Data Scientist

Summary

Join Wattpad's Data Products & Analytics team as a Data Scientist to build and improve the company's search, recommendation, and analytics systems. You will leverage your machine learning expertise to create impactful solutions, working collaboratively with product managers, engineers, and designers. The role involves applying analytics and machine learning to solve business problems, developing data pipelines, and building dashboards. You will need 3+ years of experience in a Data Scientist role and proficiency in SQL, Python, and PySpark. Wattpad offers competitive benefits, including health insurance, retirement contributions, generous vacation time, and remote work options.

Requirements

• A passion for applying analytics and machine learning to business problems
• Motivation and excitement to deal with ambiguous problems and challenges
• 3+ years experience in a Data Scientist role with proven results in delivering high impact support and/or products with quantitative methods and applied machine learning through the lifecycle of development, implementation and evaluation
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
• A systematic approach to problem solving and project organization
• Clear communication about problem requirements, benefits and challenges of approaches with stakeholders and team members
• A team player who can collaborate and partner with other teams to achieve results
• Comfort working with complex, high dimensional data in SQL, Python and Pyspark
• Comfort with applied machine learning frameworks: scikit-learn, PyTorch, or Tensorflow
• Proven experience in a software engineering environment developing and deploying data pipelines, dashboards and/or solutions

Responsibilities

• Bring knowledge of analysis and applied machine learning to the challenges of product creation, development, maintenance and improvement to Wattpad systems (e.g. recommendations, search) with an appreciation for the behaviours of Wattpad users
• Follow and maintain best practices for analysis, experimentation and machine learning solution development and communicate those to stakeholders and partners to help create business value and impact
• Prove concepts, prototype and build iteratively in areas such as but not limited to: user analysis and metrics, dashboards, feature pipelines, recommendation, search and ranking solutions to achieve impact while developing comprehensive knowledge of business objectives, data structures, business impact, processes, advocating for changes where needed to improve the product
• Work cross functionally to build and communicate key findings, POCs, prototypes, solutions and collaboration closely with product managers, engineers and designers to help build news experience on Wattpad

Benefits

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
• Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
• Your own health/wellness account to spend each year
• RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
• Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
• Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
• Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
• Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!