Spokeo is a people search engine that both enlightens and empowers our customers. With over 12 billion records and 18 million visitors per month, we reconnect friends, reunite families, prevent fraud, and more. Every day our nimble team takes on enormous challenges in data science that push the limits of the cloud and search architecture.

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help us turn our vast repository of data into usable information, leveraging solutions that include matching techniques, machine learning, and graph theory to resolve entities across disparate data sets and discover relationships among those entities.

Responsibilities:

• Drive informed and timely decision-making that improves and optimizes the way our products are created, executed, and adopted.
• Create automated anomaly detection systems and quality assurance metrics to constantly track performance.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering to understand the needs of the company by utilizing data to drive product decisions and strategy.
• Communicate best practices in quantitative analysis and develop cross-functional partnerships.
• Keep up to date with the latest technology trend to apply them to our business challenges.
• Perform Ad-hoc analysis and present results.

Requirements:

• Advanced degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Applied Math, or other quantitative fields.
• Minimum of 3 years of any internet or large B2C working experience in analytics, data mining, data visualization and/or predictive modeling.
• Proficiency in working with SQL and Python
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with internal teams in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment
• Proven ability to lead and execute projects from start to finish with minimal guidance in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to create visuals, dashboards, and reports to effectively communicate insights.

Privacy Notice for Candidates: https://www.spokeo.com/recruiting-policy

Spokeo is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best products and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm who presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully-executed agreement on file and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.