Staff Data Scientist at The Mom Project

Why you? 
You are someone who brings your life experience to create products that truly make a difference in the lives of working parents. You use data to inform roadmaps, but you also know when you have enough information for action. You love the challenge of prioritizing user needs amongst multiple business objectives. You enjoy growing from diverse perspectives and coworkers while collaborating with others in a cross-functional team, and across departments.
You are looking for something more from your job. Maybe a bigger problem to solve with both immediate and long term impact, or perhaps you just need a mission you can believe in every day. You are scrappy and collaborative while looking to join an inclusive and supportive culture with a bias for action. You dig a balanced startup life and can wrestle challenges with grace. You love big, interesting problems and bringing solutions to the masses while making sure it feels personal, authentic, and connected. If this sounds like you, we'd like to talk.
Why us? 
The Mom Project is a pioneering, remote-first venture-backed startup with roots in Chicago & Cincinnati. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world and are lucky to be surrounded by an incredible team of advisors, including Serena Williams.
The Mom Project is a platform and community leading a cultural movement that matches companies with diverse talent. To date, our platform has unlocked over $200M in earning potential by connecting our 500,000+ moms and mom-supporters with opportunities at world class brands like Apple, Accenture, Etsy and Nike… and we are just getting started!
Our team is growing as we push to rewrite the narrative for working women at every stage of life. We believe women should be able to choose both a successful family life AND career aspirations without sacrificing one over the other. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us and our mission forward every day. We strive towards inclusion and that means everyone is comfortable bringing their authentic and best self to work every day.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Staff Data Scientist to join our team of 3! The data science team was fully established earlier in summer 2021 so we are still doing a lot of foundational work. Currently, our two main projects are matching job seekers with jobs and predicting if a job applicant will be interviewed. We’re looking for our newest team member to establish our initial Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, starting with the use case of extracting information from job descriptions. We’re looking for someone who will start simple and then build up to more complex models.
Our data science team is full-stack, meaning we own the DS process end-to-end from training models to API deployment. We code in Python, and we use technologies like Docker, Redshift and PyTorch. We work in two-week sprints with daily scrums, bi-weekly planning, demos, and retros.
What you’ll do: 
Own data science projects from conception to production
Work with product managers and engineers to scope out requirements for a project
Contribute to team’s knowledge and help us come up with the best processes for our team
Mentor other data scientists
Advocate for best data practices including thinking about what data we should be collecting
Develop tools to monitor our models and ensure their performance doesn’t degrade
Work with director to guide decisions about the infrastructure our team should use
Collaborate with the director to find other opportunities for DS projects
Evangelize data science throughout the company
Recruit additional data scientists to our team

About you:
You have been the technical leader of a data science team before
You can quickly pick up new techniques in supervised and unsupervised learning
You apply industry best practices for data science projects
You have experience writing production Python code that follows best software engineering practices including writing unit tests and Dockerizing projects
You’re excited about joining a relatively new team and helping us develop best team practices
You like working in a startup environment; part of your job will include helping to set up the infrastructure needed for data science
You like working collaboratively with other folks including data scientists, engineers, and product managers
You like sharing knowledge via mentoring, code reviews, and other avenues
You care about ensuring that the algorithms you build are not biased against specific groups of people
You enjoy working with a team of goofy people who do things like name all of their projects after candy
[Optional] you ideally have experience with NLP models or other deep learning methods

Why you’ll love working for TMP:
Compensation & Benefits:
Base Compensation
Full medical, dental, vision 
Short and Long Term Disability
Generous Paid Parental Leave 
Family planning benefits through Progyny
Generous PTO 
401K match

Let me see those Perks, Perks, Perks!
An incredible remote team that will support and champion your work
Health and Wellness stipend
Learning and Development stipend 
Work From Home Stipend


PAY RANGE
We have different pay bands for different geographies in the US:
CHI/AUSTIN/ATL/PORT: $190,000 - $210,000
SEA/BOS/LA/DC: $210,000 - $230,000
SF/NY: $220,000 - $240,000
We're just getting started. Join us in building the future of work.