Data Scientist, Ecosystem Discovery
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: Los Angeles, United States
Company Description
Job Description
Data Scientists on the Lifecycle Analytics team at Square embed within product teams and leverage engineering, analytics, and machine learning to empower data-driven decision making in the full lifecycle of product development. Data Scientists on this team lead experimentation and growth initiatives, develop automation solutions to personalize product experiences, provide insights to our sellers about their business, and drive strategic decisions with data. Square’s mission is economic empowerment, and our team supports this by using data to understand and empathize with our customers, thereby enabling us to build a remarkable product experience.
The Ecosystem Discovery product team oversees the core experiences (eg navigation, home page, integrations) and underlying platform of our customer-facing websites. The website is our face and first impression for many customers. The navigation and site architecture are the maps that guide customers towards value. The platform supports all of this and empowers individual product teams to create their own experiences. The team builds platform tools that have outsized benefits and help other teams at Square to iterate faster. Together, this paints a vivid picture for our customers on how the Square ecosystem can solve their needs - today and tomorrow.
You Will:
Partner with product stakeholders to make data-driven decisions across the organization by leveraging descriptive and predictive analytics where it will have a material impact
Apply a diverse set of tactics including statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning, to solve problems as well as independently research and produce actionable insights
Own, coordinate, and solve complex, cross-functional problems
Communicate analysis and decisions to high-level stakeholders and executives in verbal, visual, and written media
Lead the data strategy of Ecosystem Discovery product engineering, influencing them to make well-informed architecture and design decisions that affect data at Square
Provide comprehensive day-to-day analytics support, develop tools and resources to empower data access and self-service so your expertise can be leveraged where it is most impactful
Work with other team members on medium and long-term initiatives that span across product domains
Qualifications
You have:
3+ years of analytics experience or equivalent
Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to build strong relationships and influence with product partners
Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects that depend on the contributions of others in a variety of disciplines
Fluency with data, analytics and visualization technologies (We primarily use SQL, Looker, and Python)
Experience in applying both data-backed heuristics and machine-learning techniques to solve practical product problems such as predicting churn, cross selling, clustering user archetypes, and more
Familiarity with data warehouse design, development and best practices
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources