Data Scientist, Houzz

• Bachelors/Masters Degree with 2+ years of experience working within an analytical role in a high-growth tech company
• Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries such as using aggregate functions and all types of joins using Hadoop, Hive and Presto. Strong programming skills in Python or R
• Strong in problem-solving and analytical thinking to take an open business question from exploratory data analysis to actionable insights and guided execution recommendations
• Proficiency in advanced experimental designing, testing, and analysis
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• A passion for analytics and product development
• Self-motivated, independent, and eager to learn

Desirable

• Houzz is looking for a world-class Data Scientist to join our Pro Data Science team. This team is focused on uncovering critical insights and delivering models to leverage those findings thus powering intelligent business decisions. As a Data Scientist here at Houzz you are on the front line of uncovering insights to directly impact product roadmap and revenue
• Critical projects will focus on data-driven insights to guide product development and business direction
• Collaborate with leadership, product, data, and engineering teams to identify, define, and launch strategic and operational data science initiatives to influence product roadmap, set strategic directions and drive user engagement
• Define and manage the key metrics of the business and product efficiently
• Design product experiments, interpret results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions, and conduct root cause analysis
• Own the end-to-end execution of projects by working with a broad cross-functional team
• Work with data infrastructure/product engineering teams to define the data collection needs
• Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions
• Develop and maintain data products to serve real-time business insights or to be used in production environments