Senior Data Scientist (Remote)

Job Description

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will draw on your experience to excel not only in your own work but also to elevate data’s impact at a company-wide level. You will provide team mentorship that propels the work of your colleagues while helping to establish best practices for data usage across Workafy.

Responsibilities:

• Extract actionable insights from broad, open-ended questions

• Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product changes

• Analyze data from across the product to uncover the root causes of metric movements

• Communicate results to cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions

• Develop tools to scale and automate analyses, improving productivity across the company

• Improve the work of other data scientists through mentorship and by bringing industry best practices to the team

Minimum Requirements:

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Workafy coordination hours (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)

• 3+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role as a Data Scientist or similar title

• 2+ years experience working on product analytics

• Extensive experience generating insights using statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing)

• Demonstrated ability to clearly explain data results to cross-functional teams

• Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) to manipulate, clean, and analyze data

• Ability to exercise judgment and combine quantitative skills with intuition and common sense

• Experience evangelizing best practices and process improvements on your team

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Redshift, Presto)

• Experience pushing code and navigating a complex codebase

• Active Workafy  user with curiosity about the product

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