Senior Data Scientist - GTM

Description

Sprout Social is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join its Data Science and AI team.

Why join Sprouts Data Science and AI team

Sprout empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense power and opportunity of social media in todays digital-first world. Processing over one billion social messages daily our platform serves up essential insights and actionable information to over 30000 brands informing strategic decisions that drive business growth and innovation and fostering deeper authentic connections to their end customers. Our full suite of social media management solutions includes comprehensive publishing and engagement functionality customer care solutions influencer marketing connected workflows and business intelligence. Were actively working to intuitively weave AI throughout our products and applying them internally to drive our businesss growth trajectory.

What youll do

• Lead the end-to-end development of statistical models and data analysis managing projects from concept to delivery.
• Work closely with various go-to-market teams to solve complex business challenges driving revenue growth for the company.
• Drive a wide range of business analytics strategic analysis predictive modeling efforts and self-service insights through BI ensuring insights are actionable timely impactful and aligned with strategic goals.
• Apply data science methodologies including experimentation and causal analysis to evaluate business strategies and optimize decision-making.
• Translate complex data insights into compelling narratives tailored for stakeholder and executive audiences ensuring clarity relevance and impact on GTM decision-making
• Empower team growth by upholding our standards and fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration

What youll bring

Were looking for an experienced and passionate data scientist who is eager to collaborate with sales marketing revenue and other departments and provide data-driven solutions to business leaders. If you excel at statistical modeling and data driven storytelling all while being motivated by solving critical business problems wed love to talk with you!

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• 5 years of experience as a data scientist working with non-technical stakeholders
• 5 years of experience driving GTM decision-making through strong proficiency in SQL for querying transforming and analyzing large datasets as well as conducting statistical data analysis in Python including modeling and data visualization with BI tools like Tableau.
• A track record of quantifiable business impact through data science solutions in areas such as revenue finance sales or go-to-market functions with proven storytelling ability to translate insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders and executives.

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• Comfortable leading projects in an ambiguous environment and defining processes
• Broad and deep expertise in statistical ML and AI methods with a focus on solving business-oriented problems such as customer lifetime value prediction churn analysis forecasting and segmentation.
• Experience with model services deployment technologies and ML-Ops practices
• Familiar with cloud services and databases such as GCP AWS and Azure
• Experience designing self-service analytics tools that enable revenue finance sales and GTM teams to access insights independently.

How youll grow

Within 1 month youll plant your roots including:

• Complete Sprouts New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
• Learn about our teams data science and data analytics best practices.
• Become familiar with our existing services and available data.
• Begin meeting with various departments and stakeholders to understand existing problem spaces and needs.
• Work with your manager to define the first project youll work on and start the data analysis process

Within 3 months youll start hitting your stride by:

• Contribute to an analytics initiative
• Continue learning about Sprouts products customers and business structure to suggest new data projects that will impact growth

Within 6 months youll be making a clear impact through:

• Delivering your first analytics asset(s) providing actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Contribute to our longer-term roadmap of data and analytics at Sprout
• Define best practices and guide strategy for our GTM data science practice

Within 12 months youll make this role your own by:

• Continuing to develop data science solutions to transform data into actionable insights driving business impact
• Identify new opportunities for data science-backed capabilities
• Continue to build relationships with department leaders and executives
• Contribute to elevating the technical excellence of the team and analytics best practices at Sprout
• Expand your skills by learning from other data analysts and data scientists at Sprout.
• Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we havent even considered yet.

Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager

Our Benefits Program

Were proud to regularly be recognized for our team product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipmentyour computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our program and employee-led diversity equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicagos Loop and downtown Seattle for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However we are not set up in all states so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

Individual base pay is based on various factors including work location relevant experience and skills the responsibility of the role and job duties/requirements. In the United States we have two geographic pay zones. For this role our current base pay ranges for new hires are:

• Zone 1 (New York California Washington): $153120 (min) $191400 (mid) $229680 (max) USD annually
• Zone 2 (All other US states): $139200 (min) $174000 (mid) $208800 (max) USD annually

The listed ranges represent the full earning potential in this position. Starting salaries for well-qualified new hires are typically around the midpoint of the range. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable consistent and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employees total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprouts equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical dental vision basic life accidental death and dismemberment insurance and Modern Health (a wellness benefit). Employees are able to enroll in Sprouts companys 401k plan in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers Flexible Paid Time Off and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employees full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race color religion national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disability pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.

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For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster and (2) Sprout Socials Affirmative Action Statement.

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