Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Evolve is on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. The company is seeking a hands-on Staff Data Scientist to lead applied machine learning and data science initiatives, build production ML systems, and contribute to forecasting, pricing, causal measurement, and optimization. The role also sets technical direction, mentors data scientists, and partners cross-functionally to deliver measurable business impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction and hands-on delivery of one or two prioritized applied ML or data science initiatives at a time
- Translate business opportunities into clear decision frameworks, technical approaches, success measures, and plans for adoption and impact evaluation
- Build and operate ML systems end to end, including data and feature pipelines, training and evaluation, batch or online inference, deployment, monitoring, failure handling, and iteration
- Contribute directly to forecasting, demand and price-elasticity estimation, causal measurement, and optimization work that supports pricing and revenue decisions
- Design and analyze experiments and quasi-experiments to evaluate product, model, and policy changes
- Establish reusable standards for testing, reproducibility, versioning, observability, documentation, and responsible model operation; review designs and code across the team
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Revenue Management, and other business owners to make technical tradeoffs and integrate models into products and operating workflows
- Mentor data scientists, raise the team's technical judgment, and create leverage beyond your own projects while remaining hands-on
Skills
- Typically 6+ years applying data science, statistics, econometrics, or machine learning to consequential business problems
- Evidence of Staff-level scope: you have led ambiguous, cross-functional DS or ML work from idea through sustained production use, influenced technical direction beyond one project, and created leverage for other contributors
- Strong Python and SQL skills, including the ability to write tested, maintainable production code and work effectively with large datasets
- Experience owning production ML systems, including deployment or scoring, monitoring, failure handling, operational support, and iteration after launch
- Strong applied-statistics and model-evaluation judgment, including experimentation or causal-inference fundamentals and the ability to contribute to economic or optimization work
- Ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and communicate tradeoffs clearly to technical, product, business, and executive audiences
- A self-directed, collaborative working style: you can prioritize across a broad problem space, receive and give direct feedback, influence without formal authority, and remain hands-on in a lean, remote team
- All Evolve team members must live in one of our approved locations by their first day. We can hire from anywhere in the U.S. except D.C. and Hawaii. Some positions may also have restrictions based on compensation in the following states: California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington
- An advanced degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent depth demonstrated through applied work
- Demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, revenue management, price-elasticity estimation, econometrics, causal inference, or optimization
- Snowflake, dbt, cloud orchestration, and practical MLOps or model-governance patterns
- Marketplace, travel, hospitality, or another domain where models influence high-frequency operating decisions
- NLP, LLM, voice, or other unstructured-data products
Benefits
- Equity in the company
- A 401(k) with a 4% immediate vesting match
- 16-18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents
- 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Infertility coverage
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision for individual coverage
- A low-cost medical option
- 10 free mental health visits
- Pet insurance
- Generous PTO
- RTO (for full-time exempt employees)
- Sick leave
- Holidays
- A personal holiday to celebrate what matters most to you
- Annual Evolve travel credit after one year
- Discounts on stays at all Evolve properties
- World-class onboarding programs
- Learning and development resources to help you grow your impact
- Employee Resource Groups celebrating our diverse communities at Evolve
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