Data Scientist - Remote

Overview

Lightspeed is seeking an experienced and skilled Data Scientist to join our growing team. As a Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in leveraging data-driven insights to enhance our business strategies, drive innovation, and optimize decision-making processes. Sitting on our newly established Data Science Enablement team, you will focus on building predictive and prescriptive models to solve a range of problems across various business units. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable solutions that drive our organization's growth and success.

In Short

• Conduct data analysis using statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive models for business metrics.
• Utilize various data sources and preprocessing techniques.
• Collaborate with business leaders for data-driven insights.
• Identify opportunities to leverage data for product and operational improvements.
• Deliver machine learning models for impactful business applications.
• Validate and assess the performance of deployed models.
• Create clear data visualizations and reports.
• Translate analytical results into actionable business insights.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Master's or Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
• Proven experience as a Data Scientist.
• Expertise in Python & SQL, and data manipulation libraries.
• Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP).
• Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, or Power BI).
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.

Benefits

• Join a growing team and help us move to the next level.
• Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders.
• Constant development of skills and business acumen.
• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture.
• Innovation time to explore and learn at work.
• Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees.
• Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles.
• Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company.
• Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, and make your mark.