Amplify · 3 hours ago
Senior Data Scientist
Amplify is a pioneer in K–12 education, leading in next-generation curriculum and assessment. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to analyze sales trends and develop sales forecast models to optimize revenue growth and strategic planning.
EdTechEducationHigher Education
Responsibilities
Develop sales forecasting excellence by building statistical and machine learning models to solve forecasting needs across business domains. Contribute to self-service forecasting data tools to enable real-time decision-making
Own the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including scoping, feature engineering, model training and testing, deployment, monitoring, and explainability
Drive strategic business partnership by translating technical model outputs into business-aligned recommendations and decision frameworks with forecast explainability and driver decomposition
Act as a leader in the data science team by mentoring junior data scientists, leading technical design reviews and learning sessions, and influencing roadmap and standards across the data science team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in a data science role or a graduate degree in a science or other quantitative field (eg. Computer Science, Economics, Math, Physics, Statistics) with at least 3 years focused on sales forecasting or revenue analytics
Expert knowledge of time series forecasting methods, e.g. ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM, etc
Expert user of either R or Python for data analysis tasks (data cleaning, manipulation, analysis)
Expert user of SQL, especially its use in data analysis tasks
Expert in the training and evaluating the performance of machine learning models leveraging industry standard libraries like PyTorch, scikit-learn, tidymodels, xGBoost
Proven track record of development and implementing machine learning pipelines running in production environments like AWS Sagemaker, Databricks or Snowflake
Demonstrated application of software development methodology and protocols, including version control and testing
Excellent communication skills in writing and conversation, especially with non-technical partners
Experience driving self-directed projects and working cross-functionally
Preferred
Experience working with Snowflake
Experience with container technologies, e.g. Docker and Kubernetes
Background in education or in edtech
Benefits
401(k) plan
Competitive health insurance and mental health options
Basic life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Access to best-in-class development programs
Company
Amplify
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and formative assessment.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$215MKey Investors
Cox Enterprises
2023-05-23Series C
2021-10-26Series Unknown· $215M
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