Senior Data Scientist, Paperless Post
User Behavior
$140-160k
+ Equity component
Online events & invitations platform
Open for applications
Online events & invitations platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$140-160k
+ Equity component
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine invitations through design and technology to help people connect at life’s memorable moments.
Role
Who you are
- They have strong technical knowledge of ML and can autonomously build data solutions to answer complex business and product questions
- 6+ years experience in a data analytics and/or data science role
- Advanced knowledge of SQL and Python (R optional)
- Strong track record in analytics using statistics and machine learning
- Experience with reporting analytics and BI tools, preferably DBT, Looker, Hex
- Skilled at extracting insights and storytelling using impactful visualizations
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, autonomous, and highly organized
- Experience working with cloud data warehouses
- Familiarity with dimensional modeling database concepts, fact and dim tables
- Experience working with and cleaning unstructured data
- Ability to present complex information in an easy-to-understand and digestible manner
- Ability to work cross-functionally with team members who are highly technical as well as those with limited or no statistical training
- Comfort with the ambiguity that sometimes comes with a fast-paced start-up atmosphere
What the job involves
- The Senior Data Scientist at Paperless Post is focused on user behavior and machine learning (ML)
- They derive deep exploratory data analysis from product usage and our customer base
- As a Senior Data Scientist, they are responsible for gaining trust of senior stakeholders by distilling obscure, complicated questions into clear and accessible findings.This role reports to the Engineering Manager, Data
- Autonomously build machine learning models that describe and predict behavior of our users that guides the business to make more informed decisions
- Act as a strategic partner for functional teams, initiate and execute deep analyses to help prioritize opportunities and provide actionable recommendations that leverage our data tools Looker and Hex
- Develop a deep understanding of the KPIs that drive our business and identify ways of improving overall results across the company
- Design and build advanced data solutions to deliver superior business outcomes using research and performing quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Identify trends and opportunities to drive product growth
- Independently build trust with senior stakeholders to establish confidence in the outputs of key metrics from data science models
- Key contributor in ideation sessions to define quarterly data science tactics
- Participate actively in the Agile development cycle
- The Paperless Post data team plays a crucial role in our product’s success
- We get to dive into advanced data work—from marketing attribution models, growth analytics tactics, and product feature AB testing, to modern data engineering infrastructure and integrations—that solves complex business problems and increases the data functional capabilities of everyone throughout the company
- On the reporting side, we help ensure that all teams have the information they need to make sound business decisions
- Above all, we’re a team that is excited about what we do
Our take
Sending invitations to events can be tedious and time-consuming, and outsourcing design can be expensive too. Paperless Post solves this problem with its technology-led, design-first approach.
Paperless Post first launched in 2009, and since then it has become a clear market leader in a field cluttered with fairly simple design and printing tools. Part of its success stems from its early adoption of mobile phones as a platform - while initially optimized for desktop use the company worked hard to develop its platform for mobile users. This has allowed Paperless Post to consolidate its growth in spite of market changes over the years.
Paperless Post is well-positioned to see considerable growth. It will need to continue to develop its partnerships and technology in order to fend off new competitors, however. Its unique designs and partnerships with brands such as Caroline Herrera go some way to achieving this, and its understanding of communication trends: switching to text message notifications rather than email as younger people abandon email as a way to communicate - indicate that the company is still ahead of the curve.
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Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$10m
SERIES E
Apr 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.4m
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
James Hirschfeld
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014.
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