On a mission to bring the joy of discovering a great deal to shoppers, Slickdeals thrives on the active participation of its 12-million-strong community. Users share, upvote, and uncover the best prices on popular products from trustworthy brands.
With a robust track record of 24 years in business, marked by profitability and a thriving community that has saved more than $10 billion, Slickdeals is currently undergoing a transformation. As we evolve into a daily shopping destination for millions more, joining Slickdeals presents an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurially minded builders to create an innovative deal discovery platform.
The Business Operations team at Slickdeals is seeking a Sr. Data Scientist, Business Analytics to build the tooling, processes, and reporting that will enable the company to deeply understand the dynamics of our ecosystem and how our users use the product. As one of the first Data Scientists on the Business team, you will be responsible for defining and measuring the health of the business and generating the quantitative insights that inform our business strategy. You will report directly into our Operations team.
- Report to the SVP, Deals and partner directly with the Business team leadership across Sales, Marketing, Community and Operations while working closely with Data Engineering
- Analyze large datasets using SQL and scripting languages to surface actionable insights and opportunities to the Business team and other key stakeholders
- Approach problems from first principles, using a variety of statistical and mathematical modeling techniques to research and understand advocate and customer behavior
- Design and analyze A/B experiments to evaluate the impact of changes we make to our operational processes and tools
- Design and build the business team's highest priority data sets through partnership with the data engineering team
- Build, forecast, and report on OKRs and KPIs that drive strategy and facilitate decision making for key business initiatives
- Build and share data visualizations and self-serve dashboards for your partners
- Effectively communicate your work with team leads and cross-functional stakeholders on a regular basis
- Work with Data Engineering to log new and useful data sources as we evolve Business processes, tooling, and features
- Drive decisions about Business tooling and process that improve data access, our learning velocity, and experiment hygiene
- A bachelor degree in statistics, data science, or similar STEM field with 5+ years of experience in a relevant role OR
- A graduate degree in statistics, data science, or similar STEM field with 2+ years of experience in a relevant role
- Advanced proficiency with Excel, SQL, and data visualization/business intelligence tools (ex. Tableau or Looker)
- Experience with scripting and data analysis programming languages, such as Python or R
- Experience with cohort and funnel analyses, predictive modeling, pattern recognition and a deep understanding statistical concepts such as selection bias, probability distributions, and conditional probabilities
- Experience combining disparate data into concise and usable data sets
- Demonstrated ability to motivate and empower teams to make good decisions with data and data visualizations
- Experience in a high-growth tech environment and bonus points if you have e-commerce or two-sided marketplace/crowdsourced experience
- Competitive salary and equity
- Competitive paid time off in addition to holiday time off
- A variety of healthcare insurance plans to give you the best care for your needs
- 401K matching above the industry standard
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program and LinkedIn Learning Membership
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
Slickdeals is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other protected status. Slickdeals will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the "Ban the Box" legislation. We may access publicly available information as part of your application.
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What We Do
Slickdeals is a community of millions of real people working together to save, so consumers can be confident they’re getting the best deal. Twelve million shoppers help other shoppers by vetting and voting up the very best products at the best prices from all the top retailers. Through the power of human intelligence, the community at Slickdeals has saved its savvy shoppers $10 billion. Slickdeals is one of the top ten most visited shopping sites in the U.S. per Similarweb.
Why Work With Us
We're leveling up across the board and that gets a venture where you have startup like themes of hustle, opportunity, and growth potential, while also having benefits of a 21 year old organization like resources, learnings, and data against which to make decisions.
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