Data Scientist

Chicago, Illinois, United States - Remote

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Clarkston Consulting

Clarkston is a consulting firm that provides life sciences, consumer products, and retail consulting services with experienced consultants.

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Do you want the opportunity to leverage your skills to make a direct impact on the world’s leading life sciences and consumer products companies? Join Clarkston Consulting as a Data Scientist to help deliver creative business solutions to our market-leading clients as a part of our team of experienced professionals.

We are looking for motivated, self-driven leaders who are energized by team results and interested in joining a firm that values its culture and people as its biggest strengths. Together, we can help find the answers to our clients most challenging business problems.

What You’ll Do

Clarkston gives you the opportunity to deliver great solutions, become recognized as an industry expert, and help build a great practice.

As a Data Scientist at Clarkston, you will:

  • Conduct exploratory analysis, produce descriptive statistics and explain phenomena based on data
  • Develop statistical and machine learning models for POC and production-ready applications
  • Drive ideation and execution of experiments and in-market tests with an eye on accuracy and statistical significance
  • Provide coaching and mentorship to junior analysts who are developing their skills

How You’ll Grow

At Clarkston, we feel that we provide the greatest value to our clients through a combination of our industry expertise, business process knowledge, and consulting excellence.

Beyond your day-to-day responsibilities, throughout your career at Clarkston you will:

  • Have the support and mentorship of your Clarkston colleagues and leaders
  • Own your career – you'll be able to take charge of your career journey with diverse opportunities to lead and expand your skillset both at the client site and within the firm
  • Have the opportunity to make a real and positive impact not only the clients you work with, but on the firm as well

Requirements

What We’re Looking For:

We are looking for versatile leaders and innovators with 3 years of relevant work experience in producing Machine Learning applications in production environments to work on diverse and challenging consulting projects to deliver true value to our clients.

An ideal candidate as a Data Scientist would have gained experience in one or more of the following:

  • Experience drawing insights from large data sets and manipulating data using a variety of methods and tools
  • Solid base understanding of statistical techniques around correlation, regression, outlier detection, and significance
  • Experience using a variety of machine learning techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning and their real-world advantages/drawbacks, including classification, regression, time series forecasting, clustering, and other use cases
  • Experience optimizing, testing, and documenting results of machine learning models
  • Knowledge of common machine learning pitfalls and how to avoid them, including normalization, feature selection, optimization, and validation
  • Experience querying databases and familiarity with SQL script languages
  • Knowledge of tasks relating to getting into a production environment and maintaining results: analyzing model drift, version control, security strategy, and monitoring and alerts
  • Understanding of the resource landscape with ability to research and form opinions around the best vendor solutions for our clients
  • Willingness to share technical solutions and product ideas with the team through design review, pair programming, code/model reviews, and tech talks
  • Minimum degree requirement: bachelor's degree (or MS/PhD) in Math, Statistics, Engineering or other relevant field for data science applications

Benefits

Our benefits include:

  • Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, and more)
  • 401k with company contributions
  • Paid vacation, personal days, holidays, and sick leave
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Life and Disability Insurance
  • Company Equity or Stock Options
  • Training and Professional Development investments

Visit Careers at Clarkston to learn more about our culture, benefits, and opportunities. We hope you’ll join us!

Travel Statement

Travel is an integral part of this role and is estimated to average 30-50% and may vary based upon client and project needs. While travel is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19 restrictions, all non-essential travel has been limited and any on-site requests are subject to review.

COVID-19 Vaccination Statement

While Clarkston Consulting has not mandated vaccination at this time, COVID-19 vaccinations are required in order to access Clarkston Consulting facilities and those of many of our clients. With this in mind, all prospective hires will be required to provide their vaccination status.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

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Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: United States
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