Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. North is hiring a Data Scientist for its Commitments team. The role analyzes cloud usage forecasts, coverage targets, and purchase recommendations; quantifies risk and savings; and partners with engineers and product teams to improve and measure recommendation quality.
Responsibilities
- Analyze how usage forecasts become coverage targets and purchase recommendations, and work with Commitments engineers on how to improve them
- Quantify risk and expected savings for each recommendation so customers and our team can trust the numbers
- Analyze commitment performance across customers to find where our approach works and where it doesn't
- Work with engineers to turn your findings into product changes, and measure their impact
- Define how we measure recommendation quality, and report on it in terms the business understands
- Explain your methods and results clearly to engineers, product, and customer-facing teams
Skills
- 4+ years of experience as a data scientist, where your analysis shaped product or business decisions
- Strong foundation in statistics, with experience turning forecasts into decisions
- Fluency in Python and SQL, and comfort working with large, messy usage and billing datasets
- Experience with optimization or decision-making under uncertainty
- Experience working closely with engineers and product, and turning complex analysis into practical recommendations
- Clear writing, and the ability to explain uncertainty to people who need to make a decision
- Pragmatic, informed use of AI tools to speed up analysis and coding
- Experience with cloud pricing, reserved instances, savings plans, or committed use discounts
- Background in finance, pricing, or risk modeling
- Experience with machine learning methods
- Experience designing experiments or causal analyses to measure the impact of changes
- Experience working with large datasets on AWS
- Familiarity with FinOps concepts
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave; birthing parents receive an additional 4 weeks at 50% pay
- Two company-wide breaks per year: one around Labor Day and one at the end of the year
- Aetna Medical PPO plan with the majority of the premium covered by North
- Dental and vision insurance
- Flexible spending account (FSA) for health expenses and commuter benefits
- 30 day sabbatical every 4 years
- Hybrid role based in New York City, with an office in Dumbo, Brooklyn; team members typically work in the office 2–3 days per week, or remote in the US
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