Data Scientist, Block

• 3+ years of product-focused data science experience or equivalent
• Fluency in SQL
• Experience performing data analysis and machine learning using Python or R
• Experience using statistics to inform decision making
• Ability to understand complex business and data systems; versatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job

Desirable

• Data Scientists on the Orders Analytics team are embedded within product teams and leverage engineering, analytics, statistics, and machine learning to empower data-driven decision making in product development
• Data Scientists support Square’s mission of economic empowerment, by using data to build understanding and empathy with our customers, enabling us to build a remarkable product experience
• Partner with the product stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and answer the most important questions where analytics will have a material impact and produce actionable insights
• Develop tools & resources to empower data access and self-service so your expertise can be leveraged where it is most impactful
• Apply a diverse set of tactics such as statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning; discerning where simple analytics solutions (e.g. a quick visualization) are preferable to complex solutions (e.g. machine learning)
• Communicate analysis and decisions to high-level stakeholders in verbal, visual, and written media
• Contribute to the data strategy of the platform and influence stakeholders to make well-informed architecture and design decisions that affect data at Square