Data Scientist, Commerce Platform
- Full-time
Company Description
Job Description
Data Scientists on the Commerce Platform Product Analytics team are embedded within product teams and leverage engineering, analytics, statistics, and machine learning to empower data-driven decision making in product development. Data Scientists support Square’s mission of economic empowerment, by using data to build understanding and empathy with our customers, enabling us to build a remarkable product experience.
You will:
Partner with the product stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and answer the most important questions where analytics will have a material impact and produce actionable insights
Develop tools & resources to empower data access and self-service so your advanced expertise can be leveraged where it is most impactful
Apply a diverse set of tactics such as statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning; discerning where simple analytics solutions (e.g. a quick visualization) are preferable to complex solutions (e.g. machine learning).
Communicate analysis and decisions to high-level stakeholders in verbal, visual, and written media
Contribute to the data strategy of product engineering, influencing engineers to make well-informed architecture and design decisions that affect data at Square
Qualifications
You have:
3+ years of product-focused data science experience or equivalent
Fluency in SQL
Experience performing data analysis and machine learning using Python or R
Experience using statistics to inform decision making
Ability to understand complex business and data systems; versatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job
Even better:
A degree (B.S., M.S., PhD.) in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, Economics, or a related technical field
Experience with a BI tool such as Looker or Tableau
Experience with data warehouse design, development and best practices
Technologies we use and teach:
SQL (Snowflake)
Python (pandas, scikit-learn, etc.)
ETL
Looker, Amplitude, Tableau
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