Senior Data Scientist, NoRedInk
Full Stack Machine Learning & Analytics
$170-200k
+ Equity
E-learning platform for 4-12 grade writing
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E-learning platform for 4-12 grade writing
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-200k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
NoRedInk's mission is to build stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years experience in a data science or analytics role
- Degree or equivalent experience in statistics, analytics, mathematics, computer science, or a related quantitative field
- Experience leveraging LLMs to both improve the software development process and deliver features in production
- Experience building and training predictive models using leading machine learning frameworks
- A strong focus on end-to-end delivery, leveraging full-stack capabilities including data engineering and ETL tooling, model deployment, MLOps, observability, etc
- Proficient with the use of BI and data analysis tools, data warehousing, data visualization, data architecture, data-driven storytelling and other higher level data concepts
- Strong collaboration, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to move fluently between metrics and business outcomes, reinforcing and ultimately championing those connections for others
- Fluency with SQL and Python
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management tools
- An interest in and an awareness of data privacy and compliance considerations
- Open to working with a team spanning US-Pacific to US-East time
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Full Stack Data Scientist to work with a team of data professionals in solving customer, product, and business problems through data science and advanced analytics, large language models and other machine learning models, as well as data architecture and infrastructure improvements
- Drive objectives in collaboration with members of the data team and colleagues across the company
- Partner across Product and Engineering to advance our data science and AI/ML capabilities; leverage LLMs and Generative AI to enhance product features and business operations; assist teams with model selection, implementation, and optimization
- Utilize strong project management skills for efficient and effective delivery of data-related projects for cross-functional stakeholders, owning the end-to-end lifecycle of ML models
- Effectively leverage our data warehouse and tools like Snowflake, Sigma, Mixpanel, and Google Analytics
- Conduct rigorous testing and analysis to validate model performance, monitor model drift and performance in production, and implement retraining strategies as appropriate
- Contribute to data team efforts aiming to develop actionable business intelligence
- Advise product and engineering leadership, continually improving the product and the organization as a whole while simultaneously learning and growing as an individual contributor
- Mentor team members and contribute to the team’s technical roadmap
Our take
Edtech company NoRedInk is on a mission to help students in grades 4-12 become better writers. The foundational issue the company addresses is that graded papers don’t offer meaningful feedback on how students can improve the quality of their writing and the basic problem they face is how to quantify and teach according to these unwritten rules.
The solution they’ve come up with is a platform that provides targeted, adaptive practice exercises built around engaging content that yields actionable data for educators to monitor a student’s progress. It might seem that this puts them in competition with the AI-based correction app Unicorn Grammarly, but this would be missing the point. The idea is to provide an interactive learning and teaching resource, not simply correct mistakes once made.
It’s won the platform impressive funding in recent years, boosted no doubt by surging VC interest in the edtech sector that’s seen investment in it rise to over $16B globally. With half of US school districts already using the platform, NoRedInk looks set to establish a leading position going forwards.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Feb 2015
$6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $58m
Company benefits
- Equity package in a high-growth, well-funded startup with massive traction
- A remote-first culture that allows for flexible hours (We were big on remote before COVID!)
- A relaxed and flexible PTO policy and paid parental leave
- LinkedIn Learning subscription with unlimited access to thousands of expert-led online courses
- Team retreats and events to connect with fun, talented coworkers
- Consistent modeling of our company’s core values
- The ability to help millions of students and teachers and address a critical societal need
- Excellent health, vision, and dental benefits (U.S. Only)
- 401(k) (U.S. Only)
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jeff Scheur
(CEO)He spent 8 years as a high school English teacher before founding NoRedInk.
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