Hi Data Scientist,

We have a client in Chicago, specifically in Buffalo Grove looking for a new Data Scientist to join a fast growing Data Science team ASAP.

Our client is in the Ecommerce industry and currently have 6 Data Scientist reporting into the Senior Manager. They are primarily a Python shop, but use some R as well. They see themselves moving toward Google Cloud Platform in the near future to any experience with Google Cloud Platform or any cloud platform is a huge selling point!

Additional Information

Role: Data Scientist
Location: Chicago IL (Buffalo Grove)
Level of Experience: 3-7 years
Employment Type: Contract (Contract to Hire)
Industry: Ecommerce

Primary Function:

Our Data Scientists are key contributors to the development customer, product, eCommerce, and pricing plans. The Data Science team covers a broad scope of projects including customer segmentation, A/B testing, marketing investment optimization, predictive modeling, promotion forecasting, and pricing analysis. We are closely integrated with our business leaders and support their ability to make critical decisions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other data scientists to develop and implement algorithms, write code, evaluate relevant academic research, and deliver outputs

• Advise the company about tools, data sources, and best practices to facilitate digital marketing, pricing, and web analytics

• Build predictive and inference models using Python and R to support business initiatives in the areas of customer acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, or channel investment optimization

• Document code and data science processes that are critical to the company, and develop strategies to ensure those processes are robust and fault-tolerant

• Communicate findings to business leaders and colleagues using data visualizations, presentations, and written means

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to assist business decision-making through data mining and machine learning

• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders. Must be able to interact cross-functionally and drive both business and technical discussions

• 5+ years' progressive business experience in areas including marketing analytics, database marketing, data mining, or statistical modeling. Experience using data science or advanced analytics in an Internet retailer or a top-tier consumer-focused company is required

• Ability to translate complex business problems into project plans and solve them by analyzing large amounts of data

• Familiarity with Python or R for statistical modeling, clustering, classification, machine learning, and data mining

• Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and cloud-hosted data platforms (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, etc)

• Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau or Looker, and ability to communicate results to business partners

• Master's degree preferred in quantitative fields such as Statistics, Engineering, Operational Research, or Economics

Sthree US is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.