14 Sep
Principal Data Scientist Grimes, IA - local/regional candidates preferred Direct hire
Vacancy expired!
- MBA, MS, PhD in Statistics, Applied Math, Economics, Computer Science or related fields
- 8+ years of industry experience in predictive modeling, data science, and analysis, or equivalent experience
- Strong expertise in solving complex and highly impactful quantitative problems with at least one scripting language (Python or R - we use both) and SQL
- Strong strategic thought leadership to identify business needs, drive towards tactical solutions for those needs
- Ability to drive multiple project simultaneously and influence business partners to prioritize key initiatives
- Innovative thinker and creative problem-solver who is able and willing to challenge the status quo
- Strong statistical knowledge and intuition - ideally used in A/B testing, observational studies or other forms of causal inference
- High level of comfort with analytical approaches and quantitative methods to deal with very large datasets
- Ability to write ad-hoc data pipelines and ETLs for self-use if need be
- Proficient in Python or R
- Proficient with SQL, Google BigQuery
- GitHub
- Docker
- Extensive exposure to all aspects of Retail/eCommerce from the technical, strategic, and operational perspective
- Google Cloud Tools
- Apache Airflow
- Experience with H2O.ai
- PowerBI/Tableau
- Consultative mindset to assist internal business partners by being able to deliver a ML project from beginning to end, including understanding the business need, aggregating data, exploring data, building & validating predictive models, and deploying completed models with concept-drift monitoring and retraining to deliver business impact to the organization
- Ability to apply rudimentary models to understand baseline of business problem, and figure best path forward to become incrementally better, while understanding cause and effect relationships
- Own a set of data science solutions (i.e., predictive models) in your area(s) of expertise
- Help evolve the Client’s Data Science function to be more sophisticated and structured for improving speed to market of our data products
- Partner with Analytics team members and other functions to share insights and best practices, ensuring consistency of data-driven decision-making throughout the org
- Provide mentorship to less experienced data scientists
- Start Date: ASAP
- Hybrid work environment with occasional work from home
- Direct hire - U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time
Vacancy expired!