Director of Data Science

About Pinfold Systems

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. Pinfold Systems builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The role

Pinfold Systems is looking for a Director of Data Science to join a small, steady team. Applied data science role. We care more about whether your model gets used than about its AUC on a holdout set. Remote position. Most of the team is in Seattle, but nobody is required to come in. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Day to day

Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches. Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality. Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM. Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations. Work with ML engineers to move models into production and monitor drift. Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer. Estimate causal effects with difference-in-differences, propensity matching or regression discontinuity.

What we're looking for

Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data. Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences. Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design.

Pay and benefits

Salary range: $295,000 - $385,000 a year

Health insurance. 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%. Paid holidays.

Start: Within 30 days.

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