Company Description
Huck Adventures brings people outside to explore the world together. The outdoor app makes it easy for people to connect with one another and get the educational and safety resources they need to for great adventures. Tailored to outdoor recreation, the app includes availability and skillset matching, communication, event, education, and safety tools all in one place. Huck Adventures partners with like-minded organizations and donates 10 percent of its profits to environmental and outdoor recreation nonprofits, so everyone can enjoy the adventure and beauty of the great outdoors. Learn more at www.huckadventures.com.
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We expect a lot. Our culture is unique and we live by our values, so it's worth learning more about Huck Culture online.
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We are a tight and driven team with big goals, so we seek individuals who are truly passionate about their work.
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We are a start-up aiming to be a big company and have co-founder opportunities available.
Job Description
Huck maintains a relentless focus on continually improving our product through analytics and experimentation. We are seeking a talented and passionate data scientist to help drive innovation for our user interfaces on mobile, web. This is a high-impact position where your analytical insights and interpretation of test results will have a direct impact on product decisions. All future product changes will be tested before productization.
Responsibilities:
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Partner closely with product management leadership, designers, and engineers to design and analyze app development that drive key product decisions.
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Proactively perform data exploration on user behavior to discover future testing opportunities. Past projects included segmenting customers based on network characteristics and visualizing how users navigate the application.
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Research the best metrics to measure user engagement.
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Build data products to rapidly turn novel ideas into web apps and dashboards.
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Scale your solutions to enable partners to self-serve effectively and automating common data science workflows.
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Present your research and insights to all levels of the company, clearly and concisely.
Qualifications
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PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, Econometrics or related field
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5+ years relevant experience with a proven track record of leveraging massive amounts of data to drive product innovation
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Strong statistical knowledge and intuition - ideally utilized in A/B testing or other experimentation setting
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Strong SQL skills
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Strong Programming skills in firebase and firestore
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Experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (Hive, Pig, Presto, Spark)
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Experience creating data products and dashboards in Tableau, R Shiny, or D3.
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Deep product sense
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Ability to work independently and drive your own projects
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Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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What We Do
Huck Adventures is an adventure app coming Spring 2019. We aim for Huck to be the ultimate place for learning new adventure skills, connecting with others at your level, and thriving as an outdoor community.
To get early access to the app, sign up on our website to be a Huck Insider. You’ll be the first to test out new features before anyone else and help make Huck the ultimate outdoor community app.
In the meantime, get the latest gear reviews, learn how to get started in a new sport, and be inspired by stories of the latest adventures of your fellow adventurers on the Huck blog.
Thanks for visiting!
The Huck Team
www.huckadventures.com