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Data Scientist

Daily Wire

Data Scientist

Nashville, TN
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    The Daily Wire is searching for a talented Data Scientist to join our growing Data Science & Analytics team in Nashville, Tennessee!

    In this highly-visible role, the Data Scientist will work cross-functionally alongside Daily Wire's Product, Engineering, and Design teams to analyze on-platform data, automate reporting, visualize metrics and targets, and perform data deep-dives in order to surface insights that will inform and optimize the Daily Wire's user growth strategy. As a critical member of a dynamic team, this position will offer plenty of opportunities to land meaningful business impact and help shape both the cultural and journalistic landscapes of the United States.

    If you've got what it takes to be a Daily Wire data science expert, we look forward to hearing from you!

    RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Function as the key expert in all that pertains to the growth accounting funnel, from acquisition to retention, and leading deep audience research and segmentation analyses across platforms
    • Develop methods to improve the data collection, storage, visualization, and processing using machine-learning and data science
    • Work closely with the Engineering teams to guarantee the consistency and validity of metrics across multiple products and prototypes
    • Drive weekly metrics reports, and quarterly metrics presentations, with design and leadership teams
    • Perform analyses on large sets of data to extract impactful insights that will help the team and senior leadership understand the state of user growth
    • Drive the generation of insights from raw, unstructured data to improve existing features and explore future directions
    • Be an advocate for data-informed decision making, making recommendations about the impacts of various user growth efforts and evangelizing a data culture across the company
    • Perform other duties as assigned

    EXPERIENCE & REQUIREMENTS:

    • Nashville, TN -based position (working remotely is not an option)
    • Degree or 2+ years of work experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, or similar quantitative fields
    • Possess a deep understanding of numbers, a strong business sense for business performance drivers, and the skill to craft compelling and clear narratives using those data and insights
    • Experience in crafting, conducting, analyzing, and interpreting experiments and investigations
    • Experience articulating and translating business questions and using statistical techniques to arrive at defensible answers using available data
    • Experience developing data science pipelines, toolchains, and workflows in Python or R
    • Strong programming skills and experience with a scripting language for data processing and development (e.g., Python, MATLAB, R, Julia, Rust, or Scala)
    • 2+ years of proven experience building data science driven solutions to solve business problems
    • Ability to effectively collaborate in a dynamic and diverse environment in tackling loosely-defined challenges, working both independently and as part of a cross-functional analytics and strategy team
    • G-suite proficiency

    REPORTS TO: Vice President of Data Science & Analytics

    START DATE: Immediate

    EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-time; Exempt

    COMPENSATION: DOE

    BENEFITS: Health insurance options (medical through Blue Cross Blue Shield; dental and vision through Guardian); Paid Time Off; 401k (5% match)

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    Daily Wire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

    Please Note: Daily Wire participates in E-Verify and performs background checks on all new hires. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

    Thank you!