Senior Data Scientist

Company: Fivestars
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

Fivestars is America's largest local commerce network, driving over $3 billion of sales and 100 million transactions annually. Our mission is to help businesses and communities thrive by turning every transaction into a relationship. We offer an all-in-one payments, loyalty and marketing automation platform that brings more customers to local businesses. Founded in 2011, Fivestars is backed by Lightspeed, DCM, Menlo Ventures, HarbourVest, and others. Together, let's #LoveLocal. For more information visit: www.fivestars.com . Who you are As a Senior Data Scientist, you will serve as an analytics expert and use data and experiments to develop insights that will directly influence the product roadmap. You are a strong cross-functional team player who wants to contribute to a product that impacts the lives of business owners and consumers alike. You are flexible and enjoy working collaboratively in fast-paced environments. What you'll do

• Develop models and algorithms that deepen our understanding of user behavior & identify business opportunities for Fivestars
• Lead the design and development of A/B testing experiments from determining how they should be run and evaluating their impact on key company metrics--
• Partner with product, engineering, and research and use your data insights to influence product roadmap development--
• Mentor data scientists and analysts in the team and help them develop their technical knowledge, skills, judgment and ensure consistent delivery of high caliber output--
• Collaborate with other members of the analytics team to design, build, maintain, and standardize analytics processes and systems-- What we're looking for
  • Quantitative Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Operations Research or Engineering--
  • Minimum 3-5 relevant experience in analytics
  • Strong expertise with data mining, statistical modeling techniques like experimentation, clustering, classification, regression, tree-based methods, neural nets, support vector machines, anomaly detection, and natural language processing
  • Experience with a scripting language like Python or R
  • Fluent in SQL and strong experience building out dashboards in Tableau to help run the business
  • Experimentation A/B testing, statistical/predictive analysis, causal inference experience required--
  • Experience b uilding metric frameworks to understand user behaviors
  • Strong track record of working with cross-functional teams to accomplish objectives and achieve highly impactful results
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