Senior Data Scientist
LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future.
Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands.
Responsibilities:
- Development of prototype solutions, mathematical models, algorithms, machine learning techniques, and robust analytics to support analytic insights and visualization of complex data sets for productization and monetization
- Drive innovation by exploring new experimentation methods and statistical techniques that could sharpen or speed up our product decision-making processes
- Develop and deploy testing hypotheses and analyze test results, providing the necessary analytical rigor to ensure data quality, consistency, repeatability, and accuracy of insights
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional experience with a proven track record of leveraging data science to drive significant business impact or to develop data/algorithm based products
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Econometrics or related field
- Statistical knowledge and intuition - ideally utilized in A/B testing
- Experience with distributed databases and query languages like Hive, Spark, Scala, or Pig
- Programming experience with a scripting language such as Python, Perl, Java, or Ruby
- Experience writing high performance compiled code, ideally in C++
- Proficiency with a statistical analysis tool such as R or SAS
- Machine learning experience
- Ability to tell a story with data – What does the analysis tell you? What do you think the business should do next? Why do you think what is happening, is happening? Ability to influence others with the story of what you’re seeing in the data to make business recommendations
- Excellent time and project management skills, with the ability to manage detail work and communicate project status effectively to all levels
- Proven track record in meeting aggressive deadlines
Preferred Education:
PhD or MS degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, CS, Econometrics or related field
Benefits:
- Fully stocked snacks, beer fridge, cold brew kegs, frequent catered lunches, company dodgeball team, and whiskey hours
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
- Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus
- Medical/Dental/Vision plans, Matching 401(k), pension program