Data Scientist

Summary

Join Stitch Fix's Logistics Algorithms team as a Data Scientist and leverage your expertise in data science and optimization to drive data-informed strategic decisions. You will build key relationships with stakeholders, utilize decision-modeling frameworks, and collaborate on translating business challenges into analytical questions. This role involves solving complex problems, providing actionable recommendations, and building tools to support data-driven decision-making. You will have the autonomy to identify and solve problems, work with a small, agile team, and contribute to a large, diverse team. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity, with a focus on innovation and a positive work environment.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with optimization techniques such as linear programming, dynamic programming and others
• Comfort with SQL and experience working with large datasets to gather insights
• Understanding of statistical principles and how to apply them to data and experimental results, and can communicate derived insights to stakeholders to drive action
• Drive for resiliency. You take a principled approach to complexity, and can make smart bets on where to invest time and system burden for maximum business impact
• You’re happiest as a team player, able to balance time against multiple systems and work streams with defined objectives

Responsibilities

• Build key relationships with stakeholders across product, engineering, finance, and operations and collaborate on translating business challenges into analytical questions that can be addressed using data science techniques
• Use decision-modeling frameworks, such as simulations, optimization models, and A/B testing, to assess potential outcomes and guide decision-making
• Solution at high speed with a small, agile team of coworkers to produce outsized impact on the business
• Have the autonomy to identify unaddressed problems in the business as well as offer new, improved solutions to existing challenges
• Build tools and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making and empower non-technical stakeholders to leverage data insights in day-to-day decisions
• Work in concert with and learn from a large, diverse, and world-class Algorithms team towards the common goal of transforming the way people find what they love

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with data visualization tools such as matplotlib, seaborn, looker etc
• Curiosity about what’s happening outside your immediate sphere and how you can leverage insights elsewhere inside the domains you own

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Equity
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
• New hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance