Senior Data Scientist, Justworks
Product Analytics
$167.5-184.3k
Business operations platform
Open for applications
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$167.5-184.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an experienced data scientist with a curious mindset and an eye for simplifying complex problems
- You’re practiced at framing data science problems and designing creative solutions that drive business impact, with hands-on experience in driving the growth and success of a company’s products through data-driven insights and strategies
- You’re excited to collaborate cross functionally and to communicate your findings to ensure your work drives business impact
- 7 years minimum of experience as a data scientist or analyst, with a track record of driving business impact through statistical analysis, experimentation, and predictive modeling
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate analyses into actionable strategies
- Track record of driving business impact through machine learning techniques
- Proficient in at least one statistical programming language (Python or R)
- Fluent in SQL
- Familiarity with a cloud-based data stack (e.g. Snowflake, dbt)
- Prior experience in a high-growth startup or a SaaS company is preferred
What the job involves
- Justworks is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Data & Analytics team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and marketers, to identify opportunities, develop experiments, and implement data-driven solutions that optimize key product metrics and drive user engagement, retention, and revenue growth
- Develop and lead end-to-end analytics projects, from defining metrics to analyzing data and delivering insights
- Conduct in-depth analyses to understand user behavior, identify growth opportunities, and evaluate the effectiveness of new product features
- Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and product health metrics, ensuring alignment with product and business goals
- Conduct A/B testing and experimentation to measure the impact of growth initiatives and identify optimization opportunities
- Build tools and frameworks to improve experimentation and measure incrementality of growth efforts
- Design and implement statistical models and machine learning algorithms to identify patterns, predict customer behavior, and unlock opportunities for growth across the customer lifecycle
- Partner closely with our Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to understand their goals and requirements
- Present and document key learnings and recommendations to teams in a manner that productively influences decisions
- Partner with the data engineering & analytics engineering teams to improve platform capabilities around data ingestion, data modeling, data quality, and insights generation
- Perform other related responsibilities as needed based on department and/or organizational needs
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company values
- Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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