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Sr. Data Scientist - Houzz

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Job Title
Sr. Data Scientist
Job Location
Remote - US
Job Description
About the Role

Houzz is looking for a world-class Sr. Data Scientist to join our Industry Solutions data science team. This team is focused on uncovering critical insights and delivering models to leverage those findings thus powering intelligent business decisions. As a Sr. Data Scientist here at Houzz you are on the front line of uncovering insights to directly impact Houzz Revenue.
What You'll Do
  • Collaborate with leadership, product, data, and engineering teams to identify, define, and launch strategic and operational data science initiatives to improve growth performance
  • Define key metrics (KPIs) to guide business decision-making across various aspects of our site
  • Manage the key metrics of the business and product efficiently
  • Design product experiments, interpret results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions, and conduct root cause analysis
  • Own the end-to-end execution of projects by working with a broad cross-functional team
  • Work with data infrastructure/product engineering teams to define the data collection needs
  • Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions
  • Develop and maintain data products to serve real-time business insights or to be used in production environments
  • Critical projects will focus on data-driven insights to guide product development and business direction
  • At a Minimum, We'd Like You to Have
  • Bachelors/Masters Degree with 4+ years of experience working within an analytical role in a high-growth tech company
  • Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries such as using aggregate functions and all types of joins using Hadoop, Hive and Presto. Strong programming skills in Python or R
  • Strong in problem-solving and analytical thinking to take an open business question from exploratory data analysis to actionable insights and guided execution recommendations
  • Proficiency in advanced experimental designing, testing, and analysis
  • Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • A passion for analytics and product development
  • Self-motivated, independent, and eager to learn
  • Ability to have fun!
  • Ideally, You'll Also Have
  • An advanced degree in a technical field such as Statistics, Operations Research, or Engineering
  • Experience with subscription based analytics, web/app user engagement, and funnel conversion
  • Ability to learn and act quickly, making decisions and drawing conclusions in the face of ambiguity
  • Experience with statistical modeling
  • Proficiency in using Tableau for visualization
  • Experience mentoring junior data scientists
  • Experience working with remote teams with a time zone difference
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    Houzz Headquarters Location

    Palo Alto, CA

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    Houzz Company Size

    Between 10 - 2,000 employees

    Houzz Founded Year

    2009

    Houzz Total Amount Raised

    $613,600,000

    Houzz Funding Rounds

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    • Series E

      $400,000,000 USD

    • Series D

      $165,000,000 USD

    • Series C

      $35,000,000 USD

    • Series B

      $11,600,000 USD

    • Series A

      $2,000,000 USD