Senior Data Scientist, Axios
$165-180k
News media company
Job no longer available
News media company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$165-180k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit, and a passion for Axios’ mission and have the following skills:
- Highly collaborative and comfortable working on a remote 1st distributed team
- Self-motivated with high attention to detail, ability to think critically and problem-solve
- Ability to learn new technologies and experience delivering on a wide range of data science projects
- Highly analytical with solid experience in analysis, math, and statistics
- Proven experience as a data scientist
- Experience applying appropriate analytical methods and experimental design (training models, feature development, regression testing)
- Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation and semantic extraction
- Experience leveraging LLM and generative AI technologies
- Excellent programming skills in Python/SQL
- Comfortable with Jupyter Notebooks, and experience with machine learning frameworks (like PyTorch, Tensorflow), Python libraries (like scikit-learn, HuggingFace) and GPU-accelerated computing
- Ability to write robust and testable code
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable
- Experience working in and around AWS data services
- Experience working with cross-functional data teams and with Data Engineers, Analysis, and Product Managers
- Experience working in Media
- Familiarity with MLOps
What the job involves
- This Senior Data Scientist will be key in providing deeper insights, enabling data-informed decision-making, and building data-powered products by leveraging machine learning and AI
- In this role, you will work within a cross-functional team to drive forward data initiatives across mission-critical Axios products
- As a Senior Data Scientist you will make an impact on Axios through the following responsibilities:
- Working closely with Product Managers to develop machine learning and AI-powered data products
- Develop, deploy, monitor, validate, and govern models used in production applications
- Apply natural language processing techniques to a wide range of business problems
- Identify opportunities to implement new techniques and technologies
- Extending Python libraries used for advanced analytics and machine learning
- Remaining up to date on the new and state-of-the-art applications of machine learning
Our take
Axios is a digital news site covering business, tech, politics, and media trends, with a focus on smart and efficient coverage. Much like rival comparable sites The Economist and Politico, it’s also diversified its media to include podcasts, newsletters, and a mobile app. Whilst it remains a major national and international news outlet, it’s also pursuing a new avenue to help shore up its position: local news.
Local news outlets have been in sharp decline over recent years: it’s too costly, with too little revenue. Axios’ plan is to opt instead for local newsletters. They’re highly advertiser-friendly, and the model itself is exceptionally scalable. So Axios may succeed where traditional efforts by other outlets like The Huffington Post (and countless local outfits) have failed.
Axios was previously held up as an exception to the mergers and acquisitions that other news outlets were enduring to weather the decline of print media. However, in order to fund the expansion into local news, Axios has been acquired by the global conglomerate (and previous investor in the company) Cox Enterprises. This is good news - Cox Enterprises owns and protects local newspapers in Ohio, and looks set to be a hands-off and values-aligned new Axios owner. In 2025, it was announced that OpenAI would be funding Axios's expansion into new US territories, suggesting even more growth on the horizon.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Jim VandeHei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, they then went on to found Politico and serve a decade as its CEO.
Mike Allen
(Co-Founder & Executive Editor)Spent nearly a decade as Politico's Chief White House correspondent before co-founding Axios in 2016.
Roy Schwartz
(Co-Founder & President)CEO of Axios HQ. Spent time as a partner at The Gallup Organization, then as VP and ultimately CRO of Politico.
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