Data Scientist

LearnUpon is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team in Ireland.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Philadelphia, Belgrade, and Sydney, we are a team that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one), and we go the extra mile to deliver work we're proud of.

Our culture fosters open, collaborative environments where our team and individual accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. Join LearnUpon, where we work together as a friendly, supportive team who, most importantly, like to have fun.

As a Data Scientist in our Engineering group, you will be responsible for providing actionable insights and models to help drive our business, with a focus on our Marketing and Sales funnel and Customer journey. This is a ‘green fields’ opportunity to establish data foundations and drive immediate impact for our rapidly growing business.

 What will I be doing?

• Work as a part of a team of data scientists and analysts collaborating with our heads of Sales and Customer Success
• Help design and develop core business metrics, create insightful automated dashboards and data visualization to track them and extract useful business insights.
• Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data; 
• Develop deep-dive analysis and Communicate findings to senior leaders, evangelizing data-driven business decisions.
• Develop predictive models to help prioritize leads, account sales investment, and churn risk.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.

What skills do I need?            

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience
• Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling
• Background in at least one programming language (e.g., R, Python) and experience with creating models, dashboards, data visualizations using these languages
• Experience using SQL analyzing datasets with databases such as Teradata, Oracle, and MySQL
• Experience with predictive/regression modeling
• Strong ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to drive business and technical discussions.
• Resourceful, creative, adaptable, detail-oriented with strong time management and organizational skills
• A technology qualification (Degree or equivalent) in field of study such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a plus

• Experience in ETL tools and processes
• Previous LMS Experience
• Experience using scripting languages such as Unix shell, Python, and PHP

Why work with us?

• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events.
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go.
• Structured learning environment.
• Competitive salary and company ESOP.
• Private health insurance.
• 25 days annual leave + 1 Company day off.

What is the Hiring Process?

Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call, then a 45 min coding phone screen.
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews, and then offered an opportunity to meet with our CEO/CTO.
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

Visit our Careers site to find out more about working for LearnUpon, and check us out on Instagram.