Senior Data Scientist Insights Udemy Business at Udemy

About the Role
In the Data organization at Udemy, we’re passionate about transforming the future of education using data! We’re looking for fun, collaborative, self-motivated data scientists with an insatiable sense of curiosity and a knack for asking the right questions. The ideal candidate is an analytically creative thinker who is unafraid of ambiguity, has a track record of tackling difficult technical challenges, and has a pragmatic and relentless focus on driving meaningful business impact. We believe in building diverse teams, collaborative teams in which each person brings unique skills, knowledge, and experience to the table. If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, then read on!
At Udemy, data scientists generally belong to one of three career tracks:
Insights: Focused on analytics, data visualization, A/B testing, and stakeholder partnership.
Inference: Focused on causal or statistical inference for interpretation of data.
Algorithms: Focused on machine learning and building production data products.
Specifically, Udemy Business is a SaaS offering that provides employees of companies with access to a specially curated collection of business-relevant and technical courses delivered through the Udemy platform. In this role, you will collaborate with product managers, marketers, designers, and engineers to guide product decision-making through a combination of metrics and reporting, data analysis, data visualization, and experimentation design. You will serve as a subject matter expert, especially while working with other data scientists and act as a data evangelist to create a data-driven culture across the company. Success in this role requires a combination of business intuition, practical data analysis experience, experimentation acumen, and strong communication and collaboration skills.
Relevant questions
What are the right metrics for measuring the employee learning experience for Udemy’s enterprise product?
What dashboards and tools can Udemy build to provide actionable insights for enterprise clients?
How should we measure the impact of new feature launches for the enterprise product?
How can the Udemy Business product drive outcomes for business clients?
Responsibilities
Influence prioritization and key business decisions through data-driven insights
Serve as a subject matter expert and help drive the data science roadmap in your business or product domain
Define metrics and build operational dashboards to track business and product health
Design and analyze randomized controlled experiments
Develop robust data pipelines and continuously improve the quality and accessibility of data
Build Udemy’s technical brand through talks, blog posts, and publications
Provide mentorship for junior team members
Take responsibility for leading major team initiatives
Qualifications
7+ years of relevant hands-on experience in product or business analytics roles
Demonstrated track record leading major team projects in prior roles
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong business intuition and judgment
Exceptional data storytelling and data visualization ability
Broad knowledge of applied statistics and experimental design
Expert SQL ability and proficiency with 1+ programming languages (e.g., R or Python)
Experience building automated big data pipelines using tools like Spark, Airflow, and dbt.
Ability and willingness to work autonomously, relentlessly prioritize, and collaborate with team members across time zones
Locations
Boston, MA (preferred)
Remote (East Coast), US
Dublin, Ireland
We understand that not everyone will match the above qualifications 100%. If your background isn’t perfectly aligned but you feel you would be a great addition to the team, we’d love to hear from you.
About Udemy 
At Udemy, we’re all about improving lives through the power of learning. We are a leading global learning company and one of the world’s largest education platforms with more than 54 million learners. Our goal is to provide flexible, effective skill development to empower organizations and individuals. Talented people are everywhere, but opportunities can be hard to come by. That’s why we’re focused on revolutionizing learning, using our skills and expertise to help others develop theirs and reach their full potential. Individually, we bring our unique perspective to reimagine the way we share knowledge. Together, we can improve lives by empowering our learners, our instructors, and businesses around the world.
We are proud to be recognized for our world-class employee experience. Learn more about our Great Place to Work certification here and find out what it's like to work at Udemy on our blog.
Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in the US, Turkey, Ireland, Australia, India, and Brazil. Learn more on our company page.
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At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Udemy Benefits:
Eligibility: Regular, full-time employees are eligible for Udemy’s benefit programs.
Health Plans: Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% coverage for employee-only).
HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans available; generous HSA employer contributions for those enrolled in the HDHP medical plan.
Life/Disability: Employer-paid life insurance (supplemental available), in addition to short-term and long-term disability.
Retirement: Access to 401(k) with annual employer contribution.
Wellbeing: Corporate memberships for meditation and mindfulness, therapy and coaching, financial planning, primary care, tele-health, health advocacy, parent/newborn support, and employee discounts.
Education: Free access to the entire course library on the Udemy and Udemy for Business platforms; annual stipend for external learning beginning at six months of employment.
Charitable Matching Program: Employer match of monetary contributions to eligible nonprofits and charities that carry a 501(c)(3) tax status.
Vacation: 15 days per year of Paid Time Off for hourly; flexible Discretionary Time Off for salaried.
Parental Leave: 8 weeks of leave at 100% pay for parents who take time off from work following the date of birth, adoption, or foster placement beginning at six months of employment; this amount is in addition to pregnancy-disability benefits at 100% pay, if applicable.
Holidays: 11 paid holidays throughout the year
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