Senior Data Scientist
Employer Provided Salary:$120K-$140K
SkySync is a dynamic, fast-paced, venture-backed software innovator based in the Ann Arbor tech cluster, with remote Syncopaths in all US time zones. Our quirky and unique workforce excels at managing our customer’s content migration, synchronization, and orchestration challenges like no other in our space. We are poised for rapid growth and need a Data Scientist to contribute to building and developing our understanding of the data we encounter. We are looking for someone from the southeastern Michigan area and preference will be given to candidates within this geographic location.
You’ll be doing a lot of this:
Understanding the decision-making process, workflows, and business and information needs of business unit heads and service manager/owners
Translating business needs into analytics/reporting requirements to support executive decisions and workflows with required information
Proactively mining data warehouses to identify trends and patterns and generates insights for business units and senior leadership
Performing large-scale experimentation to identify hidden relationships between variables in large datasets
Researching and implementing cutting-edge techniques and tools in machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence to make data analysis more efficient
Determining requirements that will be used to train and evolve deep learning models and algorithms
Visualizing information and develops engaging reports on the results of data analysis using data visualization tools
Advising product teams on new products, features or updates through data-based recommendations
Developing frameworks and processes to analyze unstructured information collected through social media platforms i.e., wikis, blogs, instant messaging, etc. and traditional sources such as e-mail and SharePoint
Supporting user experience specialists and information architects to enhance information visualization through development of dashboards and user interfaces
Distributing best practices to analytics and product teams and provides consultations for their data-based experimentations
Other duties as assigned
So you should have this:
Up-to-date knowledge of machine learning and data analytics tools and techniques
Strong knowledge in predictive modeling methodology
Experience at leveraging both structured and unstructured data sources
Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision
Experience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems
Experience conducting statistical analysis with advanced statistical software, scripting languages, and packages
Experience with big data analysis tools and techniques
Experience building and deploying predictive models, web scraping, and scalable data pipelines
Master’s degree or PhD in computer science, statistics, economics or related fields
Ability to think critically while solving problems in a rapidly changing product

This position is a great fit for you if you like keeping up with the cutting edge of data science and helping build a position from the ground up. Knowing how to engage with new challenges daily and handle competing priorities is a must.
This position is not a great fit for you if you like established processes for every situation or a static set of duties and responsibilities.
Qualities Needed for Success
Excellent listening, writing, and professional communication skills are a must. You should be able to demonstrate proficiency in most of the duties and responsibilities listed above. In our fast-paced world, a great attitude combined with enthusiasm is key to individual success along with embodying our entrepreneurial spirit.
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