Andela

New York, NY
1,001-5,000 employees
Andela’s mission is to advance human potential by powering today’s teams and investing in tomorrow’s leaders.

Principal Data Scientist, US

Principal Data Scientist, US

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What you’ll do:

  • Understand Andela’s platform, value proposition, and roadmap by working with stakeholders across the entire organization - from commercial leaders, to business operators, to product and engineering teams.
  • Take ownership of high-visibility projects across the product and engineering organization to help create innovative solutions for a category-defining platform
  • This role is founded in research and development, so you’ll be tasked with, and have the opportunity to define, unique phenomena that occur at Andela - and will be responsible for informing and guiding technology solutions to drive efficiencies here at scale
  • Drive a culture of experimentation-driven product development. A/B testing and variance analysis should be core to your skillset
  • Own the excitement of entropy! Our platform, products, and offerings are constantly changing and expanding. We encourage and enable each individual at Andela to drive a commercial idea when they identify one, which creates an ever-changing data landscape. 

Who you are:

  • At home in an environment where you are responsible for taking action with stakeholders to drive change!
  • 4+ years experience working in data-driven analytics/predictive analytics/statistical modeling/data mining
  • Ability to code in Python and write complex, efficient SQL queries to extract data
  • Experience with A/B testing and ability to run rigorous experiments to come up with scientifically sound recommendations
  • Good understanding of how to grow and shape data tools and datasets to improve data-driven decision making
  • Ability to thrive in an unstructured environment, working autonomously on a strong team to find opportunity and deliver business impact

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bonus points but not required, having worked on Search ranking, Ad-tech, Supply Chain, Risk or Fraud
  • Experience building ML models
  • PhD or MS in computer science, machine learning, statistics, physics
  • Interesting side projects or Kaggle competition results
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