Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confluent is pioneering a cloud-native data infrastructure platform focused on real-time data in motion. The Senior Data Scientist will define product roadmaps, measure feature success, uncover growth opportunities, and influence product strategy through quantitative analysis, experimentation, and actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Own prioritization for your domain and collaborate with product managers, engineers, marketing leads, and other stakeholders to define the data science roadmap for your product area
- Work across the org to define and measure success metrics for new features and initiatives
- Utilize data to uncover trends, identify opportunities for growth, drive strategic product decisions, and shape product roadmaps
- Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to improve product experience
- Share actionable insights and recommendations with leadership at various levels, playing a pivotal role in determining Product strategy
- Collaborate with other data scientists across our organization to share best practices, learn new analytical techniques, and champion an organizational culture where data is central to decision making
- Peer review teammates’ work and provide feedback, working to upskill more junior team members
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years of experience in Data Science/Analytics
- Strong proficiency in data manipulation with data querying languages (e.g. SQL) and scripting languages (e.g. Python)
- Experience with A/B testing and experiment best practices
- Excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels of the organization
- Some travel may be required based on business demand
- IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
- Master's Degree
- Experience in SaaS/Product-led Growth companies
- Exceptional problem solving skills and analytical skills
- Proficiency in data visualization and building dashboards with tools such as Tableau
- Experience and knowledge of causal inference, machine learning and other advanced analytical methods
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- 401(k)
- Cash balance pension plan
- IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial counseling
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- 12 paid holidays
- Minimum 56 hours sick time
- 120 hours vacation
- 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy
- Other Paid Care Leave programs
- Paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on IBM’s personalized, AI-driven learning platform
- Industry-recognized certifications
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups
- Giving and volunteer opportunities
- Discounts on retail products, services & experiences
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