
Data Scientist
Driven Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Costa Rica
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About the role
- An expert in quantitive analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data beyond the numbers that understands how users interact with both consumer and business products
- Able to partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
- Inform, influence, support and execute product decisions and product launches
- Critical thinker with strong communication skills
- Reliable, self-motivated, shows initiative
- Able to work well within a team and independently
- Product Operations and designing and evaluating experiments
- Monitoring key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes in metrics
- Building and analyzing dashboards and reports
- Building key data sets to empower operational and exploratory analysis
- Evaluating and defining metrics
- Exploratory analysis
- Proposing what to build in the next roadmap
- Understanding ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term trends
- Identifying new levers to help move key metrics
- Building models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems
- Influencing product teams through presentation of data-based recommendations
- Communicating state of business experiment results, etc to product teams
- Spreading best practices to analytics and product teams
- Working in Hadoop and Hive primarily, sometimes MySQL, Oracle, and Vertica
- Automating analyses and authoring pipeline via SQL and Python-based framework
Requirements
- Masters Degree in computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Econometrics, Statistics or related technical field
- Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
- Experience communicating quantitive analysts results
- Knowledge with relational databases and SQL
- Development experience in any scripting language (OPHO, Python, Perl, etc.)
- Knowledge of statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, regression)
- Experience manipulating data sets through statistical software (ex. R. SAS) or other methods
- Experience working with distributed computing tools (Map Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, etc) is a plus
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
quantitative analysisdata miningSQLPythonHadoopHiveMySQLOracleVerticastatistical software
Soft Skills
critical thinkingcommunicationreliabilityself-motivationinitiativeteamworkindependenceinfluencingpresentationproblem-solving
Certifications
Masters Degree in Computer ScienceMasters Degree in EngineeringMasters Degree in Operations ResearchMasters Degree in EconometricsMasters Degree in Statistics