Near - Lead - Data Science

Description

You will be joining Near, one of the fastest growing Enterprise SaaS companies and experience a true start-up culture with the freedom to experiment and innovate. At Near, we believe that great culture is not just about work; it's work + life. We not only encourage our employees to dream big, but also give them the freedom and the tools to do so.

The role of Lead, Data Science provides the candidate an opportunity to drive key innovative projects with the Near Data Science team. You'll join a team of experts in data science to develop core ML/AI models that will become part of the Near Data Intelligence Platform. The team is responsible for R&D, prototyping, development and deployment of data science solutions applied to several verticals such as retail, auto, media & tech. The role requires you to apply your extensive knowledge to designing, development, deployment of ML/AI Models. Also, it requires that you define the best practices for the Data Science team and to partner with key decision-makers in business, product and engineering teams within the company.

As a Lead, Data Science, you will collaborate with your team members, product owners, Analysts, software engineers, data engineers and data analysts to develop data-driven products. You should have the ability to envision Near products and their feature enhancements. You will lead the team members to solve difficult problems and set appropriate expectations to the stakeholders in terms of delivery and timelines. This role is hands-on and you will be developing models and pipelines along with the rest of the team, while you mentor the rest of the team with the latest technologies and trends in data science.

A Day in the Life

- Developing core data science models and capabilities that power the Near Platform and its SaaS products.

- Applying various data science methods such as time series forecasting, causal inference, machine learning methods and reinforcement learning to understand the most important aspects of our product, users, and business.

- Advanced data analytics include processing structured (payments, telecom, page clicks etc) and unstructured data in multiple formats (text, audio, video) spanning multiple domains including user profile data, geo-spatial data, network data and retail data.

- Project management of data science projects to ensure they are delivered on time.

- Research and create intellectual property for the company that will benefit Near and its partners.

- Use nonparametric and probabilistic models to generate insights keeping in mind the bias-variance trade-off.

- Working closely with the Engineering team to operationalize and deploy the models.

- Partner with technology and the business teams to build a superior data quality pipeline that will feed the models.

- Understand and prioritize the data science work based on cost-effectiveness and leverage time management skills.

- Attend conferences and organize workshops/meet-ups to be in touch with the data science community.

What You Bring to the Role

- Advanced degree in M.Tech/PhD in a quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Econometrics, STEM fields) plus.

- Overall 8-12 years of experience with at least a minimum of 5 years working experience on any data-driven company/platform, developing data science models and quantitative models.

- Ability to work independently with high energy, enthusiasm and persistence.

- Must have exposure in handling multiple simultaneous projects and meet deadlines and can work in a group setting as well as in an independent position.

- Must have thorough mathematical knowledge of correlation/causation, decision trees, classification and regression models, recommenders, probability and stochastic processes, distributions, priors and posteriors.

- Understand the model lifecycle of cleansing/standardizing raw data, feature creation/selection.

- Writing complex transformation logic to generate independent and dependent variables, model selection, tuning, A/B testing and generating production-ready code.

- Knowledge of Numerical optimization, Linear/Non-linear/Integer programming, Statistics, Combinatorial optimization is a plus.

- Familiarity with Python, Apache Spark (Java, Scala, Python), ANSI SQL, AWS Cloud, PyMC3/theano/tensorflow and other scientific python/R modules is a plus.

- Need to be comfortable writing code for model building and bootstrap, test and own models through their lifecycle including DevOps and deploying into the cloud.

- The candidate is expected to have exceptional problem-solving, analytical and organization skills with a detail-oriented attitude.

About Near

Near, the global leader in privacy-led Data Intelligence, curates the worlds largest source of intelligence on people, places, and products. Near processes data from over 1.6 billion monthly users in 44 countries to empower Marketing and Operational data leaders to confidently reach, understand, and market to highly targeted audiences and optimize their business results.

With offices in Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Bangalore, Tokyo and Sydney, Near serves major brands in retail, CPG, real estate, restaurants, tourism, technology, marketing, and other industries. For more information, please visit near.com.