Lead data scientist

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are Nurun, at the crossroads of creativity and technology. We create digital experiences that help to grow brands and transform organizations. We are hybrids who organize our work around multi-disciplinary collaboration. Our vision: humans first, technology second. Always the same ingredients, but never the same recipe: we adapt ourselves as needed to ensure the excellence of our products.

We’re a large group of diverse professionals gathered in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Windsor, BC, and even Saskatchewan! Who are these professionals? We organize as teams of Experience Designers, Developers, Client Partners, Project Managers, Strategists, and Business Designers (don’t worry, we’ll teach you what that is). 

Job Description

The Senior Data Scientist has a dual role within the agency:

  1. Be the guardian and champion of a data-centric culture at Nurun.
  2. Lead mandates and support clients in mandates. 

Practice lead:

  • Participate in estimating and defining project quality expectations;
  • Be a technical reference for teams;
  • Monitor trends, best practices and new tools available in connection with data (Analytics, ML, AI etc.). 
  • Contribute to defining a vision for the practice of data (Analytics & AI) within the agency and participate in evolving the service offering and the tools used to implement it;
  • Participate in the democratization of data within Nurun;

Carry out data consulting mandates:

  • Contribute to performance analysis, definition of measurement objectives and performance monitoring in the initial phases of our mandates;
  • Recommend and implement best practices for data organization and structure. 
  • Set up dashboards and configure visualization tools for our customers. 
  • Support the implementation of performance monitoring tools such as Piwik and GA4 and use them to analyze the performance of our customers' digital products.
  • Help our customers use machine learning models in their products.

Qualifications

 

  • Bilingual: fluent in French and English (ESSENTIAL).
  • 5+ years professional experience.  
  • Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business administration, economics or finance. 
  • Comfortable presenting and conveying your enthusiasm for data in front of agency members.
  • Know how to access different databases and create advanced queries for data analysis. Strong knowledge of SQL, expert knowledge of Python or R 
  • Proven statistical experience in machine learning, both creating and maintaining models, as well as mentoring analysts in finding the right methods to solve problems. 
  • Advanced knowledge of data models, infrastructure and architecture. 
  • Ability to manage ambiguity (with customers who don't always know the impact of their data decisions)
  • Proven expertise in data quality, knowledge of various cleansing techniques and data integrity verification. 
  • Good ability to visualize data in Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, Quicksight or another data visualization tool in the category. 
  • Ability to mix and analyze different data sets to offer clear and accurate analysis to different audiences. 
  • Good knowledge of Google Analytics 4.

 

Additional Information

By nature, Nurun is fundamentally human; from our culture of collaboration, to how we work with our clients, to how we empathize with and serve the customers of our clients. It’s critical that our candidates operate on this level, fostering and enriching our human-centric culture.

  • For our working philosophy and entrepreneurial spirit; 
  • For an approach to our projects based on understanding human needs; 
  • For the chance to work on large-scale digital projects for major clients around the world;
  • For our competitive offer and wide range of social benefits from day one;
  • For our flexible hybrid work model with 2 days a week minimum in the office with the rest being flexible, with access to collaborative office space;
  • For a flexible schedule that truly allows work-life balance;
  • For a personalized development plan supported by our continuing education platforms;
  • For a rich collaboration with passionate and talented experts.
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