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DatabricksDatabricksMountain View, CA

Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist building data-driven products and product analytics at Databricks. Works with PM, Sales, and CS stakeholders on usage forecasting and funnel analysis; mentors junior data scientists.

123k – 218k/yr
On-site3+ YOEData Science

About the role

Impact

  • Shape the direction of key data science areas including usage forecasting, product analytics, user behavior and funnel analysis.
  • Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Customer Success and other stakeholders to understand product usage patterns and trends and to make data-driven decisions and forecasts.
  • Manage stakeholders for their focus area - gather changing requirements, define project OKRs and milestones, and communicate progress and results to a non-technical audience.
  • Mentor and guide data-scientists on the team by helping with project planning, technical decisions, and code and document review.
  • Build self-serving internal data products to make data simple within the company.

Requirements

  • Experience in applying Data Science / ML in production to build data-driven products for solving business problems.
  • Familiarity with Product Analytics - understanding and tracking customer and user behaviour using lenses like adoption, churn, cohorts and funnel analysis.
  • Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions.
  • Strong coding skills in general purpose languages like Scala or Python, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment.
  • Proficient in data analysis and visualization using tools like R and Python.
  • Experience with distributed data processing systems like Spark and Hadoop, and proficiency in SQL.
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience mentoring other data scientists.

Skills

PythonScalaRSQLSparkHadoopMachine LearningData VisualizationProduct AnalyticsStatistical Modeling

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