Senior Data Scientist at Aspiration

Aspiration is in the business of fighting the climate crisis. We help people and businesses build sustainable impact into what they do every day by making it easy, automated, and powerful -- whether it is in the ways people spend and save their money or the ways businesses engage their customers and employees. Across our initiatives--from our debit and credit cards to our global scale reforestation and carbon credit projects--the estimated cumulative climate impact of the Aspiration community thus far is the equivalent of taking every car in the state of Wyoming off the road for a year. With more than 7 million members, over $550 million in funding to date, and a commitment to plant one billion trees by 2030, Aspiration is not only a certified B Corporation but has been named to the “Best for the World” list of the top five percent of highest scored certified B Corporations five times in a row.


Our Core Values are Aspiration’s guiding principles:

 

Action: We take initiative. We are doers, not bystanders.

Boldness: We don’t tinker, we transform.

Customer-Centered: Our customers are at the core of our business. Delivering for them is our North Star.

Diligence & Dedication: We do what we say we’re going to do, when we say we’re going to do it.

Entrepreneurial: Act like an entrepreneur not an employee, generate results for the company and customers everyday.

Aspiration is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help design and develop machine learning models to drive our business forward. This role will play a pivotal role in implementing machine learning models across our products as well as, running high business impacting analytics that will help us provide the best possible experience for our customers. 


What You'll Do

Lead the end-to-end process of conceptualizing, developing, deploying, and analyzing models. Work independently to design machine learning solutions that operate quickly and effectively at scale.
Dedicatedly perform explorations of data and algorithms to improve our models, explore new prediction algorithms, construct new features, and models, and research new technologies.
Own the data quality of your projects including training, test and experiment data.
Has a proven ability to learn quickly and works well both independently as well as in a team setting.
Creatively leverage new and existing data to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of our decision-making infrastructure.
Apply good software development practices and actively contribute to production code where practical.
Help build the next generation of data products at Aspiration.



What You'll Bring

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or a quantitative discipline.
Masters/PhD degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or a quantitative discipline preferred.
Demonstrable experience applying these methods to real world prediction problems (classification, regression, unsupervised learning, etc).
6+ years of experience in a Data Science role.
Fluent in a production-ready programming language such as Python. Ability to deploy and scale models into a production environment collaborating with engineers.
Fluent in common data science tools (e.g. scikit-learn, numpy, pandas) in Python and experience developing ensemble models (e.g. random forest, xgboost, catboost, ec).
Fluent in SQL, ability to efficiently query large dataset.
Experience with AWS data warehouses and services (e.g. EC2, S3, Sagemaker).
Communication skills and the ability to convey complex data visually, verbally, and in writing.
Experience with development tools and platforms such as Jupyter Notebook, PyCharm.
Experience with git commands and familiarity with Unix/Linux environments.
Prior experience in FinTech is a plus.



What You'll Get

Work for a mission-driven company to transform the lives of millions by building a better, values-oriented financial firm.
Opportunity to be part of and to contribute to ESG, as a steward of social and environmental change.
Participation opportunities in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion employee activities and events
Robust benefit offerings, including medical, dental, vision and 401k.
Parental Leave expansion (12 weeks of paid leave over the course of a year)
Pet Insurance and other voluntary benefit plan offerings
Unlimited vacation time and 80 hours of sick time annually
12 Paid Holidays
Work from home setup and equipment reimbursement
Semi - annual performance reviews
Employee Referral Bonus Program





Aspiration is proud to be an ESG company.  We are an equal opportunity workplace. Diversity at Aspiration is not just compliance-driven. Diversity is our compass to drive equitable practices; to celebrate individuality; and to foster the uniqueness within each of us that makes our products, services, and culture better than most. Yes, we are proud to be a DEI company and we encourage everyone, inside and outside of Aspiration, to show up as you are and as you want to be, every day.

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