Lead Data Scientist

About Tradeswell:
Tradeswell is the operating system for real-time commerce. We’re on a mission to democratize ecommerce intelligence and empower growth for brands by making ecommerce actions more informed, more coordinated, and more profitable. We use AI to create insights and make real-time optimization decisions across the entire ecommerce value chain. We put the power of data science at the fingertips of our customers, empowering their decision-making and giving them unprecedented control.

The Opportunity:
The Data Science team at Tradeswell is solving some of the most exciting problems in ecommerce, with a particular focus on time series forecasting, optimization, and modeling. You will be joining a small but passionate group and working closely with the Engineering and Product teams. You will be solving real customer problems using first party data, and your work will be tightly integrated with our core platform.

What we’re looking for:
Tradeswell is looking for an experienced Lead Data Scientist to help build and lead a technical team of junior Data Scientists and Data Engineers. You will be expected to scope and plan data science projects and to provide expertise on statistical and machine learning for the team. We expect a high aptitude for effective communication, and experience in managing data science projects from design through to implementation in a production environment.

What you’ll do:

• Develop a deep understanding of the data generation process and pipeline.
• Oversee the technical work carried out by more junior members of the team.
• Understand the value we provide for our customers and formulate new ways to provide even more value.
• Stay current on new technology and developments in Machine Learning and Data Science.
• Contribute to the Data Science community with blog posts, white papers, and academic papers if appropriate.
• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams within agile workflows ensuring timely deployment of new releases and updates to existing features.
• Help implement frameworks to ensure the Data Science team produces code that is tested, reproducible, and interpretable.

The Skills Needed:

• Master’s degree or above in a statistical or engineering field.
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
• 5+ years of work experience.
• 2+ years of leadership experience.
• Proficient in R, Python, SQL
• Proficient in Spark, iPython notebooks (Jupyter).
• Deep understanding and experience with Machine Learning and Data Science methods.
• Applied statistics skills, such as distributions, regression, null-hypothesis testing, hierarchical Bayesian modeling, etc.
• Experience with AWS.
• Previous experience with a fast-paced agile focused team.

Working and thriving
We want people to thrive at Tradeswell - we believe you do your best work when you feel your best. Learn more about values and benefits at Tradeswell.