Raya is looking for a data scientist to help us glean insights to help drive better product decision making. You like to answer board open questions like "what caused the spike in membership growth this week" and construct experiments that are key drivers of product iteration. Raya has already built our ETL pipeline and data warehouse and you will be able to hit the ground running.

In a world where many social apps measure their success by time spent online, Raya is a technology company focused on providing utility. Our iOS only app is a tool for discovery of and access to exciting people, events, opportunities and recommendations globally.We believe that by marrying great software with a membership based community built around core values of trust, creativity, and reciprocity, we can provide solutions that have heretofore been impossible.

The ideal candidate will have had 3 or 4 years of experience at at least one company and grown within the organization, demonstrating both loyalty and leadership. You will join the team at the very early stages of the company as one of our first data scientists and will have all the excitement and accountability that comes from joining a fast growing, well funded, Los Angeles startup (we think it's the best opportunity in LA - check our why us page). Raya’s team includes the 3rd designer of Facebook, one of the first 10 engineers at Venmo, the PM who launched the like button, the engineer who founded Flipagram and a lot of other amazing people. We prioritize learning and teamwork and love giving people the opportunity to champion big challenges and grow into better versions of themselves.

We offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $25 a day grubhub budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they’ve never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity. You can see more at the bottom of our careers page: https://careers.rayatheapp.com/

Requirements:

• Degree in quantitative field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent)
• 2 years of experience working in a data science, product manager, data engineer, or data analyst working on recommendations, relationships, or connecting people to one another at a scaled consumer social app that has daily engagement levels (dating, gaming, social media)
• Good loyalty: 3+ years at most of their roles and a promotion at at least one
• Ability to distill informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
• Excellent capability working and manipulating data and developing software application in programming languages such as Python
• Good communication skills with both technical and business people
• Experience in data mining and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL foundations
• Superior verbal and written communication and presentation skills, ability to convey rigorous mathematical concepts and considerations to non-experts.

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