Senior Data Scientist

The role

You will use statistics, machine learning, and data visualizations to identify strategic business opportunities and build robust datasets. You will collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to drive value through analytical solutions.

What you will do

• Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and data engineers to define and refine data for analysis and modeling
• Establish cross departmental relationships to understand business problems
• Analyze and build large datasets to extract insights for model development and customer behavior
• Prioritize projects based on business impact and lead large scale projects
• Build models using statistical and machine learning techniques
• Become an expert of the Ibotta Data Ecosystem
• Inform experimental design to address business challenges
• Provide data science mentoring and education to the team and others

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience making significant impacts in a professional data science or machine learning role
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field
• Applied machine learning and statistical algorithms to optimize processes, predict outcomes, forecast trends, and enhance decision-making
• Expert-level Python knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills
• Expert-level knowledge, skills, and abilities in database manipulation, query languages, and graph data schemas
• Experience manipulating complex data to apply business rules for improved feature engineering within data lakes, distributed systems, and data streams

Nice to have

• Broad-scale community contributions to the fields of data science and machine learning in the way of conference presentations, professional publications, and/or recognized internet presence
• Spark or PySpark experience
• Solid understanding of experimental design and time series analysis
• Experience in MLOps

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Flexible time off
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 401k match
• Paid parking
• Snacks
• Occasional meals
• Relocation bonus

Before you apply

• Candidates must live in the United States
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

About the company

Ibotta is a performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions through the Ibotta Performance Network. The company is headquartered in Denver.