Senior Data Scientist, Houzz

$140-165k

+ You could be eligible for an equity award

SQL
Python
Tableau
R
Hadoop
Hive
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

More information about location

Houzz

Online platform for home design

Open for applications

Houzz

Online platform for home design

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingInterior designSaaSCommunity

Open for applications

$140-165k

+ You could be eligible for an equity award

SQL
Python
Tableau
R
Hadoop
Hive
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingInterior designSaaSCommunity

Company mission

Houzz's mission is to deliver the best technology, user experience and products for home remodelling and design.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelors/Masters Degree with 4+ years of experience working within an analytical role in a high-growth tech company
  • Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries such as using aggregate functions and all types of joins using Hadoop, Hive and Presto. Strong programming skills in Python or R
  • Strong in problem-solving and analytical thinking to take an open business question from exploratory data analysis to actionable insights and guided execution recommendations
  • Proficiency in advanced experimental designing, testing, and analysis
  • Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • A passion for analytics and product development
  • Self-motivated, independent, and eager to learn
  • Ability to have fun!

Desirable

  • An advanced degree in a technical field such as Statistics, Operations Research, or Engineering
  • Experience with subscription based analytics, web/app user engagement, and funnel conversion
  • Ability to learn and act quickly, making decisions and drawing conclusions in the face of ambiguity
  • Experience with statistical modeling
  • Proficiency in using Tableau for visualization
  • Experience mentoring junior data scientists
  • Experience working with remote teams with a time zone difference

What the job involves

  • Houzz is looking for a world-class Sr. Data Scientist to join our Industry Solutions data science team
  • This team is focused on uncovering critical insights and delivering models to leverage those findings thus powering intelligent business decisions
  • Collaborate with leadership, product, data, and engineering teams to identify, define, and launch strategic and operational data science initiatives to improve growth performance
  • Define key metrics (KPIs) to guide business decision-making across various aspects of our site
  • Manage the key metrics of the business and product efficiently
  • Design product experiments, interpret results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions, and conduct root cause analysis
  • Own the end-to-end execution of projects by working with a broad cross-functional team
  • Work with data infrastructure/product engineering teams to define the data collection needs
  • Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions
  • Develop and maintain data products to serve real-time business insights or to be used in production environments
  • Critical projects will focus on data-driven insights to guide product development and business direction

Our take

Redecorating a house can be costly, time-consuming and needlessly confusing. Houzz’s online decorating platform solves this problem by connecting homeowners, design enthusiasts, and decorating professionals.

Houzz was first launched as a side project, but has since grown to become a community of millions. Its connectivity and practicality have allowed Houzz to scale at an impressive rate, with its progress being considerably accelerated by the boom in home renovations projects taken on during the pandemic.

The company's strong profile allowed Houzz to become a major player in the home improvement space, and it expressed hopes to go public. Macroeconomic conditions, however, have put these plans on hold, with the company instead having to lay-off a number of employees late in 2022. Despite this, the company appears hopeful it can retain its market leadership and return to planning its IPO when conditions have improved.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

59% female employees

-13% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jun 2017

$400m

LATE VC

Oct 2014

$165m

SERIES D

Total funding: $613.6m

Company benefits

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Commuter benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision and pet insurance
  • Maternity/paternity leave
  • Employee assistance program
  • 401k retirement savings plan
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Healthy at Houzz program

Company values

  • We're a family - We are team players, and collaborate to get things done. We are humble. We take care of each other and share our lives at work
  • We build the future - We are creative, innovative and fearless about trying new things. We embrace different ideas and are visionaries
  • We make things happen - We are a company of problem-solvers and self-starters. We move fast, remain flexible and get results

Company HQ

University South, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Previously worked at an investment firm.

Alon Cohen

(President)

9 years experience as Senior Director of Engineering at eBay. Previously an Engineering Manager for the Israeli Defense Forces.

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