Senior Data Scientist (Remote)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive key long-term product goals, like training a model that predicts which of our free users are most likely to subscribe, or recommending the right articles to the right users at the right time.
• Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, drawing from multiple analytical methods to choose the right tool and right level of complexity appropriate for the job.
• Use quantitative analysis to deeply understand what our users are saying, and to develop recommendations based on that analysis.
• Design and develop data science pipelines in production.
• Guide complex experiments.
• Cultivate an outstanding data science environment.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of experience as a data scientist with a proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web scale data.
• Strong working knowledge of a scripting language like R or Python and how to use it to train machine learning models and put them into production.
• A broad understanding of SQL with an ability to efficiently pull and write to our data warehouses.
• An understanding of subscription media and recommendation engines, with the ability to turn it into insights and optimizations.
• Knowledge of statistical principles and how they apply to predictive modeling.
• Ability to drive projects with minimal guidance and prioritize high-impact work.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to build cross-functional relationships.
• Can explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling stories with data.