Junior Data Scientist
FabFitFun, one of the fastest growing companies in L.A. and the U.S. according to Inc, Forbes and E&Y, is seeking a Junior Data Scientist to help support business stakeholders, recognize and capitalize on opportunities in our rich datasets, and help develop long-term processes and pipelines. In this role, will use machine learning algorithms to help solve real business problems as well as perform the necessary data mining/cleaning, relevant statistical analyses, and tuning/implementation of appropriate models and algorithms. Our ideal candidate will be up to date with modern techniques and algorithms and possess knowledge and/or experience of a subscription business model.
What you’ll do:
- Assist in carrying out analyses for various business teams
- Develop clear visualizations to convey complex ideas
- Perform deep and continuous exploration of high-volume data
- Contribute to and manage standards of documentation on model development and data dictionary
- Analyze data from multiple databases (Stripe, Recurly, etc) to drive optimization and improvement of product recommendation, customer segmentation, marketing attribution etc
- Develop, tune, and deliver various models and algorithms
- Utilize Jupyter Notebook to create, test, and display data cleaning, data science models and testing
- Visualize and present data for stakeholders using different reporting platforms ( e.g: D3, ggplot, mpl,seaborn,Looker etc.)
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelors or Masters in Engineering, Data Science or related field
- 1+ year of relevant work experience
- Self-starter mindset with ability to take on projects with little direction
- Proven ability to tackle business problems with data science solutions
- Strong knowledge in Statistics and Excel
- Knowledge of Machine Learning algorithms (SVM,KNN, Decision Trees, Random Forests, regression etc.)
- Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Pandas, Scipy, SQL)
- Experience with consumer/consumer-facing data
- Experience or understanding of 1 or 2 of the following in highly preferred:
- Recommender systems
- Time-series analysis and Arima models
- Financial transactional data
What you’ll get:
- Opportunity to work on rich data sets with direct business impact
- Assist and collaborate on major projects in areas like product recommendation, user segmentation, churn and retention prediction
- Amazing benefits including medical, dental, vision, FSA, and 401k
- Unlimited PTO
- Catered meals, kitchen stocked with great snacks and drinks
- Free FabFitFun subscription and and quarterly credit in the Add-Ons store