Principal Data Scientist (Remote)
Remote
Andela
Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent...About Andela:
Andela exists to connect brilliance and opportunity. Since 2014, we have been dedicated to breaking down global barriers and accelerating the future of work for both technologists and organizations around the world.
For technologists, Andela offers competitive long term career opportunities with leading organizations, access to a global community of professionals, and education opportunities with leading technology providers.
For companies, Andela provides access to a global network of fully integrated team members that unlock their business’ innovation and growth potential.
At Andela, we are deeply passionate about creating long-lasting and transformative growth opportunities for all and doing it in an E.P.I.C. way.
We are excited to continue building our team with incredible people like you!
What you’ll do:
- Understand Andela’s platform, value proposition, and roadmap by working with stakeholders across the entire organization - from commercial leaders, to business operators, to product and engineering teams.
- Take ownership of high-visibility projects across the product and engineering organization to help create innovative solutions for a category-defining platform
- This role is founded in research and development, so you’ll be tasked with, and have the opportunity to define, unique phenomena that occur at Andela - and will be responsible for informing and guiding technology solutions to drive efficiencies here at scale
- Drive a culture of experimentation-driven product development. A/B testing and variance analysis should be core to your skillset
- Own the excitement of entropy! Our platform, products, and offerings are constantly changing and expanding. We encourage and enable each individual at Andela to drive a commercial idea when they identify one, which creates an ever-changing data landscape.
Who you are:
- At home in an environment where you are responsible for taking action with stakeholders to drive change!
- 4+ years experience working in data-driven analytics/predictive analytics/statistical modeling/data mining
- Ability to code in Python and write complex, efficient SQL queries to extract data
- Experience with A/B testing and ability to run rigorous experiments to come up with scientifically sound recommendations
- Good understanding of how to grow and shape data tools and datasets to improve data-driven decision making
- Ability to thrive in an unstructured environment, working autonomously on a strong team to find opportunity and deliver business impact
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bonus points but not required, having worked on Search ranking, Ad-tech, Supply Chain, Risk or Fraud
- Experience building ML models
- PhD or MS in computer science, machine learning, statistics, physics
- Interesting side projects or Kaggle competition results
Benefits:
- Fully Remote work culture
- A fair and competitive salary
- Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela
- Quarterly work from home stipends
- Generous paid time off
- Additional paid holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Health insurance (country-specific)
- Equity
- 401k (US only)
- Andela Affinity Groups
- And more!
At Andela, we outcompete through diversity. We know that our strengths lies in the multiplicity of talents, perspectives, backgrounds & orientations resident in our community and we take pride in that. Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy (including breastfeeding), genetic information, HIV/AIDS or any other medical status, family or parental status, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This commitment applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Our policies expressly prohibit any form of harassment and/or discrimination as stated above.
Andela is home for all, come as you are.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: A/B testing Computer Science Data Mining Engineering Machine Learning ML models PhD Physics Python Research SQL Statistical modeling Statistics Testing
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