Senior Data Scientist, Ring Data Science and Engineering

Senior Data Scientist, Ring Data Science and Engineering

Job ID: 2775999 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Come build the future of smart security with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of devices and services designed to keep people close to what’s important?

ABOUT RING
We started in a garage in 2012 when our founder asked a simple question: what if you could answer the front door from your phone? After many late nights and endless tinkering, our first Video Doorbell was born. This invention has grown into over a decade of groundbreaking products and next-level features. At Ring, we’re committed to helping you be there for what matters.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior Data Scientist within Ring Data Science and Engineering plays a pivotal role in shaping how we carry the voice of our customers. This role will build scalable solutions and models to support our business functions (Subscriptions, Product, Customer Service). By leveraging statistical analysis and machine learning, you will explain, quantify, predict and prescribe to inform critical business decisions.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive shared understanding among business, engineering, and science teams of domain knowledge of processes, system structures, and business requirements.
• Apply domain knowledge to identify product roadmap, growth, engagement, and retention opportunities; quantify impact; and inform prioritization.
• Advocate technical solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, and executive level decision makers.
• Lead development and validation of state-of-the-art technical designs (data pipelines, data models, causal inference, predictive models, data insights/visualizations, etc).
• Contribute to the hiring and development of others.
• Communicate strategy, progress, and impact to senior leadership.

A day in the life

• Translate/Interpret complex datasets describing customer behavior, messaging, content, product design, and financial impact.
• Measure/Quantify/Expand critical data to support decision making.
• Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources and fine-tuning model parameters.
• Explore/Enlighten by formalizing assumptions about user behavior and identifying anomalies.
• Utilize code (Python/R/SQL) for data analyzing and modeling algorithms.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of data scientist experience
• 5+ years of experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab)
• Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in modeling and analysis, and in deploying machine learning / deep learning models in production.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience managing data pipelines
• Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team
• Knowledge of AWS tech stack (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, EC2, Glue)
• Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science
• Domain knowledge of comparable products and services

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