Data Scientist II

Arbortrack HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in New York City and several other countries.

About the role:

We are adding headcount to this team, so this is a new seat. We're hiring another Data Scientist II to build models and run analyses that change decisions on pricing, retention and demand. Applied data science role. We care more about whether your model gets used than about its AUC on a holdout set. Remote within the US. The team meets in New York City once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Day to day:

• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality.
• Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks.
• Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer.
• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations.
• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations.
• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models.
• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of applied data science experience.
• MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, physics or another quantitative field, or a BS plus equivalent experience.
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks.
• Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design.

Also helpful:

• Pricing or marketing mix modeling.
• MLflow or another experiment tracking tool.

Compensation and benefits:

Compensation: $166,000 - $200,000 a year DOE.

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid time off.

Arbortrack HQ provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Arbortrack HQ.