Data Scientist - Decision Science

Oura is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking candidates who want to make an impact on our journey.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Decision Science team in North America. You will work closely with marketing, product, science and software teams to uncover insights and enable data-driven decision making across all areas of the company. Your team’s projects will include modeling of customer retention, clustering of customer personas to inform marketing decisions, design and analysis of experiments to evaluate new product features, and performing validation of our sensor data. The right candidate will be able to select and apply advanced modeling techniques to solve business requirements, manage relationships with external providers, and present results effectively to an executive and non-technical audience. A major focus of your role will be exploratory data analysis of the health and behavioral trends of Oura users, producing research that we share with the world via our public website. Some examples of this are featured at https://blog.ouraring.com/category/research-valida...

Requirements

We would love to have You on our team, if You:

• Are excited about bringing better sleep and wellness to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide
• Have mastered a wide range of machine learning and statistical techniques, and developed an intuition for what tool to apply in every situation
• Are adept at creating visualizations that make complex results understandable at a glance
• Can translate fluently from business requirements to technical implementation, and back
• Thrive in a fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable, and highly collaborative work environment
• Have advanced skills in Python and SQL
• Have a deep understanding of experimental methods and statistical hypothesis testing
• Preferably, have experience with modeling customer behavior for marketing, product and BI applications, such as retention/LTV analysis or working with data from CEM providers
• Familiarity with any of the following a plus: causal inference, AWS, experimentation platforms like Optimizely, NLP, time series analysis

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Lunch benefit
• Wellness benefit
• Flexible working hours + work-life balance
• Collaborative, brilliant teammates
• An Oura Ring of your own
• Latest equipment of choice

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please send us your application as soon as possible. We will start reviewing the applications immediately, as we receive them.

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, socioeconomic status, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.