Crunchbase is hiring a
Staff Data Scientist in United States

Summary

Crunchbase is a company that connects people with companies and offers various products to help salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, job seekers, and others accelerate innovation. They value diversity and inclusion and have a remote-first approach. The engineering team is dynamic and fast-paced, while the Signals Team focuses on providing users with insightful information through machine learning systems. Crunchbase is hiring a Staff Data Scientist to help shape and build out the intelligence layer for their signals products, contributing to defining and enhancing their machine learning experimentation capabilities.

Requirements

• 6+ years of data science, machine learning or advanced quantitative analytics industry experience or equivalent in high growth companies
• Excellent communicator able to explain complex issues to stakeholders in simple terms
• Understand the product and deliver meaningful features that drive the business forward
• Highly efficient in Python
• Familiar with an array of analytics and data tools (e.g SQL, pandas etc)
• Find patterns in data
• Iterate fast and love trying different approaches rapidly
• Hands-on experience on shipping machine learning based projects in production and delivering significant impact to customers
• Believer in agile software, cross teams collaborations and data driven development and evaluation

Responsibilities

• Work on all aspects of the data science feature delivery cycle, from ideating, advocating future data needs, to assisting in model productionisation
• Develop statistical observations and predictive or prescriptive machine learning models according to business needs, data patterns and performance requirements
• Bring in a fresh perspective to the problem space and test out ideas quickly
• Own the PoC execution plan for multiple projects in parallel and carry out rapid experiments autonomously with the team
• Help drive the vision of Crunchbase predictive engine and turn our vision into product features

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Remote first policy
• Generous Reimbursement policy for learning and development activities
• Monthly fitness / mental health stipend
• 14 weeks of fully-paid time off for new parents
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off
• Incredible medical, vision and dental benefits for employees and their families
• 401(k) and Roth plans, and free annual financial adviser check-in
• Monthly internet stipend
• Work from home allowance to purchase furniture for your work from home space
• Annual carbon offset
• Matching charity contributions for our Townhall awards