Data Scientist

Who we are?

Founder and Lightning is a pioneering venture builder. We partner with commercially-minded, non-technical founders to start tech companies, launch new products and digitise industries. Our product managers, scrum masters, designers and developers work as the founder’s in-house team to pull together all the people they need to bring their ideas to life.

We help our founders (how we refer to our clients) with balancing commercial, product and technology considerations, and to find investment to grow their companies.

The Founder and Lightning team is made up of a group of over 100 interesting and talented people. We combine and share our knowledge, experience, passion and creativity to achieve incredible things for our founders and ourselves and love meeting people who can bring something new to the party.

Job Description:-

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Data Scientist to join our team on a fulltime contract of 3-6 months. We need someone to join our project next week. The Data Scientist will be responsible for designing and implementing data-driven solutions to support decision making and drive business growth.

The fun stuff you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to support decision making. Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes. Process, clean, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, preparation, and modelling.
• Present findings and insights in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non- technical stakeholders.
• Dataset acquisition
• Stay up-to-date with the latest data science and machine learning methods.
• Carry out research on recommender systems and apply to practical scenarios such as content, social networks.

Requirements

• Minimum 5yrs of commercial experience as a data scientist.
• Strong programming skills (Python, R, SQL, etc.).
• Experience with machine learning libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, TensorFlow).
• Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. matplotlib, seaborn, plotly).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark) is a plus and scalable model training.

Why us

• You’ll actually be a part of something amazing (we build great Products)
• We work on Product Ideas through validation, planning, building, launching and growing - so you’ll be able to hone your skills across the whole product lifecycle!
• Working directly with founders, designers and engineers in small, autonomous and full stack teams means you aren’t siloed and can work on the things that move the needle each week

• Career Development routes within the company, enabling you grow with us and expand your skills and experience
• We cover an enormous range of industries and types of products; this enables you to gain multi-industry experience in one place (in a much quicker timeframe)
• We value your voice! All our teams are empowered, and respectful challenge is welcome both within our teams and with our Founders
• You can help teach and mentor other team members as you will be mentored, we believe in always learning and sharing knowledge!

Benefits

• Salary: 25 000 - 29 000 PLN monthly on B2B
• Public holidays
• Training budget
• 2 paid Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) volunteering leave days per year
• Regular social events and team get togethers
• Be part of and help shape our growth strategy
• Work with some truly amazing people and clients
• Operate in a really exciting space, do really great things, produce really great work and our impact changes the world.
• Have an amazing international company culture spanning three locations working with some of the greatest people you’ll ever meet.