Senior Data Scientist, Handshake
Handshake AI
$180-225k
5 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Open for applications
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$180-225k
5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in data science, analytics, or a related quantitative field
- 4-year degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills for product / technical teams and executive audiences
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python / R
- Experience building dashboards to actually drive decision-making
- Familiarity with BI tools such as Looker and Hex
What the job involves
- In your role as Data Scientist you will build dashboards and data pipelines to deepen our understanding of the fast growing Handshake AI business
- You will deliver actionable insights and analyses that will guide the product strategy and operational next steps
- You will be a thought partner for how to design our systems to cleanly track data
- You will join a small team that will support all areas of the Handshake AI business, including Growth, Delivery Operations, Training, Churn/Retention, and more
- Define and track critical business and product metrics with product and engineering leaders
- Lead analytics workstreams to uncover trends and drive product and design innovation
- Collaborate strategically with product and engineering to ensure new systems and flows are designed in a way to capture data cleanly and effectively
- Quickly and efficiently build dashboards and reporting systems that meetings can be actually run out of to inform data-driven decision-making
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand analytical needs and translate them into clean, reusable data assets
- Note: This role is focused on data analytics and business strategy and is explicitly not about machine learning model development or causal inference
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 12 million active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- 💰Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
- 🍼16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents
- 💝Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support
- 💻Handshake offers $500/£360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home
- 📚Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
- 🏦401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year
- 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 8 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Summer and Winter #ShakeBreak, two one-week periods of Collective Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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