Senior Data Scientist LOC:San Francisco Bay Area
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
Job description
Position Summary & Key Accountabilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Research and develop methods for measuring and analyzing marketing spend effectiveness
- Research new ways for modeling customer behavior
- Design experiments to answer targeted questions
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand their business needs.
- Formulate a roadmap of project activity that leads to measurable improvement in business performance metrics/key performance indicators over time.
- Conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations.
- Architect, develop and automate analytics solutions
- Make business recommendations (cost-benefit, invest-divest, forecasting, impact analysis) with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through displays of quantitative information
- Develop comprehensive understanding of data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for both products and sales activity
- Creatively explore how to use data to continually add value and translate ad hoc questions into flexible methodologies that scale to answer broad problems across the organization
- MS or PhD in Statistics or related (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Ops Research).
- Relevant work experience including statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS, or similar), databases and scripting languages (such as Python).
- Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques
- Experience articulating business questions, pulling from datasets and using statistics to arrive at an answer.
- Experience translating analysis results into business recommendations.
- Deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analysis and trends, and applied knowledge of measurement, statistics and program evaluation.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and impeccable business judgment.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.