**Experienced Full Stack Data Scientist – Web & Cloud Application Development**
Are you a highly skilled data scientist with a passion for driving business growth through data-driven insights? Do you have a strong background in machine learning, data analysis, and data visualization? Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role that will allow you to make a meaningful impact on a global scale? If so, we may have the perfect opportunity for you!
At blithequark, we're on a mission to help people find their inspiration and create a life they love. Our vibrant and dynamic team is dedicated to building innovative products and services that make a real difference in people's lives. As a Senior Data Scientist on our team, you'll play a critical role in helping us achieve our vision by developing and implementing data-driven solutions that drive business growth and improve user experiences.
**About blithequark**
Millions of people around the world come to blithequark to discover new ideas and inspiration every day. It's where they find concepts, dream about new opportunities, and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you'll be challenged to tackle work that upholds this mission and pushes blithequark forward. You'll develop as a leader in your field, all while supporting Pinners to make their lives better in the vast expanse of the internet.
**Creating a Life You Love**
At blithequark, we believe that finding a career that celebrates your unique perspectives and skills is a key part of living a fulfilling life. As you explore the expectations of this role, remember how your talents and experiences can supplement the responsibilities of the position. We encourage you to think creatively about how your applicable and transferable skills from previous roles can make a meaningful contribution to our team.
**Our Modern Work Version: PinFlex**
Our new flexible work model, PinFlex, is a unique approach to working and living that reflects our company's values and culture. As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll have the flexibility to work from anywhere, at any time, while still being connected to our global team and community.
**Conversion Information: The Key to Advertisements Reporting and ML Modeling**
Conversion information is the foundation for advertisements reporting and ML modeling at blithequark. Ensuring that our conversion information delivers a high signal-to-noise ratio of users' business intent is critical for providing business value to advertisers. We're seeking an experienced data scientist to help us shape the approach of conversion information quality and develop solutions for reinforcing the data foundation for our advertisements system. In this role, you'll work on a wide range of exciting data science challenges in this new frontier, including:
* Defining and analyzing data quality metrics
* Establishing causal relationships between users' online behaviors and conversions
* Developing metrics to measure the effectiveness of advertisements
* Designing and prototyping automated solutions to identify data quality issues and improve advertisements ML model performance
**What You'll Do**
As a Senior Data Scientist on our team, you'll be responsible for:
* Conducting deep-dive analysis to discover patterns in real-world user conversion data and quantify the impact of data quality issues on our advertisements system
* Analyzing causal connections between users' online behaviors and conversions, identifying causal relationships in data, and developing metrics to measure the effectiveness of advertisements
* Designing and prototyping automated solutions to identify data quality issues, develop high-sign education labels and features to improve advertisements ML model performance, and collaborating with engineers to integrate them into our advertisements system
* Collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams as a thought partner, providing data-informed guidance that shapes the future roadmap and drives long-term strategy for building a high-quality conversion information foundation
**What We're Looking For**
We're seeking a highly skilled and experienced data scientist with:
* 3+ years of hands-on experience as a data scientist, research scientist, or system learning engineer
* Proven ability to apply scientific methods to resolve real-world problems on web-scale data
* Proficiency in SQL/Hive and expertise in at least one scripting language (preferably Python/R)
* Strong business and product sense, with a passion for shaping ambiguous questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present findings to management and product teams
* Experience in causal inference and measurement, with familiarity of measuring causal impact using both online experimentation and observational studies
* Experience in data quality-related work, including quality assessment, anomaly detection, data cleaning, data governance, etc.
* Proven ability to design and implement machine learning models, preferably with biased/incomplete/noisy training data
* Deep knowledge of feature engineering and model evaluation is strongly preferred
**Proven Ability to Lead and Innovate**
We're looking for a data scientist who can independently explore an ambiguous area and shape the product roadmap and strategy through analytical efforts. If you have a passion for innovation, a strong work ethic, and a desire to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!
**Benefits and Perks**
At blithequark, we believe that our employees are our greatest asset. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
* Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
* Global year-end paid business closure
* Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
* Retirement plans that allow for tax savings (subject to country of employment)
* Mental health and well-being benefits
* Personal and professional development resources
* Adoption assistance, paid parental leave, egg freezing (in the US), and other family-building benefits
* Discounts and perks, including meals and snacks in the office
**US-Based Candidates Only**
We're seeking a US-based candidate for this role, with a salary range of $35-$45 USD per hour.
**Our Commitment to Diversity**
blithequark is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in each job. All qualified candidates will receive attention for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We also consider qualified candidates regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
**Are You the One We're Looking For?**
If you believe you have what it takes to join our team and make a meaningful impact, submit your application directly. We're eager to hear from talented candidates like you!
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