Data Scientist, Growth
- Full-time
Company Description
Job Description
As a Data Scientist within the Growth Data Science team, you will lead projects that help with Square’s growth. The team exists to surface the right messages to the right sellers at the right time across all our go-to-market channels (web app, in-app, notifications, sms, email, mail, etc) as well as product surfaces. We provide sellers with remarkable experiences using machine learning to power the best product/feature/content recommendations.
Our algorithms derive value from our unique, rich, and rapidly growing data. We partner with business, product, operations and engineering teams to drive better decisions, automated and human, using sophisticated modeling and machine learning. We’re a passionate team of hackers, engineers, statisticians, and optimizers who are resourceful in distilling questions, wrangling data, and driving impactful business decisions.
You will:
Lead and drive cross functional data science projects from beginning to end: build relationships with partner teams, frame and structure questions, collect and analyze data
Apply descriptive and predictive analytics to help drive insights and business decisions
Apply a diverse set of tactics such as statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning to research and produce insights
Deeply understand the Acquisition Marketing data ecosystem, and apply data science to support the growth of the organization
Communicate analysis and decisions to high-level stakeholders and executives in verbal, visual, and written formats
Collaborate with business leaders, subject matter experts, and decision makers to develop success criteria and optimize new products, features, policies, and models
Qualifications
You have:
3+ years of analytics and data science experience or equivalent
Experience applying both statistical and machine-learning techniques to solve practical product problems
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to build relationships and influence across the organization
Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional projects that depend on the contributions of others in a variety of disciplines
Fluency with data warehouse design practices, analytics, and visualization technologies (we use SQL, Looker, and Python)
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