Data Scientist - Internet/Online

Responsibilities

- Identify potential high-impact growth insights. Design and carry out quantitative investigations, and share back to the larger team.

- Define, develop, and maintain key models of user behavior.

- Build and maintain aspects of the data pipeline.

- Be an expert on data science and statistical methods for growth engineers. Actively advise in their experiments.

- Hone data intuition and use it to advise other in product teams on their activities.

- Create tools that benefit other data customers to share datasets, share queries, and backfill data more easily.

- Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation.

Requirements

- Extensive experience solving analytical problems with applied statistics, machine learning, data mining, and data visualization.

- Strong familiarity with relational databases and SQL.

- Expert knowledge of an analysis tool such as R.

- Experience working with large data sets and experience working with distributed computing tools such as MapReduce, Hive, or Redshift.

- A flexible approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision.

- Ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear manner.

- Passionate and curious about understanding user behavior.

- Comfortable within a fast-moving startup environment.

- MS or PhD in a relevant technical field, or equivalent experience.