Center for Open Science is hiring a
Data Scientist

Summary

The job is for a Data Scientist at the Center for Open Science (COS). The role involves strategic planning, implementation, and execution of COS's new Data Science effort, engaging the metascience community, extracting insights from internal data sources, and creating organizational indicators. The Data Scientist will supervise a Data Analyst and work closely with the Engineering team and Research team members.

Requirements

• Advanced experience with forecasting, statistical, network analysis, and other analytical approaches to answer strategic questions
• Familiarity with A/B testing
• Advanced experience with data analysis tools to manipulate data and draw insights from large and small data sets (Python, R, and SQL required)
• Experience with database solutions (Postgres DB/SQL Databases, ElasticSearch, BigQuery)
• Familiarity and experience with Object Relationship Management/Object Relational Mapping systems (such as Django/SQLAlchemy)
• Experience accessing scholarly databases and leveraging REST APIs
• Experience with data visualization tools
• Experience working with data engineers and software engineering teams to develop documentation and data pipelines leveraging a variety of data sources
• Experience with project management software (e.g., Confluence, Asana)
• Experience articulating and translating business/strategy questions and using statistical techniques to arrive at an answer using available data
• Experience creating and implementing data pipelines, processes for data analysis and visualization, and for reporting out insights to the organization
• Experience identifying and integrating data sources in various states of maturity
• Advanced experience with data cleaning and validity for uniformity and accuracy
• Experience leading others in data specification and shared understanding of data access and utility
• Expertise (PhD or equivalent, such as Master’s degree with 3-5 years of experience) in computationally oriented research domain
• Experience providing leadership and executing multi-year projects
• Experience with personnel management preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead data strategist to identify and integrate data throughout the organization
• Use the data available to answer critical organizational questions, conduct deeper analysis across data to bring forth new insights, and propose new data and analysis to support organizational strategy and decision-making
• Work closely with the Engineering team to understand current data sources available, use them to answer specific and broad organizational questions to inform strategy, and to design the ideal data pipeline for expanding data science activities and insights delivered to the organization
• Enable democratization of data science across teams, and potentially external stakeholders by aligning stakeholder needs, executing a data science roadmap to deliver insights to stakeholders, and designing a data pipeline accessible by teams
• Oversee documentation of all processes, models, and activities by developing, documenting, and implementing good data management practices and data governance
• Implement, maintain, and troubleshoot workflows and pipelines to gather, analyze, and visualize data necessary for reporting organizational goals (e.g., indicators) with an aim of being able to make content publicly accessible
• Work closely with Research team members and contribute to the design and implementation of research studies that informs our continuous improvement of the implementation of COS’s Theory of Change
• Articulate the insights gathered through the data science activities to a lay audience to bring teams shared knowledge concepts that translate across organizational activities

Benefits

• $85,000 - $95,000 a year
• This is a fully remote position with a requirement to attend up to 4 in person meetings per year
• COS supports flexibility in work scheduling. Individuals who would like to work outside a 9am - 5pm Eastern Time (ET) schedule must work with their managers to establish core hours of availability
• Please apply by submitting a resume and answering the 3 qualifying questions in lieu of a cover letter