Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Petco is a pet-focused retailer providing products, services, and veterinary care across its omnichannel business. The Data Scientist will build and productionize machine learning models, data pipelines, and analytical capabilities related to customers, pricing, inventory, space, and assortment, while delivering insights and recommendations to business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, optimize, and productionize machine learning frameworks to quantify the impact our actions on Petco’s omni-channel business
- Create new data pipelines using the latest technologies that seamlessly integrate with multiple databases at Petco
- Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance
- Identify scalable opportunities by analyzing historical data and collaborate with business stakeholders to assess their impact
- Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters
- Provide requirements to develop analytic capabilities, platforms, and pipelines
- Apply statistical or machine learning knowledge to identify and solve specific business problems and data
- Conduct written and verbal presentation to share insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication
- Utilize code (Python/R/SQL) for data analyzing and modeling algorithms
- Conducts tracking and measurement of KPIs related to multiple business areas
- Mentor data scientists and associate data scientists on technique and process
- Interact professionally and effectively through verbal and written communication with all professional contacts with emphasis on company interests
- Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes
- Perform other related duties, tasks and responsibilities as required, assigned and directed
Skills
- MS/PhD in Statistics, Math, Engineering, Economics or related field
- Previous experience working with Machine Learning/Deep Learning for real world problems is a must
- Must be self-driven and passionate about retail and must be customer centric
- Demonstrable track record of dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in a dynamic environment
- 2+ years' experience in business analytics and data science
- Proficient with SQL
- Hands on experience with BI tools; Tableau /R shiny/Looker
- Ability to explain/present complicated/advanced analytical methodology and results to non-technical audiences
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent quantitative modeling, statistical analysis skills and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency with multiple analytics tools required; Python or R strongly preferred
- Related experience in a retail organization is a strong plus
Benefits
- Remote work
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