Job Description
As a MLE within the Growth Data Science team, you will lead projects that help with Square’s growth. The team exists to surface the right messages to the right sellers at the right time across all our go-to-market channels (web app, in-app, notifications, sms, email, mail) and products. We provide sellers with remarkable personalized experiences using machine learning/deep learning to power the best product/feature/content recommendations.
Our algorithms obtain value from our unique, rich, and growing data. We partner with business, product, operations and engineering teams to guide better decisions, automated and human, using modeling and machine learning. We’re a passionate team of specialists, statisticians, and optimizers who are resourceful in distilling questions, wrangling data, and driving impactful business decisions.
YOU WILL:
Lead and drive cross functional machine learning/data science projects from beginning to end: build relationships with partner teams, frame and structure questions, collect and analyze data, research, prototype, and build out data science pipelines and models in production, as well as summarize and present methodology and key insights
Use and learn a diverse set of techniques spanning machine learning (including deep learning), causal inference, and other forms of statistical modeling to solve import business and product problems
Collaborate with business leaders, subject matter experts, and decision makers to develop success criteria and optimize new products, features, policies, and models
Help build the next generation of data products at Square
Qualifications
YOU HAVE:
2+ years industry experience in data science or machine learning-focused roles
An advanced degree (M.S., PhD.), preferably in Statistics, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, Economics, or a related technical field
A strong track record of performing data analysis using Python (numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc.) and SQL
Familiarity with Linux/OS X command line, version control software (git), and general software development
Experience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems
The versatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job
The ability to clearly communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
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