Data Scientist

Summary

Join Stitch Fix's Merchandising Algorithms team as a Data Scientist to leverage your expertise in data science and pricing optimization. You will design, implement, and validate improvements to our pricing strategy, ensuring optimal sell-through. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into analytical questions, using decision-modeling frameworks to guide decision-making. Build tools and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making and empower stakeholders. This role offers the autonomy to identify and solve problems, contributing to a significant impact on the business. Work with a diverse team to transform how people find what they love.

Requirements

• You have proficiency in Python
• You have experience leading pricing experiments and supporting cross-functional partners through the end-to-end decisioning process
• You have an understanding of statistical principles and how to apply them to data and experimental results, and can communicate derived insights to stakeholders to drive action
• You have experience with optimization techniques such as linear programming, dynamic programming and others
• You’re comfortable with SQL and experience working with large datasets to gather insights
• You 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 curious about what’s happening outside your immediate sphere and how you can leverage insights elsewhere inside the domains you own
• You have familiarity with data visualization tools such as matplotlib, seaborn, looker etc
• You’re happiest as a team player and you are 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, particularly influencing pricing decisions
• 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
• Be exposed to a wide-open field of opportunity for impact with plenty of challenges to make your own
• 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
• Enabling a dynamic price optimization module that recommends pricing actions based on style aging, AUC, turn, client feedback (e.g., return rate, PTE, etc), and margin thresholds
• Recommending a pricing strategy and testing roadmap to ensure Stitch Fix remains competitive and considerate of margin

Benefits

• This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity
• The salary for US-based employees hired into this role will be aligned with the range below, which includes our three geographic areas
• A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, location, and performance
• This position is eligible for new hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance
• In addition, the position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other benefits