Senior Data Scientist

• Own problems end to end: frame the question with the stakeholder, build the model or experiment, ship it, and follow it into production.

• Work backwards from the decision. Start from what someone needs to decide and what it costs to get it wrong, not from the data that happens to be available.

• Stay accountable for your models once they are live: monitoring, drift, retraining, and the day they start behaving differently.

• Tell senior stakeholders things they do not want to hear, including that a campaign, a feature or a rule did not work.

• Support your teammates in growing every day by setting the standard for how we do causal inference, reviewing their work, and sharing knowledge.

• Strong applied experience turning a messy business question into a model or a measurement: causal inference where that fits, predictive and ranking models where it does not. You know when a result is not real.

• Fluency in Python and SQL, and comfort working independently rather than waiting for data to be handed to you. We use Snowflake, dbt, Airflow and Looker, on top of technologies like MySQL, Druid, Kafka and Flink.

• A track record of models that made it into production and changed a decision, not just notebooks and slide decks.

• Sound statistical judgement, and the honesty to quantify and communicate uncertainty rather than hide it.

• Exceptional communication skills. We expect you to talk to various stakeholders to derive requirements, drive discussions, and facilitate decision-making processes effectively.

• Extraordinary sense of ownership. We are committed to empowering people with freedom and accountability.

• Experience building with agentic tooling such as MCP or agent frameworks, or automation platforms like n8n.

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