Junior Data Scientist (Marketing Analytics)

Since 2020, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

Overview:

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. This hire will own our demand forecasting models and the process for keeping them accurate as conditions change. You can work from home anywhere in South Africa. We have no office requirement. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll do:

• Work with ML engineers to move models into production and monitor drift.
• Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer.
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality.
• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches.
• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks.
• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations.

Qualifications:

• 1+ years of applied data science experience.
• Data visualization in matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly or a BI tool.
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks.

What you get:

• Medical aid contribution.
• Provident fund.
• 13th cheque.
• Group life cover.
• Data allowance.
• Study assistance.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Within 30 days.

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