Lead Data Scientist

San Francisco

We have partnered with an ambitious startup who are building the future of television.

Seeking a Lead Data Scientist with experience in leading data-driven product development and comprehensive business analytics.

The ideal candidate will have competence with statistical modeling and independently developing data-driven insights in the face of ambiguity. Experience using Machine Learning to build data-driven product features is a strong bonus.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to design, execute and analyze experiments to improve the product, user experience, and signup conversion rates.
Collaborate with the engineering team on data pipeline to support advanced analysis of customer acquisition and retention efforts (influenced by product features and marketing activity).
Create and own predictive models for key business and customer performance metrics.
Design, build and maintain automated dashboards that connect data from internal and external data sources to support reporting, data discovery and statistical analysis that inform product priorities and marketing decisions
Deliver quick insights on ad hoc projects and analyses as necessary

Skills:

Passionately analytical and innately curious creative thinker
Solid technical database knowledge and experience optimizing SQL queries on large data sets
Experience with A/B testing and analysis
Experience with advanced statistical methods
Excellent presentation and communication skills, particularly the ability to explain and present analytical methodology and results to non-technical audiences
Hands-on experience with statistical tools (e.g. SAS, R, Python)
3-5+ years of experience in business and data analytics after graduation
BS or MS degree in Statistics, Math, Data Science, CS or related discipline

Nice-to-have:

Hands-on experience with BI and visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Periscope, Domo)
Programming skills, in particular, experience with statistical libraries in python
Machine Learning and Deep Learning experience

What's on offer:

Competitive salary, company stock options, and health benefits
Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
Flexible working hours
Generous paid parental leave
Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
$2000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two-week vacation)
$5000 annually for professional development and educational assistance
$500 “TV stipend” for new employees to upgrade their home watching setup
Dog-friendly office
And much more!