Principal Data Scientist

Summary

Join Field Nation as a Principal Product Data Scientist and play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of our marketplace. You will be responsible for operationalizing a supply coverage framework, optimizing reputation signals, improving a network quality dashboard, and conducting data analysis to support better decision-making. This role requires strong analytical and technical skills, including advanced SQL and experience with R or Python. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence the product roadmap, and establish a data-driven culture. Field Nation offers a competitive salary, unlimited paid time off, an annual vacation bonus, and various other benefits. If you have 8+ years of experience in data science or product analytics, particularly in marketplaces, we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years in a Data Science or Product Analytics role
• Analytical Skills: You have the skills to turn raw complex data into insights
• Technical Skills: Advanced SQL skills and intermediate skills in a scripting language (R or Python)
• Ownership: Proactively takes ownership over success of initiatives from ideation to delivery to achieve the desired impact
• Balancing trade offs: You choose the right level of complexity to most effectively solve the problem given constraints
• Customer obsession: You understand the customer and how your insights or data solutions will improve their experience
• Clear Communicator: Able to translate complex data insights into simple, actionable narratives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Able to effectively work with cross-functional stakeholders to understand the problems to solve and serve as a thought partner, providing recommendations for data driven approaches
• Prioritization: Effectively prioritizes work based on product priorities and communicates any required trade offs to stakeholders
• Experimentation: Proficient in designing and analyzing A/B tests, with consideration for marketplace dynamics and strategies for handling smaller sample sizes

Responsibilities

• Operationalize + own the Marketplace Supply Coverage Framework to identify quality supply gaps, recommend solutions and measure the impact of coverage initiatives
• Monitor + optimize Provider Quality Reputation Signals to ensure the metrics are fair, accurate, and improve buyer outcomes when utilized
• Enhance the Network Quality Dashboard to track key metrics, balance clarity with depth, and generate actionable insights into the root causes of quality issues
• Utilize data to influence the product roadmap and drive a measurable reduction in negative buyer outcomes
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to identify opportunities and quantify the impact of initiatives across the Product organization
• Establish a data-driven product development culture by defining, tracking, and operationalizing feature, product, and company-level metrics
• Develop an experimentation program that enables measuring the success of new features through A/B testing

Preferred Qualifications

• Marketplace experience
• Experience building data solutions in product experiences

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off
• Annual vacation bonus
• Individualized growth + development plans
• Strong values around work/life balance
• Community involvement opportunities
• Competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave + 401K
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies to solve meaningful problems