Propel, Inc is hiring a
Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Propel is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to help drive impact on their ads platform, connecting low-income users with financial savings. The company offers meaningful work, a data science culture, remote work opportunities, and competitive salaries. The Senior Data Scientist will contribute to software systems used by millions of low-income Americans, support machine learning algorithms, maintain reliable data pipelines, and collaborate on projects.

Requirements

• 5+ years of startup experience
• Exceptional skills at converting questions into data analysis and insight, with just the right level of complexity
• Quantitative mindset, strong at working with probability distributions, causal inference, cost-benefit analysis, networks
• Experience with a startup environment or the ability to operate effectively when faced with ambiguity
• Fluency in SQL and either Python or R
• Experience with machine learning algorithms

Responsibilities

• Contribute to software systems used by millions of low-income Americans, helping to put dollars back in their pockets
• Drive change through impactful data analysis and investigations
• Support machine learning algorithms that improve how ad content is matched to users, how customer ad budget is spent, and how ad impressions are distributed
• Maintain reliable data pipelines to ensure trustworthy data
• Help Data Analysts and Customer Success Managers make their processes efficient and valuable, serving as our resident expert in Marketplace data
• Effectively communicate with team members during projects, code review, etc
• Contribute to building our data science culture and processes as we continue to scale

Preferred Qualifications

• [Not required but highly valued] Experience with ad platforms and recommender systems
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences and topics
• Eagerness to learn new techniques, strong prioritization skills

Benefits

• 20 Days of PTO
• 4% 401K match
• $10k lifetime spend towards Carrot Fertility
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision options
• Free access to Ginger mental health, Gympass, Headspace, One Medical, Rightway, Sofi, and Spring Health
• Fair, equitable, and competitive salaries. Propel believes that everyone should be compensated fairly and equitably