Staff Data Scientist, Sprout Social
$167.6-276.5k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Equity
All-in-one social media management platform
Be an early applicant
All-in-one social media management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$167.6-276.5k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations of all sizes become better marketers and create the world’s most beloved brands.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for an experienced and passionate data scientist who has demonstrated thought leadership in developing Data Science solutions for go-to-market challenges
- If you excel at complex statistical modeling, strategic data storytelling, and mentoring teams while being motivated by solving critical business problems, we'd love to talk with you!
- 7+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics, including hands-on development of models that drive GTM decisions
- 7+ years of experience driving GTM decision-making through strong proficiency in SQL for querying, transforming, and analyzing large datasets, as well as conducting statistical data analysis in Python, including modeling and data visualization with BI tools like Tableau
- A track record of quantifiable business impact through data science solutions in areas such as revenue, finance, sales, or go-to-market functions, with proven storytelling ability to translate insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders and executives
Desirable
- Experience setting technical direction in ambiguous environments and defining processes that scale
- Deep expertise in cutting-edge statistical, and machine learning methods, with a focus on solving complex business-oriented problems such as customer lifetime value prediction, churn analysis, forecasting, and segmentation
- Strong background in model services, deployment technologies, and ML-Ops practices with ownership of production systems
- Advanced experience with cloud services and databases such as GCP, AWS, and Azure
- Track record of designing self-service analytics solutions that empower revenue, finance, sales, and GTM teams to access insights independently
- Experience communicating data science concepts to diverse audiences, from technical teams to executive leadership
What the job involves
- Sprout Social is looking for a Staff Data Scientist to join its Data Science and AI team
- Own end-to-end model development from data acquisition to deployment and monitoring, ensuring insights directly translate into business impact
- Lead cross-functional collaborations with executives, revenue, sales, and finance teams to solve high-ambiguity business challenges, align data science solutions with company-wide GTM objectives, and set standards for the company
- Shape the strategic direction of business analytics, predictive modeling efforts, and self-service insights through BI, ensuring all data products deliver measurable business impact
- Develop causal inference frameworks and advanced experimentation methodologies to evaluate business strategies and optimize decision-making
- Mentor junior data scientists and foster a culture of innovation and cross-team collaboration, encouraging adoption of cutting-edge data science methodologies
- Set the bar for data science technical standards within the organization by defining best practices, establishing quality frameworks, and creating scalable processes for consistent excellence
- Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
- Complete Sprout's New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members
- Learn about our team's data science and data analytics best practices
- Become familiar with our existing services, available data, and technical architecture
- Begin meeting with various departments and stakeholders to understand existing problem spaces and strategic needs
- Work with leadership to identify high-impact areas where you can drive technical excellence
- Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
- Lean an analytics initiative with cross-functional impact
- Begin mentoring team members and influencing technical direction
- Identify opportunities to raise the bar for DS standards at Sprout
- Continue learning about Sprout's products, customers, and business structure to suggest new strategic data projects that will impact growth
- Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
- Delivering high-value analytics assets that provide strategic insights to executive stakeholders
- Contributing to our longer-term roadmap of data and analytics at Sprout
- Defining best practices and guiding strategy for our GTM data science practice
- Establishing yourself as a thought leader within the organization for Data Science
- Building strong relationships with department leaders and executives
- Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Leading the development of sophisticated data science solutions that transform data into actionable insights driving measurable business impact
- Identifying and championing new opportunities for data science-backed capabilities
- Mentor junior team members while elevating the technical excellence of the entire team and establishing analytics best practices at Sprout
- Representing Sprout's data science expertise externally where appropriate
- Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet
Our take
Engagement tools for social media are proving increasingly vital with the rise of social commerce, and brands need to keep a careful eye on customer satisfaction and interaction if the company is to net a profit from this market. Sprout Social is a social media management platform for brands and agencies of all sizes, allowing users to post, manage engagement, and access analytics on a single hub.
With plenty of big-name customers, including Unicef, Chipotle, and Subaru, Sprout Social has developed a trusted and effective brand of its own. It dodged direct competition with social engagement platform Hootsuite by expressly prioritizing its customer service tools, where Sprout Social appears to be generally recognized as superior.
To double down on serving the social commerce market, and carve out a distinctive niche ahead of this eCommerce trend’s anticipated success, Sprout Social has integrated with platforms such as Shopify and Facebook Shops. It is also a member of the TikTok marketing partner program, and has continued to receive accolades for its software.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2018
$40.5m
SERIES D
Feb 2016
$42m
SERIES C
Total funding: $101.5m
Company benefits
- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
- Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
- Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
- Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Justyn Howard
(CEO)They were Senior Account Executive at New Horizons, and worked in Learn.com's Executive Account Sales department.
Aaron Rankin
(CTO)They have a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon and were an IT Architect at IBM. They were also a Software Engineer at Endeca, and they are currently an investor with Rankin Family Ventures.
Peter Soung
(Head of Growth)They studied Computer Science at Penn State before working at IBM as a Software Engineer. They also worked as a Sales Engineer at companies such as Endeca.
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