Staff Data Scientist, Ontra
$196-274k
+ Eligible for unit-based equity grants
More information about location
Contract Automation and Intelligence for asset management firms
Open for applications
Contract Automation and Intelligence for asset management firms
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$196-274k
+ Eligible for unit-based equity grants
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To change the way legal services are delivered to enterprises.
Role
Who you are
- Track record of delivering tangible impact: 6+ years experience manipulating data sets to get insights that drive business outcomes
- Ambition and Autonomy: You thrive in an environment where you require minimal direction/oversight for execution of projects. Opportunities to drive initiatives excite you
- Growth mindset: Just because things have been a certain way, doesn't mean they cannot change. You are persistent in the face of roadblocks, quickly identifying if a roadblock is worth persiting or if a change of direction will drive more impact
- Continuous learning: You view feedback as a gift, and believe you will do your best work if you incorporate it into your skillset
- Servant Leader: Disagree and commit. You feel comfortable sharing feedback including constructive feedback, but once a decision is made you champion it
- Advanced scripting and experience in NLP: Expertise in a scripting language (python, R, etc.) and interest, demonstrated experience/interest in NLP
- Effective communication: Excellent communication and problem solving skills and ability to effectively collaborate with functional leadership across the organization
What the job involves
- Ontra is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to help propel the future of legal tech AI using data
- The legal industry has remained fairly unchanged for years, however, recent advances in AI present a unique opportunity to change it
- Now imagine, you combine the power of AI with a proprietary data set, and a legal network of skilled professionals, that's the opportunity waiting to be unleashed by the Staff Data Scientist
- The Staff Data Scientist will work with product stakeholders to identify areas where data insights can provide business value and will devise data projects that address those needs
- When executing on these projects, the Data Scientist will be both hands-on and a technical lead: contributing and guiding other Data team members’ efforts to uncover valuable insights from our legal data sets that inform product development and business strategy
- As you combine your data expertise with growing knowledge of Ontra’s products and business, you also will lead efforts to define the future of how data will be used at Ontra to power business growth
- Influence product development: Using your expertise in advanced data methodologies, collaborate with the Machine Learning team to identify opportunities and build solutions to help scale our machine learning product development
- Grow relationships and data culture: Build strong relationships with product managers and your machine learning colleagues
- Democratize data insights: Perform statistical analyses and create informative data visualizations that deliver value to stakeholders across the organization
- Inform strategy: Collaborate with product and business leaders to develop metrics and dashboards that support company objectives and key results (OKRs)
- Serve as a subject-matter expert: Provide guidance both to stakeholders on how to use data in decision making
- Be a technical mentor: Provide technical leadership to peers to help them deliver on projects and grow their skill sets
Our take
High-volume legal work can be a drag for large enterprises, who end up straining their internal resources or their bottom line as they outsource the work. Ontra (previously InCloudCounsel) slides in as a solution to this problem by pairing businesses with a network of freelance corporate lawyers to manage their routine legal work in a more cost-effective way.
In addition to enterprises, the company is an attractive proposition for lawyers who want a more flexible working life than Big Law can usually offer. Ontra attempts to avoid direct confrontation with Big Law by focusing more on routine work and document management tasks.
Following Ontra's healthy investment, the company has made some pretty big strategic moves - mainly driving product growth, onboarding top people onto its Board of Directors team and acquiring smaller companies like FundFormer and Captain to improve its product capabilities.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$200m
SERIES B
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $240m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to participate in one of Ontra’s unit-based compensation programs
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance base plans at no additional cost
- Employer-sponsored retirement plans
- Hybrid/remote work flexibility & WFH budget (equivalent of $1K USD)
- Annual professional development stipend (equivalent of $2K USD)
- 4 months of parental leave (52 weeks for UK employees)
- Unlimited vacation
- Twice-weekly lunch perk
- And much more!
Company values
- Respect - We believe in candid, empathetic communication at all times.
- Accountability - We follow through on commitments to ourselves and each other.
- Improvement - We innovate the way that we work and the products/services we deliver.
- Openness - We encourage transparency with our team, customers, and partners.
- Results - We expect productivity over activity.
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Troy Pospisil
(CEO)Majored in Economics at NYU before joining Deloitte as a Management Consultant. Was an Investment Professional at H.I.G. Capital.
Ben Levi
(COO)Studied at Yale and Harvard Law School, and worked on Obama's 2008 campaign. Was an Associate at Kirkland & Ellis and founded Saas company Tembo.
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