Who We Are

Babylist is the leading vertical marketplace and commerce destination for baby, driving purchase decisions for more than 8 million people each year. Utilizing robust proprietary data, patented technology, and unbiased editorial guidance, Babylist recommends expert-tested products to those starting their parenting journey so loved ones can offer their support. Babylist registries connect new parents and their community of family and friends who help plan, prepare, and shop for a child's arrival. Babylist is the generational brand in baby, leading the $67 billion baby products market as the trusted go-to solution for growing families. To learn about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com.

Our Ways of Working

We’re a remote-first company with team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees so people can get the work done in the way that works for them and their teams. After all, many parents call Babylist their professional home, and sometimes, life puts you in a position where you just have to jump off that Zoom meeting to clean up that banana that’s getting stomped on by your 2 year old.

We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to quickly build those relationships, we offer the opportunity to meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually. Most of our roles are fully remote, but these opportunities to meet in person will involve limited amounts of travel. For some leaders, there might be more opportunities to get together in person that would require about 10% travel to Oakland, CA or elsewhere.

The Data Team

The Data Team at Babylist powers data-driven decision making through all aspects of the company’s business. We are not a service team. We are a product function with a strong focus on 3 core aspects of data -- engineering, analysis and data science. We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to join our growing team. 

The ideal candidate  has technical data skills, a deep understanding of product development & analytics, a strategic mindset, and excellent organization and communication skills. We are looking for critical thinkers who ask the right questions and seek answers with data. This key hire will be a thought leader among the company, mentoring others on problem solving and helping uncover new growth opportunities.  

The Product Analytics Data Scientist will work directly with the Babylist Product Team to help craft delightful experiences e for both audiences in our userbase: expecting parents and gift givers.. This individual has extensive experience working with Product Managers, conversion funnels, experiment design, and can infer nuanced user behavior from the data. They’ll play a leading role in defining the instrumentation needed to monitor every facet of the Babylist ecosystem and provide measurement of feature performance. We are looking for someone who can spot when a new feature is going to impact ML training data or alter the interpretation of a commonly used KPI. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to have a deep business impact while helping improve others around them.

What You'll Do

• Lead data initiatives relating to new product development — scoping data changes for new features, specifying data collection, and monitoring result 
• Own and be a knowledge expert in our data tools
• Work with stakeholders to translate their questions and hypotheses into structured analysis
• Work with product managers, department heads/directions, and data engineers to mature the data capabilities of Babylist’s analytics ecosystem 
• Deliver deep-dive analysis and make recommendations for future initiatives or projects
• Own the design and development of core data team products (e.g. data models, reports, analyses)
• Effectively present and communicate analytics findings across the company

Who You Are

• You have 6+ years delivering results in a Data Analyst, Data Scientist, or similar role at in a Product organization, ideally at an eCommerce company.
• You have strong SQL fluency: ability to work with large datasets and advanced queries
• You have familiarity with event analytics tools such as Segment and Amplitude, Heap or Indicative
• You have experience with visualization tools such as Mode, Tableau or other BI platforms
• You have experience with a scripting language like Python
• You have experience with git version control
• You have experience building descriptive and predictive machine learning models
• You hav an understanding of data warehousing and relational data modeling, experience with and/or snowflake preferred
• You have statistical methodology: experiment design, multivariate analysis
• You have an impact oriented mindset; Demonstrated ability to ask the right questions, prioritize work and manage stakeholder expectations
• You have next-level communication skills to understand and discover business pain points and build solutions
• You have keen attention to detail and data integrity
• You have a bachelors or masters degree with a strong quantitative focus

Your Core Competencies Might Include:

• Plans and Aligns
• Cultivates Innovation
• Collaborates
• Manages Complexity
• Drives Results

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We are a remote first company and we invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems 
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

If your experience is close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms – skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply.

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