Staff Data Scientist, Crunchbase
$190-210k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
More information about location
Database of innovative companies
Be an early applicant
Database of innovative companies
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-210k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give anyone the tools to find out about innovative companies, from startups to global brands, and the people behind them.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a creative innovator and an outstanding communicator with strong hands-on skills that love to mentor and work with a team
- They are not only curious about data and what it can teach us, but also care deeply about our users and how to drive an experience that helps them engage with and better utilize our data
- Excellent communication skills, capable of simplifying complex issues for effective collaboration
- Proven track record in dimensional data modeling, ETL pipeline development, and system architecture
- Proficiency in Python
- Familiarity with data warehousing technologies and cloud platforms
- Experience implementing NLP and ML algorithms in production environments
- Strong problem-solving skills and effective communication abilities
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to guide and mentor team members
- Proficient with Google Office Suite or related software
- Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred
- 6+ years of professional engineering experience working with technologies (Python, SQL, pandas, etc)
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
What the job involves
- The Crunchbase Signals Team thrives to provide users with insightful information throughout their experience on Crunchbase platform
- By combining Crunchbase, private and behavioral data with machine learning systems, we aim to understand the underlying data needs to best assist their day to day work, we then identify and highlight relevant insights and predictions, eventually build personalized experiences that are uniquely valuable to our users
- The team is composed of Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers and Data Engineers working together to deliver models and services into production
- We are hiring a hands-on Staff Data Scientist to help shape and build out the intelligence layer for Crunchbase signals products
- We are looking to go deeper on the data we have, generating and presenting insights and predictions that help our users better understand our data and offer observations and recommendations specifically tailored to their use-case
- Dimensional Data Modeling: Architect and design new dimensional data models aligning with business objectives, ensuring efficient data accessibility, and optimize schema designs for scalability, flexibility, and adherence to industry best practices
- ETL Pipeline Development and Maintenance: Build, monitor, and maintain analytics and production data ETL pipelines, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of data workflows
- Data-Driven Culture Empowerment: Provide the foundation for a data-driven culture by developing tools and processes for engineers and the Product team to easily query and analyze datasets
- Scale ML Algorithms: Enable data scientists to implement Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms at scale while designing fault-tolerant, highly available systems to support the deployment and execution of ML models
- Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design key component in our architecture and platform. Consider business requirements and tradeoffs and implement a variety of solutions to address our data needs of our data architecture, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Own key projects end-to-end and influence the mid and long term technical direction of our data platform
- Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, foster a culture of technical excellence, professional growth and continuous learning
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with other engineering teams, product and analytics engineers, data scientists, and other team members to integrate solutions into our datatech ecosystem. Communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and provide data engineering support
- Technology Evaluation and Adoption: Stay informed about emerging technologies and industry best practices. Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance our data capabilities
- Communication: Communicate complex technical concepts and findings to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Our take
Crunchbase is a platform that's designed for finding business information about public and private companies. This includes funding information, recent investments, leaders or founders, industry trends, and M&A news.
In addition to earning money via advertising, Crunchbase sells a range of products on a monthly basis, such as Crunchbase Pro and Crunchbase Enterprise, which allow users to run advanced searches of their database. Though it has competitors such as Owler, DealRoom and PitchBook, Crunchbase differentiates itself by covering a wider breadth of companies and having additional info on tech stacks and web traffic.
Crunchbase data is crowd-sourced, which means that people and companies enter data on themselves and others. This means that company info that is not widely available can be missed or added late, but despite these shortcomings, Crunchbase remains a premier spot for company information. Its 2022 round of funding is being used to grow its team as well as continue planned improvements, including the addition of enhanced machine learning-powered suggestions to the site.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2022
$50m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $106.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401k and roth plans
- 14 weeks fully-paid parental leave
- Free One Medical membership
- Mental health days to recharge
- No meeting day every Thursday
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous wellness reimbursement plan
- $1k allowance to build your home office
- Monthly internet stipend
- Monthly stipend for coffee or a quick bite with colleagues
- Annual carbon offset coverage
- Volunteering time off (VTO)
- $3k learning and development stipend ($1k eligible for student loan repayment)
- Matching charity contributions
Company values
- Take the Initiative - We have an entrepreneurial mindset and take the initiative to create value for our customers
- Be Open - We are generous and courageous when giving and receiving feedback. We are good listeners and embrace diversity of thought
- Develop Your Craft - We bring a spirit of curiosity to all that we do. We strive to improve by celebrating achievements and learning from mistakes
- Put Customers First - We prioritize understanding customer needs and exceeding their expectations in everything we do
- Do Good - We help each other. We are active participants of our community, inside and outside our office
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Leadership
Michael Arrington
(Founder)Studied at UCB and Stanford law before practicing at O'Melveny Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Founded Crunchbase in July 2007 before going on to found and lead TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. Most recently co-founded CrunchFund.
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