Data Scientist at Arkestro

Who We Are

Arkestro is the leading Predictive Procurement Orchestration platform. Built to amplify the impact of procurement’s influence, Arkestro helps enterprises deliver a 2-5x lift on cost savings attributed to everyday purchasing and sourcing cycles. Top enterprises leverage Arkestro’s behavioral science, game theory and machine learning to predict and win faster value across every category of addressable spend.

Arkestro is scaling the first ever predictive procurement automation software. Typical enterprise procurement has many disparate data sources that are often underutilized to make smarter and more efficient purchases. Via a blend of predictive AI models and user-centric design, Arkestro is re-imagining enterprise procurement teams as a powerful lever to digitize and improve global supply chains. We’re looking for a passionate Technical Business Analyst to join our Product Team to help us achieve our vision of procurement that changes the world of business operations in positive and meaningful ways. Arkestro is at an exciting stage of growth, and this role will help build out the Data Team. The right candidate will have the opportunity to work with innovative customers and fantastic internal engineering and customer success teams to transform enterprise procurement. Given the early stage of Arkestro, this role has the ability to grow into several different areas of Data Team responsibility whether it is more technical or more customer-facing.


Tools and Technologies We Use

Data science and visualization: Dataiku, Verb, Python, SQL, Excel
Project management and collaboration: Asana, Miro, Pivotal Tracker, Slack
Workflow and Analytics: Intercom, Amplitude, Fullstory, Segment



An Ideal Candidate Has

Excellent communications skills, the ability to learn on the fly, and a desire for ownership
Advanced degree in CS, Math, Economics, Physics, Engineering, etc.
5+ years of experience translating real world data into clearly actionable insights
3+ years of experience building, deploying, and maintaining ML models
3+ years of experience with Python
Bonus: Experience with a data science studio tool (Dataiku, Databricks, Alteryx, etc.)



Day to Day Responsibilities

Ingest, transform, and explore customer data for use in visualizations and models
Automate model training, testing and deployment to API server (Dataiku)
Work closely with engineering to fit model to Arkestro web application requirements
Project manage data model lifecycle and performance with key stakeholders



Benefits

 •  Competitive salary and startup equity

 •  We are a remote-first team, but we like to get together for team building, design sprints, and customer visits   


 •  We also have offices located in both Atlanta and San Francisco


 •  We are highly supportive of flexible work hours


 •  Unlimited PTO


 •  Generous 401k matching and healthcare, dental, and vision plans


 •  Every employee is given an annual budget of $1,000 for annual learning and development (i.e. books,

	 conferences, courses)

 •  Full-time employees are also given an initial $1,000 budget for home office supplies



Disclaimer

Please note this job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Arkestro reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice. Arkestro is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.