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Basis Global Technologies, Inc. seeks Senior Data Scientist in Chicago, IL.

Duties:

Inquisitively interviewing business stakeholders to understand the end goals.\ Understanding business problems and nuances of the data involved before formulating solutions.\ Proactively seeking opportunities to help predict the outcomes of business decisions and mitigate potential threats to the business based on observable patterns in the data.\ Managing expectations and explaining existing technical limitations in a manner all stakeholders can understand.\ Identifying relevant data sources and outlining statistical or machine learning experiments needed to solve a problem.\ Performing quality checks on the data to ensure the integrity and usefulness of the data.\ Working with business stakeholders in creating appropriate metrics to measure the outcomes of the experiments.\ Understanding and implementing various optimization techniques (linear and non-linear) to optimize business metrics.\ Compiling outputs from the experiments and presenting results to the stakeholders in a way that is comprehensible by a non-technical audience.\ Creating data visualizations to tell the story from data and understanding what @types of visualizations are appropriate for the audience.\ Writing efficient and reusable code to process large amounts of data and performing data wrangling tasks needed for the experiments in a distributed environment.\ Possessing a thorough understanding of machine learning practices and understanding behind-the-scenes steps of machine learning algorithms.\ Selecting the most appropriate algorithm for a given task and explaining why a particular algorithm is better than others in solving the problem to both technical and nontechnical team members.\ Collaborating with stakeholders and communicating what is happening inside those algorithms in a manner that provides clarity and reassurance that the outcomes and recommendations of the algorithms can be trusted.\ Working with Product Operations and Engineering teams to create machine learning pipelines for running data science experiments.\ Coaching other data scientists with the best machine learning practices and helping the new team members during the onboarding process to bring them up to speed with the existing codebases and processes.\ Understanding product features that our company provides including how they interface with the end users, how the inputs from the users are collected in our software and represented in backend databases, and the underlying business processes that require these product features.

Requires a Bachelors degree in Applied Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field (or its equivalent) plus 2 years of experience.

Requires 2 years of professional experience working with statistical and machine learning experiments in digital advertising including real-time bidding (RTB) Requires 2 years of experience in the following:\ Statistical Models\ Data Extraction\ Machine Learning\ AI\ Big Data and Cloud Computing\ Telecommuting is permitted.

40 hours/week. \$140,000 - \$150,000. Must also have authority to work permanently in the U.S. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply at https://www.jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref 81797.

Basis Global Technologies, Inc.

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