Senior Data Scientist at Crunchbase

About Crunchbase
Crunchbase helps over 70 million people around the world connect with the companies and people that matter. We are democratizing access to opportunities so that entrepreneurs, investors, job seekers, salespeople, and others can accelerate innovation for a better future. We are proud to build products that are shaping how companies and people connect, using our intelligence and data to help them communicate in a more meaningful way with one another.

We are committed to a positive, diverse, and inclusive culture by hiring for potential, focused on the inclusion of people who have different ways of thinking, different viewpoints, different backgrounds, and different skill sets. We value a transparent and open culture that positively impacts our teams and our products.

Crunchbase has a remote-first approach, and is open to hiring in these locations: 
Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, Raleigh, San Francisco, and Seattle

Engineering at Crunchbase
The Crunchbase engineering team is a dynamic, fast-paced team that is dedicated to quickly delivering features, evaluating their performance, and iterating towards the product vision shared by the company.

We are organized in vertical teams that include cross-functional engineers as well as functional guilds aimed at working tightly with the product team to deliver high standards code while iterating quickly on features. 

We value open and honest communication and strive to build an environment where opinions and views can be shared and considered in an effort to reach the best decision.

Personalization Team at Crunchbase
The Crunchbase personalization team thrives to provide users personalized relevant information throughout their experience on Crunchbase platform. By combining Crunchbase, private and behavioral data with machine learning systems, we learn to understand our users’ journey, identify and highlight relevant insights and build personalized experiences that are unique to our users.

The team is composed of Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Platform Engineers and Frontend engineers working together to deliver models and services into production.
We are hiring a hands-on Senior Data Scientist to help build the next level of Crunchbase personalized experience. 

We are looking to go deeper on the data we have, generating and presenting insights that help our users better understand our data and offer observations and recommendations specifically tailored to their use-case. The ideal candidate is passionate about not only data and what it can teach us, but also about our users and how to drive an experience that helps them engage with and better use our data. 


What You'll Do:

Help drive the Crunchbase personalization engine and turn our business vision into features
Collaborate with the product team and other partners to help improve our personalized user experience
Work on all aspects of the feature delivery cycle, from conceptualizing and collecting requirements to modeling and productionalizing your code all the way to deployment.
Set up evaluation processes and methodologies with partners to guide experiments
Conduct research to implement prescriptive and predictive models at a production level of quality according to our business needs, data patterns, and performance requirements
Work side by side with machine learning engineers and data engineers to come up with plans to put the models/algorithms into production
Develop statistical and machine learning models to better understand users and their journey in general
Contribute to defining and enhancing our machine learning platform capabilities from the ground up
Help establish processes and standard methodologies to help grow our data science guild




What We're Looking For:

Strong statistics and machine learning background
4+ years of proven experience as a Data Scientist
You are an excellent communicator and able to explain sophisticated issues to colleagues in simple terms
You like to understand the product and deliver meaningful features that drive the business forward
You enjoy owning and pursuing a challenging research agenda and carrying out long-running projects autonomously with the team
You are familiar with an array of analytics and big data tools (e.g SQL, etc)
You have hands-on experience on shipping machine learning-based projects in production and delivering significant impact to customers
You are a big believer in the Build-Measure-Learn methodology
Experience with personalization and recommendation systems is a plus
Industry experience with NLP is a plus



What Crunchbase offers:

Competitive salary and equity
Remote first policy
Generous Reimbursement policy for learning and development activities
Monthly fitness / mental health reimbursement
10 weeks of fully-paid time off for new parents
Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
Volunteering Paid Time Off
Incredible medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their families
Free One Medical Group membership for employees and their families
401(k) and Roth plans, and free annual financial adviser check-in
Monthly internet stipend
Work from home allowance to purchase furniture for your work from home space
Annual carbon offset 
Matching charity contributions for our Townhall awards
A team of creative, transparent entrepreneurs driven to accomplish our mission



At Crunchbase, we value team members who are passionate and enthusiastic about what we're building here. We believe there is no "perfect" candidate, and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren’t met. If you're passionate about Crunchbase and looking to learn and grow, then we look forward to reviewing your application!



Crunchbase does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status. Every day our team is honored to work with entrepreneurs and innovators from every corner of the globe, and we aim to build a team that reflects the diversity of our customers. Each individual at Crunchbase brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides a better service to its customers, and helps us all grow and learn as individuals. 

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