Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Wayfair
Causal Inference
A global online homeware marketplace
Open for applications
A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- PhD in Economics, Statistics or other quantitative field with an emphasis on causal inference
- 3 years of experience working as a professional ML or research scientist in causal inference. Consistent track record of autonomous delivery of DS/ML projects that drive measurable business impact
- Collaborative team player who wants to see themselves and others thrive
- Expertise in causal inference and interest in bringing best-in-class solutions to e-commerce space
- Takes a customer-centric approach to ideation and problem-solving
- Track-record of influencing non-technical stakeholders on strategic direction by leveraging data-driven insights; excellent written and verbal communication
- Strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset and a desire for creative problem solving, looking to make a big impact in a growing organization
- Strong SQL skills and excellent software engineering skills in Python
- Nice-to-haves:
- Experience with GCP (BigQuery, GCS, Dataproc, Notebooks), Airflow, and containerization (Docker)
- Experience building scalable data processing pipelines with big data tools such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, etc
What the job involves
- Our Long Term Impact (LTI) Science team drives development of world-class Machine Learning systems that estimate the long term impact of business decisions and customer actions
- As a senior ML Scientist, you'll be working to push the boundary of approaches to causal inference with rich, high-volume customer data, identifying drivers of business growth beyond A/B testing
- With engineering partners you'll implement these best-in-class approaches as scalable solutions to drive broad impact across marketing, operations, and storefront
- This role is an opportunity to lead how Wayfair approaches work at the intersection of data engineering and statistics
- Lead R&D effort to develop innovative causal inference approaches that will extend current capabilities and develop new ML products to provide insights on LTI
- Work highly cross-functionally with business leadership, stakeholders, and partner science and engineering teams to drive the integration of model outputs into company-wide business decision-making and existing production systems
- Developing robust solutions to infer or recover causal relationships from observational data, in a way that minimizes self-selection or third-variable problems
- Develop and own communication strategy for both technical and business stakeholders (including executive documentation and progress updates)
- Act as a subject matter expert and thought leader on causal inference techniques; research industry trends and best practices and bring them to life at Wayfair
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to develop your team as well to influence broader science organization
Our take
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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