Avvo: Sr. Data Scientist
Drive overall business growth through advanced analytics and market opportunities, develop best practices for product instrumentation and experimentation, and communicate those to business and engineering teams.
At: AvvoLocation: Seattle, WA
Web: www.avvo.com
Avvo is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to drive overall business growth through advanced analytics and market opportunities. This is a new position and will report to the Director, Advanced Analytics & Data Science.
Responsibilities:
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis and data mining to identify trends and new opportunities
- Develop best practices for product instrumentation and experimentation, and communicate those to business and engineering teams
- Work closely with product marketing teams to drive sales innovation through actionable analytics
- Answer business questions by using appropriate statistical techniques on available data
- Apply big data solutions in conjunction with data engineers
- Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
Position Requirements:
Necessary:
- Quantitative Master's degree (Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, etc.)
- 5+ years experience as a Data Scientist or relevant role
- Highly proficient in SQL
- Highly proficient in statistics (with strong expertise in machine learning)
- Knowledge of R, Python or similar
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analyses in a clear, precise and actionable manners to audiences as varied as data scientists and executives
- Independent, investigative mindset. Demonstrate ability to complete analytics projects with minimal direction
Nice to Have:
- Hadoop knowledge
- Ph.D.
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