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Staff Data Scientist, Forecasting – Finance

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $194,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Own the design, operation, and evolution of end to end forecasting systems for revenue drivers, including data pipelines, model components, validation logic, and automated delivery into planning and financial workflows.
  • Select, adapt, and maintain forecasting approaches appropriate to each problem context, balancing accuracy, stability, interpretability, and operational cost rather than optimizing for modeling sophistication alone.
  • Engage in stakeholder management, effectively communicating with various teams and levels within the organization to gather input and share insights.
  • Drive the process of extracting actionable insights from complex data sets to influence business growth and strategic decision-making.
  • Continuously improve forecasting infrastructure and processes to reduce manual intervention, shorten cycle time, and increase trust in outputs.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment with a BS/Master’s in a technical field related to mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or 6+ years of relevant experience and a PhD in similar fields.
  • Extensive industry experience applying forecasting in production settings, with demonstrated ownership of forecasting pipelines or decision systems, not just standalone models.
  • Expertise in SQL and relational databases, along with strong fluency in programming languages such as R, Python, and Stan.
  • Experience building automated modeling workflows, including backtesting frameworks, model validation, scheduled retraining, and performance monitoring.
  • Familiarity with version control, reproducibility, and data quality practices required for operating models in regulated or high visibility financial contexts.
  • Comfort working across disciplines and making tradeoffs between statistical rigor, engineering complexity, and business constraints.
Benefits
  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
forecasting systemsdata pipelinesmodel componentsvalidation logicautomated deliverySQLRPythonStanautomated modeling workflows
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementeffective communicationextracting actionable insightsinfluencing business growthstrategic decision-makingcontinuous improvementtrust in outputs
Certifications
BS in mathematicsBS in statisticsBS in machine learningMaster’s in mathematicsMaster’s in statisticsMaster’s in machine learningPhD in mathematicsPhD in statisticsPhD in machine learning