Data Scientist 5+ Years Experience, New York 1049 views

They’re looking for a Data Scientist to join Snap Inc! Working closely alongside the engineering, product design, and product management teams, you will enjoy creating inventive, data-based approaches to solving difficult business problems. Working from their New York, NY office, you’ll work to transform business questions into data analysis.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Product and Engineering and apply your expertise in quantitative analysis to create and scale insights
• Create testable hypotheses, then test them
• Effectively report your insights via visualization and dashboards that you create
• Help business and engineering partners make decisions based on data

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
• Ability to communicate the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner to a senior audience
• Machine learning skills

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in math, statistics, computer science, or other quantitative fields
• 5+ years of experience in quantitative analysis & data science or a related field
• Fluency in SQL or other big data querying language

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong statistical knowledge
• MA degree in math, statistics, computer science, or other quantitative fields
• Experience in a product-focused role at a social media and/or mobile technology company
• Experience with analytical packages such as SciPy or R
• Experience with data pipeline workflow monitoring and scheduling platforms (e.g., Airflow)
• Experience with a programming language, such as Python

At Snap, they believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable them to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact them at accommodations-ext@snap.com .