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Staff Data Scientist
Company | GoFundMe |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $170000 – $230000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and leading data science and analytics projects
- Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Engineering or related areas) or equivalent experience in the field
- Experience with a broad set of statistical and machine learning methods to solve and optimize critical business problems and metrics including experimentation and statistical inference
- Advanced ability to perform data segmentation and manipulation directly using SQL and Python
- Able to organize, prioritize and assist with business requests with adequate scoping and stakeholder expectation setting
- Strong presentation skills, being able to author and present insights to the leadership team, and influence decision makers
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, analysis, and interpretation of projects from data requirement gathering to data processing, modeling, and recommendations for various departments across the company
- Act as technical leader on the team – identify and disseminate best practices across team in terms of tools, systems, and processes
- Create and monitor KPIs and present emerging trends and actionable insights to leadership team
- Partner with cross-functional teams to identify new opportunities requiring the use of modern analytical and modeling techniques
- Develop dashboards and perform ad hoc analysis when necessary
- Build forecasting and ROI models to project growth for various initiatives to assist with roadmap prioritization
- Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation
- Perform light ETLs as needed for the role
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience mentoring more junior data scientists/analysts a plus
- Knowledge of data tracking, database architecture, ETL/data preparation tools, APIs a plus
- Data visualization skills and experience with BI tools (like Tableau/Looker) a plus