You will be responsible for owning the health of our marketplace and driving its growth, including:

  • Defining the metrics for tracking the health of our marketplace, and build tracking to monitor this
  • Proactive analysis and modeling to identify opportunities to further develop the marketplace, including innovating and building cutting-edge auction mechanics / pricing
  • Partnering closely with R&D and Sales stakeholders to develop the strategy for growing the marketplace, including the product roadmap and Sales programs to drive growth
  • Conducting deep dives on marketplace impact to support high impact launches and Sales growth

Requirements

About You:

  • 6+ years of industry experience as a Data Scientist
  • Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Applied Math, or related fields.
  • Strong academic or professional experience with the latest auction theory
  • Strong knowledge of Python 3 and SQL
  • Entrepreneurial ownership and a deep desire to push the status quo
  • Strong and clear communication skills
  • Experience working with scaled marketplace and auction-driven businesses
  • Strong analytical / modeling experience tied to business outcomes
  • Applied use of visualization tools such as matplotlib, seaborn, tableau
  • Experience with common Python data science libraries such as pandas, numpy and scipy
  • Experience with relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL and/or SQL Server

Benefits

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better. 

About The Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

  • Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual $5000 training allowance
  • Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
  • Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! 
  • Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and get fully funded premium health insurance for your entire family!
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
  • Work with the greatest talent in town
  • See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.

If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
500 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology, enabling companies to drive incremental value from every transaction by unlocking relevant messages at the moment customers are most likely to convert. Rokt’s machine learning platform, built over the last 10 years, and scaled network powers billions of global transactions annually for the world’s leading companies, including Live Nation, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, Staples, GoPuff, Lands’ End, and HelloFresh. Headquartered in New York City, the company operates in 15 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US by Inc. for the last 3 years in a row. To learn more, visit Rokt.com.

Why Work With Us

Join a team of diverse individuals who thrive by challenging the status quo and working in different ways. People not inspired by job titles, but inspired by people.

Learn, grow, learn some more. Develop your voice, your ideas, your ability to help others. Become a leader. Explore possibilities. At Rokt you’ll unleash your full potential.

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