**Experienced Full Stack Data Scientist – Web & Cloud Application Development at blithequark**

Are you a data enthusiast with a passion for driving business growth through data-driven insights? Do you have a knack for developing innovative solutions that transform the retail landscape? If so, we invite you to join blithequark's Data Ventures team as a Staff Data Scientist. In this role, you'll be part of a dynamic team that's revolutionizing the way we serve customers, empower associates, and drive business success. **About blithequark's Data Ventures** Our Data Ventures team is a nimble startup incubated within blithequark, building a best-in-class suite of data products to provide actionable, customer-centric insights and support business decision-making. We're focused on delivering omni-channel 360-degree performance, and our work has a direct impact on the lives of millions of customers worldwide. **Job Responsibilities:** As a Staff Data Scientist, you'll be the tech lead for all data science-related work, focusing on Customer Data Science initiatives that drive business growth and customer satisfaction. Your key responsibilities will include: * **Data Source Identification:** + Understand the requirements and service level agreements for various data sources. + Define and identify the most suitable data sources for required insights, leveraging external resources as needed. + Perform preliminary data quality checks on extracted data. + Review deliverables from junior team members and provide guidance. * **Problem Formulation:** + Analyze business problems within your area of expertise and challenge assumptions to help the business understand the root cause. + Identify and recommend solutions to business problems, setting data analytics, big data analytics, and automation goals and deliverables based on setup achievement standards. + Quantify business impact and develop key metrics to measure progress and effectiveness. * **Analytical Modeling:** + Select suitable modeling strategies for complex problems with large-scale, multiple structured and unstructured data sets. + Develop variables and features iteratively based on model responses in collaboration with the business. + Conduct exploratory data analysis activities (e.g., basic statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, statistical inferences) on to-be-had data. + Identify dimensions and designs of experiments and create test and research frameworks. + Interpret data to identify trends and patterns across future data sets. + Develop continuous, online learning models, including iterative model enhancements. + Develop new strategies (e.g., advanced machine learning algorithms, vehicle mobile ML) by leveraging the latest developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence to teach algorithms to use models on new data sets. * **Model Deployment & Scaling:** + Ability to work with MLOps to push ML models to production. + Continuously log and track model behavior once deployed against described metrics. + Identify model parameters that may need adjustments based on the scale of deployment. * **Code Development & Testing:** + Write code to develop the specified solution and application capabilities by identifying the right programming language and leveraging business, technical, and data requirements. + Create test cases to learn and validate the proposed solution design. + Create proofs of concept. + Test the code using the right testing method. + Contribute code documentation, maintain playbooks, and provide timely development updates. * **Applied Business Acumen:** + Evaluate proposed business cases for projects and initiatives. + Influence business stakeholder decision-making. + Translate business requirements into strategies, projects, and initiatives and align them to business method and goals and drive the execution of deliverables. + Build and articulate the business case and go back on investment and grants work that has demonstrable value. + Challenge business assumptions on topics related to your area of expertise. + Develop new organization-wide approaches and methods to working. + Teach and mentor others on best practices. + Proactively engage in the external network to build blithequark's brand and research more about business practices. * **Model Assessment & Validation:** + Identify and review model assessment metrics based on analytical requirements. + Apply appropriate strategies for model testing and tuning to evaluate accuracy, fit, validity, and robustness. + Ensure testing data is documented and maintained by the team. * **Data Visualization and Storyteller:** + Identify and recommend the most suitable visualization tools based on context. + Generate suitable graphical representations of data and model outcomes. + Understand customer requirements to design suitable data representation for complex data sets and drive User Experience designers and User Interface engineers to build the front-end applications. + Define application layout based on customer requirements. + Build compelling stories based on context to combine multiple pieces of data into cohesive insights. + Present to and impact various audiences using the right frameworks and convey clear messages through deep business and stakeholder knowledge. + Customize communication style based on stakeholders and leverage relationships to drive behavioral change. + Guide and mentor junior team members on story types, structures, and strategies based on context. **What You'll Bring:** * Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 4 years of experience in an analytics-related field. * Deep knowledge and expertise in machine learning, statistics, and data science in general. * Strong programming skills in at least one of Python/R. * Ability to execute projects end-to-end, including junior team members. * Implement best practices in ML Ops, coding standards, etc. * Clearly communicate with business, product, and application partners. * Ability to translate complex algorithm evaluations into simple language. * Ability to present to management, including external clients. **What We Offer:** * Multiple health plan options, including vision & dental plans for you and dependents. * Financial benefits, including 401(k), stock buy plans, life insurance, and more. * Associate discounts in-store and online. * Education assistance for Associates and dependents. * Parental Leave. * Pay during military service. * Paid Time off, including vacation, sick, parental. * Short-term and long-term disability for when you cannot work due to injury, illness, or childbirth. **About blithequark:** At blithequark, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability—and everything in between. As a blithequark associate, you'll play a vital role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance, and many other industries—all while affecting the lives of millions of customers worldwide. If you're passionate about data science and want to join a dynamic team that's revolutionizing the retail landscape, apply now to become a Staff Data Scientist at blithequark's Data Ventures team. Apply for this job