Lead Data Scientist

Summary

Join ezCater as a Lead Data Scientist and play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying data science and ML models to revolutionize our business and transform the customer experience. You will drive development, prototyping, and rapid iteration of models, ensuring tangible business value. Lead innovation of advanced data science methods and models, identifying means to rapidly mature data science practices. This role requires delivering on open-ended questions and tackling challenging data science problems through hands-on coding. You will be the advisor and subject matter expert for structural design of data, analysis, experiments, and modeling. Advance innovation and improvements to analytics techniques, approaches, and processes used across the company.

Requirements

• 5-7 years experience in data science, statistics, computer science, or a related field, performing statistical modeling and quantitative and technical analysis, ideally with experience in marketplace or e-commerce environments
• Experience proactively identifying areas where analytical efforts can add strong business value and setting the analytics roadmap
• Experience in deploying and maintaining data science & machine learning algorithms that are widely used and adopted
• Demonstrated proficiency in explaining complex analysis to stakeholders at all levels of the organization and translating conclusions into straightforward, actionable business recommendations and strategic direction. Includes creating clear and compelling visualizations to communicate complex data
• Demonstrated ability collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, analysts, and designers, to define and address key business challenges using data-driven approaches
• Self-directed and demonstrated ability to define, prioritize, and direct analytics initiatives
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and Python libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, and scikit-learn
• Knowledge of data science / ML modeling approaches (e.g. time series forecasting, logistic regression, and gradient-boosted decision trees)
• Experience partnering with business teams on nimble and rapid model development
• Be able to own and deliver projects/programs both on your own and as a member of a broader team

Responsibilities

• Develop predictive models to forecast user behavior, identify trends, anticipate customer needs, and optimize our offerings, contributing to data-driven decision-making in product development
• Apply the latest AI technologies to enhance ezCater’s product
• Partner with our ML team to integrate data science models and algorithms into the product in the most valuable and effective manner, including providing personalized experiences, recommendations, and features for users
• Use advanced statistical techniques such as Bayesian and causal inference to analyze large datasets, extract meaningful insights, and provide actionable recommendations for product improvements
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in data science, machine learning, AI and relevant industry trends, applying these insights to your work
• As an individual contributor, be the advisor and subject matter expert for structural design of data, analysis, experiments, and modeling for your domain; advance innovation and improvements to the analytics techniques, approaches, and processes used across the company

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in 2-sided marketplaces for both B2C and B2B customers is a plus

Benefits

• Market competitive salary
• Stock options
• 12 paid holidays
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with ezCater match
• Health/dental/FSA
• Long-term disability insurance
• Mental health and family planning resources
• Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office