Senior Data Scientist

Benefits We are the world’s largest meditation community of 18 million people, from 120 countries speaking 50 languages. We publish 60,000 free guided meditations and music tracks by 8,000 meditation teachers and musicians from around the world We have been featured by TIME, Forbes, The New York Times and Vogue, and our apps have picked up the Editors Choice award by Google, and App of the Day by Apple on multiple occasions throughout the world The Role. More time is spent on Insight Timer than all other meditation apps combined.

Data is one of our key competitive advantages as we have more variety and more depth than any other meditation app. This is a unique opportunity to be an integral part of building the nascent Data Science function at Insight Timer. We are hiring Machine Learning engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Research Scientists who are passionate about using data, ML and AI to better understand users and to offer new products and experiences that can help improve their lives As a Senior Data Scientist you will be integral to creating ML models and algorithms that are used in real life through creative experiments and new features.

You will be instrumental in improving our recommendation engine, proposing and validating new features and understanding our tremendous dataset at a deep level The team includes ex-Google and ex-Atlassian employees and is advised by the former Head of Data Science at LinkedIn. You will work cross functionally and collaborate with Engineers, Designers and Product Managers to bring your insights and ideas to life What you’ll do:. Wrangle with the data to develop a deep understanding of our business along numerous dimensions to develop insights and hypotheses that influence our ML models, algorithms and product decisions.

Design, run and analyse live experiments (A/B, multivariate and multi-armed bandit tests). Work with Machine Learning Engineering to improve our Machine Learning models to provide better content and social recommendations. Work with Data/Feature Engineering to continuously improve and enrich our feature set in creative ways so that we can continuously improve our models and algorithms.

Work with the business to communicate actionable insights based on in-depth understanding of our data. Requirements. Experience of managing a team of Data Scientists in a commercial setting.

Graduate or Masters degree in a technical field – engineering, economics, statistics or similar Solid understanding of statistical modelling (regression, clustering, decision trees, etc.). Proficiency with large-scale experimentation (testing hypotheses, causal inference).

Proficiency with data querying languages (SQL, BigQuery). Proficiency with wrangling and analysing data (Python, R). Experience with analytics tools (Tableau, Looker).

Bonus if experienced with deep learning framework, recommender systems and/or ETL tools and piping. Our team is a global bunch of conscious creators who are passionate about building products that make a difference. Like most of the world, we’ve transitioned to working from home and we’re working hard to keep our team connected.

We host team meditations, focus on our wellbeing, incorporate flexibility into our work week and celebrate our successes along the way. If your application matches what we are looking for we will be in touch Get alerts to jobs like this, to your inbox.