Senior Data Scientist Insights Udemy Business at Udemy

About UdemyUdemy is the world’s largest education platform with more than 30 million monthly visitors.  Through our Consumer and Enterprise businesses, Udemy creates new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy consumer marketplace offers thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages and provides the tools learners and instructors need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. For companies, Udemy Business (UB) offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content. Our enterprise platform is among the fastest growing SaaS businesses in the world.  UB has more than 10,000 customers and serves the majority of the Fortune 100.
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
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