About the role

  • Senior Data Scientist at Thumbtack leading data-driven decision-making through analytics and collaboration with cross-functional partners. Delivering insights and mentoring others for company-wide impact.

Responsibilities

  • Identify, scope, and deliver high-impact projects end-to-end, leveraging the right resources and partners
  • Proactively coordinate and collaborate with stakeholders to maximize the impact and adoption of your work
  • Clearly communicate insights and business implications to audiences ranging from technical to executive, using the right level of complexity and narrative to influence decisions and roadmaps
  • Develop frameworks and measurement approaches that make complex marketplace and product questions intuitive and actionable
  • Apply rigorous analytical and causal inference methods (e.g., experimentation, quasi-experimental designs, forecasting/measurement) balancing rigor with practical constraints (time, complexity, marginal value)
  • Own and improve shared decision-making programs and infrastructure, such as experimentation practices, market-based testing, and impact measurement
  • Design, build, and maintain shared DS tooling and reusable assets (e.g., notebooks, libraries, training, standardized metrics, and key models that empower other teams)
  • Mentor other scientists/analysts and lead trainings/courses to raise the bar for scientific decision-making across the company

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional experience in economics, analytics, or data science (e.g. in tech, consulting, government, etc)
  • Proficiency with empirical econometrics toolkit (experimentation; methods for causal inference such as IV; panel data methods; discrete models; etc)
  • Proficiency with SQL
  • Proficiency with R or Python, including strong data visualization skills
  • Strong communication skills: able to communicate complex methods in intuitive and simple ways, easily able to adapt messaging to fit the audience, able to identify/highlight key information
  • Ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and with senior leadership
  • Proficiency with data wrangling and organizing data for different models or analyses; and organized workflows and project management skills

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$168,300 - CA$217,800 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

PythonSQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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