Principal Data Scientist

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Principal Data Scientist

at LeafLink

New York, New York, United States

About LeafLink

LeafLink is the regulated cannabis industry's largest wholesale marketplace, providing licensed dispensaries the ability to order from their favorite brands, as well as a suite of software tools for those brands to manage and scale their operations.

With thousands of retailers and thousands of brands across 26 territories in the US and Canada, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink annually processes and manages more than $3 Billion in annualized wholesale cannabis orders - you can learn more about our history and path to $1B here http://firstbillion.leaflink.com/.

Our team, backed by funding from leading VC's, is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Built In NYC's 'Best Places to Work in 2021', as well as one of Fast Company's 'Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2020', joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare - and we're just getting started!

The Role

LeafLink is seeking a proven leader and expert in applied data science to join our New York team. The ideal candidate will possess experience and acumen of understanding business opportunities and challenges in a marketplace ecosystem and applying data science tools to solve them. You have built and deployed into production machine learning models. You are passionate about keeping up with the trends in the data science space and introducing industry leading concepts to keep LeafLink ahead of the curve. You love breaking down complex technical solutions into easy to understand concepts for a non-technical audience and showcase business value. You deeply value frequent and detailed communication to foster alignment and cross-functional collaboration to ensure data science solutions are grounded in full context of the business and align with stakeholder expectations. Above all, you firmly believe that data science applications should drive business value for all stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as subject matter experts in developing and deploying advanced data science workflows and technologies for marketplace use cases
  • Build and deploy rapid prototypes as concept demonstrators to business stakeholders and product managers
  • Propose compelling solutions and intelligent on-platform features driving stickiness and value for LeafLink customers
  • Partner with product managers on enabling data-driven features on platform through application of advanced analytics and ML
  • Drive a test and learn culture at LeafLink by developing processes for conducting feature experiments and inferring impact on key performance metrics
  • Communicate results and business value of experimentation and ML work to a non-technical audience
  • Develop patterns and framework for ML Operations and experimentation at LeafLink in partnership with DevOps and Data Engineers
  • Mentor and coach other data scientists and analysts on the team to develop data science expertise
  • Test and recommend right fit technology choices to augment the data stack at LeafLink

Qualifications:

  • Expert level skills in SQL & Python
  • Significant experience in feature engineering on structured and unstructured data
  • Strong familiarity building ML Pipelines using popular Python based frameworks such as sklearn, keras, spark mlib, pytorch
  • Well versed working with at least one ML Ops management platforms such as ML Flow, Databricks, AWS SAgemaker, h2o.ai
  • Accomplished in experiment design, causal inference and inferential statistics is a must have
  • Qualified working in a SaaS or product based technology environment working alongside Developers, DevOps, Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers.
  • Experience using Airflow to build workflows incorporating feature extraction, running model predictions and persisting output of model to data stores  
  • Driver in deploying models in high velocity streaming data environments using Spark or other frameworks
  • A pro at working within AWS environment; Redshift preferred
  • Proven background managing or leading data scientists on projects
  • Comfortable using Git to share and manage code
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced growth business with many collaborators
  • Strong knowledge working across the stack when need arises

Benefits:

  • Flexible PTO to give our employees a little extra R&R when they need it  
  • Competitive compensation and 401k 
  • Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) 
  • Company sponsored Annual Citibike Membership for NYC employees
  • Commuter Benefits through a Flexible Spending Account
  • A robust stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in LeafLink’s success

LeafLink’s employee-centric culture has earned us a coveted spot on BuiltInNYC’s Best Places to Work for in 2021 list. Learn more about LeafLink’s history and the path to our First Billion in Wholesale Cannabis Orders here.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • VueLibraries
    • DjangoLibraries
    • DjangoFrameworks
    • VueFrameworks
    • AWS RedshiftDatabases
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • RedisDatabases
    • AWS (Amazon Web Services)Services
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • KissmetricsAnalytics
    • IllustratorDesign
    • PhotoshopDesign
    • SketchDesign
    • AsanaManagement
    • JIRAManagement
    • WordpressCMS
    • LeafLink CRMCRM
    • MailChimpEmail
    • Google InboxEmail
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration

Location

In the heart of the Financial District, we're accessible to most subway lines, the path train, and ferries, with almost too many lunch options!

An Insider's view of LeafLink

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

On a large scale, the LeafLink team collaborates during “Huddle Booze Report” (HBR), a biweekly meeting where team leaders present on company KPIs, accomplishments, and challenges (with some beers). Every member of the team is welcome to comment or ask questions, bringing forth their thoughts and ideas.

Claire

Director of Operations, Marketplace

How do you make yourself accessible to the rest of the team?

As co-founder and CTO it’s important for me to maintain official communication channels with teams and individuals. We have various meetings that bring leadership together with teams which include sprint demos, retrospects, daily standups and one on one meetings. Open communication supports alignment and productivity something we are all about here

Zach

Co-Founder and CTO

What are LeafLink Perks + Benefits

LeafLink Benefits Overview

LeafLink provides:

- Flexible PTO to give our employees a little extra R&R
- Competitive compensation and 401k
- Learning and Development stipend
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Commuter Benefits through a Flexible Spending Account
- A robust stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in LeafLink’s success

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Leaflink offers voluntary long-term and short-term disability plans.
Dental insurance
LeafLink's dental plan has no deductible and covers 100% of preventative services, including X-rays, and has a $5 co-pay.
Vision insurance
Our vision plan covers annual eye exams and lenses after a $20 copay. Frames and contact lenses are covered up to $100 annually.
Health insurance
Leaflink offers a range of Aetna plans that cover both in network and out of network providers, and have copays as low as $20. We also have complimentary enrollment in One Medical and Teladoc.
Life insurance
Our voluntary Life Insurance plans offer our employees financial stability and security.
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
LeafLink offers discounted Gym memberships to its full time employees.
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
LeafLink's 401k plan offers a broad range of available funds, including Vanguard, Fidelity, and American Funds.
Company equity
LeafLink offers stock options through our Stock Option Plan.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Leaflink's Flexible PTO policy allows our team to execute ferociously, with the knowledge that they will be able to rest and recharge when they need to.
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Leaflink offers 11 days per year for Major Holiday observance.
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
LeafLink offers pre-tax commuter benefits to all full time employees.
Company-sponsored outings
LeafLink has quarterly team outings, an annual holiday party, and an annual incentive trip.
Free snacks and drinks
LeafLink offers unlimited snacks, tea and coffee.
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
LeafLink has a generous annual budget for attending industry conferences and events.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within

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