Staff Data Scientist, Gtm

**Description**

Sprout Social is looking for a Staff Data Scientist, GTM to join its Data Science and AI team.

**Why join Sprout's Data Science and AI team?**

**What you'll do**
- Lead the end-to-end development of statistical models and data analysis, managing projects from concept to delivery.
- Work closely with various go-to-market teams to solve complex business challenges, driving revenue growth for the company.
- Present data findings to executives in a clear and actionable manner
- Empower team growth by upholding our standards and fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration

**What you'll bring**

We're looking for an experienced and passionate data scientist who is eager to collaborate with sales, marketing, revenue, and other departments and provide data-driven solutions to business leaders. If you excel at statistical modeling and data driven storytelling, all while being motivated by solving critical business problems, we'd love to talk with you

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

- 7+ years of experience as a data scientist working with non-technical stakeholders
- 5+ years of experience leveraging Python for model development and experience with several ML frameworks such as, scikitlearn, pandas, numpy, etc..
- Broad and deep expertise in statistical, ML and AI methods, with a focus on solving business-oriented problems such as customer lifetime value prediction, churn analysis, and segmentation

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

- Comfortable leading projects in an ambiguous environment and defining processes
- Experience with model services, deployment technologies, and ML-Ops practices
- Familiar with cloud services and databases such as GCP, AWS, and Azure

**How you'll grow**

Within 1 month, you'll plant your roots, including:

- Complete Sprout's New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
- Learn about our team's data science and data analytics best practices.
- Become familiar with our existing services and available data.
- Begin meeting with various departments and stakeholders to understand existing problem spaces and needs.

Within 3 months, you'll start hitting your stride by:

- Work with your manager to define the first project you'll work on and start the data analysis process
- Improve current models and develop new statistical models from scratch
- Continue learning about Sprout's products, customers, and business structure to suggest new data projects that will impact growth

Within 6 months, you'll be making a clear impact through:

- Present your data analysis findings to stakeholders
- Contribute to our longer-term roadmap of data projects and ML models
- Define best practices and guide strategy for our internal data science practice

Within 12 months, you'll make this role your own by:

- Continuing to develop new statistical models based on business priorities
- Identify new opportunities for data science-backed capabilities
- Continue to build relationships with department leaders and executives
- Identify opportunities to create a multiplier effect through your work, making the entire team more productive and generating higher quality AI products
- Expand your skills by learning from other data analysts and data scientists at Sprout.
- Surprise us Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven't even considered yet.

Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager

**Our Benefits Program**

We're proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
- Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members

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