Senior Staff Data Scientist, Flagship

Location:

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This role will be based in Sunnyvale CA Bellevue WA New York NY or Remote.

Team Overview: 

The Flagship Growth Data Science team focuses on accelerating LinkedIn Growth with strategic and actionable insights and measurement in close collaboration with the rest of the Growth R&D team. System Insights DS team focuses on deepening understanding of and identifying opportunities in the intricate AI systems across Flagship. We work across different Growth and Flagship Experience areas including SEO/AEO login/signup new members notifications email networking Feed Search etc. and collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product Engineering AI Marketing Business Development Design and UER teams.

Responsibilities:

Serve as Technical Lead for Flagship Growth and AI System Insights Data Science team of 15-20 of Data Scientists. Beyond product ops & strategy and experimentations this individual will also be leading initiatives across AI model diagnostics & enhancements LLM-as-a-judge evaluation and productivity improvements through AI-powered tooling.

• Act as a thought partner to senior leaders to prioritize/scope projects provide recommendations and evangelize data-driven business decisions in support of strategic goals.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design as well as lead code/design reviews.

• Drive org-wide impact by shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations.

• Work with a team of high-performing data science professionals and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities optimize product performance or go to market strategy.

• Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data; develop deep-dive analyses and machine learning models to drive member value and customer success.

• Design and develop core business metrics create insightful automated dashboards and data visualization to track them and extract useful business and product insights.

• Develop and analyze experiments to test new product ideas or go to market strategies. Convert the results into actionable recommendations. Independently craft compelling stories; make logical recommendations; drive informed actions.

• Engage with technology partners to build prototype and validate scalable tools/applications end to end (backend frontend data) for converting data to insights.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• 7 years of relevant work experience as a Data Scientist Applied Scientist or Data Engineer.

• Bachelor or higher degree in a quantitative discipline: statistics operations research computer science informatics engineering applied mathematics economics etc.

• Experience influencing strategy through data-centric presentations .

• Experience in SQL Python and/or additional programming languages such as R and Scala. 

• Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package.

• Experience running platform experiments and techniques like A/B testing

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least (3) years of technical thought and/or team leadership experience in Data Science Applied Science Business Analytics or Data Engineering. 

• Masters or PhD degree in Statistics Data Science Engineering Economics Mathematics or a related discipline. 

• Experience with manipulating massive-scale structured and unstructured data.

• Experience mentoring and providing technical or thought leadership for other data scientists

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to synthesize simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audience including executives and compile compelling narratives.

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership 

• Experimentation & Causal Inference 

• Data Science 

• Coding with AI 

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Compensation: 

The pay range for this role is $174000 - $286000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus stock benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information visit Information :

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