At: major global financial services firm
Location: New York, NY or Boston, MA
Web: Description at www.starbridgepartners.com


Senior Data Scientist (Inv / Risk / Marketing) NY & BOS - Recent PhD. w/solid Internships.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENT:
Relevant PhD + Relevant Papers / Internships [OR] Masters and 2 Year Data Science Exp.

COMPENSATION:
$130K to $150K Base Salary and (25%-40%) Bonus + Excellent Benefits.

Visa Sponsorship Permitted!

Our client, a major global financial services firm has devoted incredible resources into creating an entrepreneur-style Data Science Division within the framework of it's FORTUNE 500 BRAND. This position will have a start-up feel with challenging problems utilizing decision analytics that will make a massive impact on the bottom line after the products are launched. The Data Science Division is a highly respected resource that has proven to generate $10's of millions in new revenue and cost savings. We are helping to add several Senior Data Scientists to the New York and Boston offices. A PhD is desired, but we are open to a wide range of candidates.

AVAILABLE ROLES - AREA OF FOCUS

• Digital User Experience
• Audience Targeting
• Acquisition / Retention
• Investments
• Underwriting
• Risk Analytics
• Digital Marketing & Sales
• Operations Optimization

DATA SCIENCE TECHNIQUES:

• Machine Learning / Deep Learning
• Predictive Performance (Time Series)
• NLP / Text Analytics
• Linear Statistical Modeling
• Experimental R&D
• Data Visualization

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work collaboratively within an R&D environment to develop actionable solutions that impact the bottom-line of business lines
• Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
• Work with SME's to do experiments and studies on the data and prototype solutions
• Present finding to leadership, build, test, refine, launch, iterate

YOU'LL NEED TO HAVE:

• PhD in relevant discipline (Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, etc.)
• Solid relevant Masters, with 2 years of Data Science professional experience
• Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources
• A strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
• A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
• Experience with at least one scripting language such as Python
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
• Expert knowledge of an analysis tool such as R or Matlab
• Experience working with large data sets, experience working with distributed computing tools a plus (Map/Reduce/Hadoop, Scala/Spark, Vertica, PySpark/AWS)

_Contact_:
TO APPLY/ DISCUSS FURTHER simply email charlie@starbridgepartners.com your resume or LinkedIn Profile URL.

All inquiries will be confidential of course. This position will be filled in an expedient manner.