What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Data Scientist position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
Databricks is a leading data and AI company that empowers organizations to leverage deep data insights for business improvement. As a Data Scientist on the Data Team, you will shape key data science areas and collaborate with various stakeholders to drive data-driven decisions and product development. The role also involves mentoring junior data scientists and representing the data science discipline within the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Shape the direction of some of our key data science areas - segmentation, recommendation systems, forecasting, product analytics, churn prediction and insights.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success to understand product usage patterns and trends and make data-driven decisions, recommendations and forecasts.
• Manage stakeholders for their focus area - gather changing requirements, define project OKRs and milestones, and communicate progress and results to a non-technical audience.
• Mentor and guide junior data scientists on the team by helping with project planning, technical decisions, and code and document review.
• Represent the data science discipline throughout the organization, having a powerful voice to make us more data-driven
• Build self-serving internal data products to make data simple within the company.
• Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7 years of data science, machine learning, advanced analytics experience in high velocity, high-growth companies
• Extensive experience in applying Data Science / ML for the end-to-end development and deployment of data-driven products for solving business problems.
• Familiarity with product data science - understanding and tracking customer and user behavior using lenses like adoption, churn, cohorts, segmentation and funnel analysis.
• Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions. We work most closely with Product, Sales and Engineering at the moment, but also work with the Marketing and Finance organizations.
• Strong coding skills in general purpose languages like Scala or Python, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment.
• Proficient in data analysis and visualization using tools like R and Python.
• Experience with distributed data processing systems like Spark, and proficiency in SQL.
• MS or Ph.D. in quantitative fields (e.g., Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Physics, Economics, Operational Research or Engineering)
Company:
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
