Job Description

Our client is currently seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their team in the e-commerce industry. You will be working with passionate, highly intelligent ecommerce experts to mine the data to uncover opportunities, drive initiatives and support decisions. As an ideal candidate, you will have experience in the ecommerce industry as well as demonstrated success presenting complex research data (both qualitative and quantitative) in a clear and compelling manner that inspires action.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Collaborate closely with the Data team improving internal processes
• Help marketing and product teams to identify trends and opportunities
• Develop advanced learning algorithms and statistical models to solve critical problems and help deliver personalized customer experiences
• Architect, implement, deploy, and maintain data science intensive applications
• Synthesize data from various sources and extract useful information that will lead to improving the customer experience, customer retention, product design and effective marketing strategies
• Extract and organize data into a reliable user-friendly form and present it to the interested and affected parties
• Collaborate with others in implementing initiatives and projects surrounding content production, regional pricing, fraud prevention, vendors and customized offers; supporting and delegating tasks where needed
• Follow up with additional analysis once initiatives have begun to determine success or need for continued improvements
• Assist in designing and building business intelligence tools for data mining and reporting
• Suggest improvements in tools and techniques to help scale the team
• Conduct ad hoc data analysis based on current team needs and management priorities
• Mentor other Data scientists with the team

REQUIREMENTS
• Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative discipline (Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, MIS, other)
• Minimum 3 years of tried and true statistical analysis and data mining experience
• A passion for ecommerce and understanding of ecommerce industry trends
• Experience in the ecommerce industry, specifically in online retail is a plus
• Experience using Python (or similar) for data analysis, and managing data through relational and non-relational databases (ideally some experience with PostgreSQL and Mongo DB)
• Experience in productionizing data science applications and building/managing a data warehouse is a plus
• Strong quantitative analysis techniques and qualitative methods, as well as predictive modeling
• Demonstrated success presenting complex research data (both qualitative and quantitative) in a clear and compelling manner that inspires action
• Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience directing collaborative projects is a plus
• Self-starter who can manage their time effectively and has the interest of integrating into a team of passionate, highly intelligent ecommerce experts.

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