at Sprout Social, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
Sprout Social is looking for a Staff Data Scientist, GTM to join its Data Science and AI team.
Why join Sprout's Data Science and AI team?
Sprout empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense power and opportunity of social media in today's digital-first world. Processing over one billion social messages daily, our platform serves up essential insights and actionable information to over 30,000 brands, informing strategic decisions that drive business growth and innovation, and fostering deeper, authentic connections to their end customers. Our full suite of social media management solutions includes comprehensive publishing and engagement functionality, customer care solutions, influencer marketing, connected workflows, and business intelligence. We're actively working to intuitively weave AI throughout our products and applying them internally to drive our business's growth trajectory.
What you'll do
Lead the end-to-end development of statistical models and data analysis, managing projects from concept to delivery.
Work closely with various go-to-market teams to solve complex business challenges, driving revenue growth for the company.
Present data findings to executives in a clear and actionable manner
Empower team growth by upholding our standards and fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration
What you'll bring
We're looking for an experienced and passionate data scientist who is eager to collaborate with sales, marketing, revenue, and other departments and provide data-driven solutions to business leaders. If you excel at statistical modeling and data driven storytelling, all while being motivated by solving critical business problems, we'd love to talk with you!
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
7+ years of experience as a data scientist working with non-technical stakeholders
5+ years of experience leveraging Python for model development and experience with several ML frameworks such as, scikitlearn, pandas, numpy, etc..
Broad and deep expertise in statistical, ML and AI methods, with a focus on solving business-oriented problems such as customer lifetime value prediction, churn analysis, and segmentation
Preferred qualifications for this role include:
Comfortable leading projects in an ambiguous environment and defining processes
Experience with model services, deployment technologies, and ML-Ops practices
Familiar with cloud services and databases such as GCP, AWS, and Azure
How you'll grow
Within 1 month, you'll plant your roots, including:
Complete Sprout's New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
Learn about our team's data science and data analytics best practices.
Become familiar with our existing services and available data.
Begin meeting with various departments and stakeholders to understand existing problem spaces and needs.
Within 3 months, you'll start hitting your stride by:
Work with your manager to define the first project you'll work on and start the data analysis process
Improve current models and develop new statistical models from scratch
Continue learning about Sprout's products, customers, and business structure to suggest new data projects that will impact growth
Within 6 months, you'll be making a clear impact through:
Present your data analysis findings to stakeholders
Contribute to our longer-term roadmap of data projects and ML models
Define best practices and guide strategy for our internal data science practice
Within 12 months, you'll make this role your own by:
Continuing to develop new statistical models based on business priorities
Identify new opportunities for data... For full info follow application link.
Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer.  We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at accommodations@sproutsocial.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster  (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement.
