Wealthfront

Data Scientist, Marketing

Palo Alto, CA. Posted 20 months ago

The role

You will work inside the Marketing team as a Data Scientist. You will analyze campaign performance, design experiments, and model media mix and client revenue to help acquire new clients and grow brand awareness.

What you will do

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of data scientists in Marketing.
  • Translate business problems into data science tasks.
  • Collaborate with the Marketing team to define quarterly and yearly initiatives.
  • Turn initiatives into projects with clear rationale, approaches and milestones.
  • Execute projects through hands-on work and delegation, tracking progress in weekly meetings.
  • Explain assumptions, methods and outcomes to specialists across disciplines.
  • Turn hunches into hypotheses and numbers into recommendations.

Required qualifications

  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research or Natural Sciences.
  • 4-8 years of prior experience as a Data Scientist.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Strong foundation in practical statistics, including causal inference.
  • Strong mathematical and software engineering skills.
  • Fluency in long and short form oral and written communication.
  • Ability to sharpen or reframe project requirements through collaboration.
  • Strong desire and ability to mentor junior Data Scientists.

Nice to have

  • Experience in a marketing-facing role.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision and dental coverage.
  • 401K plan.
  • Generous time off.
  • Parental leave.
  • Wellness reimbursements.
  • Professional development.
  • Employee investing discount.
  • More benefits listed.

Before you apply

  • Review the candidate privacy notice before applying.

About the company

Wealthfront builds low-cost, easy-to-use financial products, including automated investing, cash accounts, brokerage and mortgages. Its mission is a financial system that favors people, not institutions.

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