Data Scientist

Smartcar is on a mission to make it easy for everyone to use the apps and services they love with their car. We build developer-friendly APIs which makes it easy for businesses to integrate their products with vehicles of any brand using a single integration.
Founded in 2015, Smartcar has raised $36M from Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, and Energize Ventures. We are now the leading developer platform for mobility businesses across North America and Europe serving amazing customers including brands like British Petroleum (BP), Turo, NRG, and more.
Innovative mobility companies use our API platform to verify mileage, issue digital car keys, manage EV charging schedules, monitor fleets, and much more. 
As Smartcar’s first Data Scientist you will build, track and maintain key performance metrics across engineering, product and marketing. Your valuable insights and research on Smartcar’s products and business will assist in our global expansion.
Feel free to check out what our interview process looks like.
All of our openings are remote within California, Texas, and New York. We’d love for you to join us!

Key Responsibilities

• Be hands-on in improving Smartcar’s data quality, KPIs, and overall metrics in addition to creating and maintaining company dashboards
• Work closely with cross-functional teams in Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, and others across the company to advance Smartcar’s product and integrity
• Identify the most impactful opportunities for product development based on user needs and recorded metrics — presenting these opportunities clearly to stakeholders
• Partner closely with product, marketing, engineering, and sales to perform investigative research and provide actionable insights
• Define the metrics and dashboards we use to measure the health and success of our products

Who You Are

• 3 - 8 years of demonstrated ability in a similar data scientist role
• Proven track record as a Data Scientist calculating and aggregating data into dashboards and defining metrics
• Experience with analysis, including crafting success metrics, and presenting findings with clear product recommendations or implications
• Hands-on experience synthesizing insights from data into dashboards using tools such as SQL, Postgres, Redis, Excel/Sheets, Python
• Experience in BI Tools: (Looker, Tableau, DOMO, etc.); Metabase experience is a plus
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to build strong relationships with colleagues as well as the ability to explain sophisticated topics in straightforward terms
• Degree in data science, computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, or a similar quantitative field is a plus

Manager

• Sanketh Katta, Co-Founder & CTO & COO

Compensation and Benefits Package

• Base salary determined by years of experience: $135,000 - $165,000
• Equity
• Remote work within CA, TX, or NY
• Health, Dental and Vision covered at 90% for all plans and 80% coverage for dependents, which amounts to approximately $11,000 a year
• 401K matching at 4%
• Unlimited PTO
• Wellness stipend of $50 a month
• Cell phone and Internet stipend of $50 a month
• $300 yearly learning and development stipend
• $350 work-from-home stipend
• 8 weeks of 100% paid parental leave with a 1-week half day ramp back time and a 5 week Freshly subscription
• 10 days of paid bereavement leave

Sponsorship

• We do not currently support any new sponsorship opportunities or sponsorship transfers for this role

Recruiter For This Role

• Steven Stone

Smartcar is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to reach out, in confidence, to mathilde@smartcar.com with how we can help make your interview process as comfortable as possible and how we can provide reasonable accommodations.