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.