Associate Data Scientist Sustainability at Indigo

About Indigo

Indigo Ag is a mission-driven company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. We innovate across a breadth of technology and science disciplines to help enhance agriculture's long-term sustainability and profitability and mitigate the climate crisis. We seek to positively impact the world through the digital and biological solutions we bring to the market, creating a more resilient earth, healthier economies, and thriving communities. Our people build partnerships, explore the science, and engineer the technology to help grow the future of sustainable agriculture. The only way to achieve it is through a unique combination of expertise – from Fortune 500 to academia, soil science and agriculture, to tech start-ups.

The sustainability data science team is a multidisciplinary team that harnesses data science, statistics, and technology to build a data-driven, scientifically-rigorous sustainability program. Our activities span several aspects including: 

1. operational tasks to conservatively quantify Carbon sequestration approaches, rates, and efficacy 
2. partner with our science team on more R&D activities to design, analyze, and derive actionable insights from the frontiers of sustainability and carbon sequestration field experiments and sensor technologies 
3. strategic decision support with forecasting and scenario planning 
4. partner with the product team on tools, processes, and data products to enhance the grower’s Carbon program experience

About the role:
We are looking for an associate data scientist to tell the story of our data, derive insights, and drive decisions. Partnering with the product team, marketing, engineers, and others—all of whom are hungry for insights—and with the support of other data scientists and business intelligence analysts, you will work to understand data, develop hypotheses, answer questions, extract and interpret insights, and make recommendations.

The data will span transactional data, web analytics, as well as a rich set of open and proprietary agronomic and demographic datasets. As such, analyses may span questions around growth, engagement, and agronomics insights at a variety of spatial scales. 

The primary focus of this role is analysis (as opposed to reporting which is primarily handled by the business intelligence team): descriptive insights, session analysis, driver analysis, path analysis, churn analysis etc. as well as some predictive modeling (regression, classification, cluster analysis etc). You will be part of the sustainability data science team and have plenty of mentorship, support, and domain expertise to lean on, and a chance to develop skills and grow.


Competencies:

Strong sense of quality and attention to detail
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Curious and proactive. Bias for action.
Willing to interface with many areas of organization to understand our data, share insights, and have impact
Strong data manipulation and munging skills
Strong data visualization (matplotlib, ggplot, seaborn etc) and story-telling skills 



Qualifications:

Masters Degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related required
Comfortable writing SQL
Comfortable writing Python and/or R
Experience with version control software such as github
Experience working in an agile environment



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