Research Data Scientist, Swayable
$125-165k
+ Equity
Consumer opinion testing
Be an early applicant
Consumer opinion testing
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$125-165k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate social and economic progress by making scientific insights instantly accessible to decision-makers.
Role
Who you are
- Fluency in the python data science stack
- Expertise in statistical, analytical, and data science methods
- Excellent communication and data visualization skills
- Ability to work independently, prioritizing multiple important tasks/deadlines
- A keen eye for the 20% of effort that delivers 80% of the results
- Being a flexible team player whose values align with ours
Desirable
- Experience writing and reviewing production-quality python code
- Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment
- Experience interacting with MongoDB databases
- Bachelors/Masters/PhD in data science, statistics, physics, mathematics, bioinformatics, computer science, or a related quantitative field
What the job involves
- This is a uniquely exciting opportunity to tackle critical unsolved problems in public opinion research and causal modeling.
- As a Research Data Scientist (reporting to the Director of Data Science), you’ll have the infrastructure and talent around you to turn results into new discoveries, prototypes and features that deliver insights to the world's most important organizations
- Conduct data science research to push our experimental methodologies to the bleeding edge of social science
- Develop robust tools to uncover insights in experimental data
- Prototype data science improvements to core platform features
- Communicate the results of data science investigations to both internal
Our take
Campaigning, whether for a brand, a charitable cause, or a political office, is getting harder by the year. Siloed demographics, patchy data, and bad market research means many messages aren’t getting through - something that Swayable is looking to change.
The company essentially runs randomized A/B testing on campaign videos to see which is the most persuasive for their clients. Swayable pulls demographic audiences from sites like Facebook, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and Fiverr, and returns analysed performance results to its customers within 12-24 hours.
This kind of rapid-turnaround market insight is crucial for organizatinos looking to fine-tune their messaging. It won the company itself good business, too - Swayable began with Y-Combinator, and has gone on to score a remarkable slate of clients including the Biden Harris campaign, Amazon, Airbnb, and Paramount.
Swayable’s express commitment to truth-telling and fighting misinformation is a smart play in today’s climate. With an impressive team of physicists and founders at the helm, Swayable is in a strong position to continue winning big business.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Feb 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.3m
Company benefits
- Commission structure
- Equity options
- Full healthcare coverage with no employee contribution required
- Generous PTO and parental leave
- 401K
- Opportunity to support some of the most important storytelling and social change campaigns in the world
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
James Slezak
(CEO & Co-Founder)Has founding experience with Win Back Respect, Purpose, Peers.org, and New Economy Lab. Along the way has also worked as a McKinsey project lead, and spent time in various director roles at The New York Times.
Valerie Coffman
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously an NIST physicist, before moving on to found Feastie, and then taking up a CTO/Chief Science Officer role at Xometry.
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