Senior/Staff Data Scientist, biorender
Analytics
Scientific diagram creator
Job no longer available
Scientific diagram creator
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience post academia, working in an analytical role – leading data discoveries, strategies and discussion with non technical stakeholders in the business
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools such as Metabase, Mode, Tableau or Looker; strong ability to craft meaningful dashboards that tell a story
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders to define KPIs, then build them into a data warehouse with tooling such as dbt and Airflow/Dagster/Luigi. Knowledge of ETL / data warehouse principles (but don’t worry - you’ll have ample data engineering support!)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to influence non-technical audiences with analytical insights and data visualizations; past experience with data dictionaries / documentation / data governance
- Comfort working with complex and fast-evolving data sets; the ability to document assumptions and communicate data limitations
- Stakeholder management and prioritization - you feel comfortable working with stakeholders of varying technical abilities and empathize with their pain points; you want to use data to make their lives easier
- Basic knowledge of Github/version control and command line preferred
- [Bonus] Experience with notebook tools (e.g. Hex, Databricks, Jupyter) to run statistical analysis in a repeatable way
- [Bonus] Past experience with helping an organization “level up” their data skills and competencies
- [Bonus] Experience working with event data / event streams for funnel analysis, product KPIs, and monitoring new feature rollouts
- We typically expect candidates to have 6+ years of experience to achieve these accomplishments. However, we recognize that career paths vary, and your unique journey may have equipped you with the necessary skills
What the job involves
- As a Senior/Staff Data Scientist at BioRender, you'll be part of our centralized Data organization, contributing to our strategic roadmap, building our data foundations, and ensuring we tackle high-impact projects for long-term success
- Partnering closely with Data Engineering, our mission is to empower self-service, user-driven insights to fuel BioRender's growth
- This role offers the chance to deliver impactful insights, analytics, and reporting. As a small team, you'll also engage in ETL, dbt, and data model design
- In this role, you'll elevate our team's understanding of statistics and best practices while defining processes, recruiting, mentoring, and shaping our growing team
- In your first 3 months:
- Meet all stakeholders and develop a regular cadence for meeting with them; assess and learn about our existing KPIs; get up to speed on our dbt / data modeling best practices and identify opportunities for improvement
- Help define + model out at least 1-2 core, company KPI and build out / refine existing dashboards to use this new definition
- In your first 6 months:
- Champion analyses or dashboards for 1 key stakeholder (e.g. activation milestones, validate hypotheses for if a metric is the correct one to be looking at, help the product team set up a dashboard to monitor quarterly goals / new features, etc.); help contribute to our quarterly planning initiatives
- Have exposure to + impact on multiple analyses, dashboards, and KPI definitions; at least some projects should be cross-functional in nature (i.e. impact multiple teams, not just 1 stakeholder)
- In your first year:
- Have done extensive development in our dbt environment; have helped the Data org assess our existing BI tooling + helped BioRender migrate / roll out to another more scalable vendor
- Participate in hiring / onboarding for more junior team members; helped team establish best practices across analysis, data visualization, leveraging statistics for insights, and building out data sources in dbt
- Have significantly impacted BioRender’s ability to provide self-service analytics for the majority of asks; helped recruit for, onboard, and mentor a team of data scientists
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
One of the best ways for science students and experts to communicate ideas is through diagrams, but not everyone has the illustration skills to pull this off. Whilst computer graphics can be used instead of manually drawing scientific imagery, the lack of a dedicated resource for such images prevents diagrams from being consistent and professional.
Biorender hosts thousands of pre-made icons and templates to be used in the creation of diagrams across over 30 different life science fields. The resources follow consistent quality standards and can be dragged and dropped within the platform to create scientific diagrams, to be used by students, teachers, labs, and educational institutions.
Other visual libraries that include scientific icons and templates exist for the creation of diagrams, but Biorender has presented a novel idea with its exhaustive library, offering to produce missing icons on demand within 48 hours. The entire library is free to use alongside basic design features by individuals for educational purposes, with more advanced features and paid licenses being available for labs and institutions. Its success at visualising complex diagrams and information has helped Biorender achieve several rounds of substantial funding.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$17.1m
SERIES A
Jan 2018
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $17.3m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health and dental benefits for you and your family from your first day, including an EAP, HSA, and extended mental health benefits.
- Recharge Long Weekends: In addition to vacation days, our 3 annual BioRender Recharge long weekends offer you a chance to unplug and reset!
- Stock Options: Our employees are also part-owners of BioRender and reap the benefits of their shared hard work.
- Parental Leave Benefits: To help your growing family while you're away from work, we offer a salary top up and even a new baby bonus!
- PAW Perks: Keep your furry family members healthy with our Pet & Animal Wellness veterinary bill reimbursement program.
- Learn and Grow: We'll support your professional growth through regular goal-setting, mentorship, and an annual professional development budget for courses and conferences.
- Team Events: Virtual lunch and learns, show & tells, games, and happy hours help us to stay connected in a remote-first environment.
- In-person Hackathons: Twice per year, we bring our whole team together in Toronto for a week of innovative team work, and cap it off with a company social!
- Work from Anywhere: Our team members have the flexibility to work from another country for up to 3 months per year.
Company values
- Team first (best picture, not best actor): We are collaborative and accountable; we acknowledge and celebrate each other’s wins and treat each other with respect.
- User obsessed: We go above and beyond to deliver a world-class experience for our team, customers, and candidates; we ‘act out the scene’ to understand our users’ needs and in turn create raving fans.
- Demand excellence: We are on a continual path of self-improvement; we demand excellence of ourselves and of each other.
- We know nothing: We seek to find the root cause (first principles problem solving); we are humble, self-aware, and seek to be proven wrong.
- Transparency (Candor with care): We welcome and offer transparent feedback; when someone has “spinach in their teeth”, we tell them candidly yet compassionately.
- Take action, and ownership: If it’s to be, it’s up to me (we are drivers, not passengers); we take bold calculated risks, and learn from the results.
- Invent and Simplify: We are creatively resourceful; we turn chaos into order, and we communicate clearly and concisely.
- Ruthlessly prioritize: We focus AND execute: we build the right thing, then build the thing right.
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
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Founders
Shiz Aoki
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Lead Science Illustrator for National Geographic. Also Founder and Medical Illustrator for Anatomize Studios Inc.
Katya Shteyn
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Software Engineer for Dropbox and as a Software Engineering Intern for Google.
Ryan Marien
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder of SnapSaves. Also Founded Buytopia.ca.
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