Senior Data Scientist, Justworks
Marketing
Business operations platform
Job no longer available
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an experienced data scientist with a curious mindset and an eye for simplifying complex problems
- You’re practiced at framing data science problems and designing creative solutions that drive business impact, with hands-on experience in marketing applications
- You’re excited to collaborate cross functionally and to communicate your findings to ensure your work drives business impact
- Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
- Advanced degree, or global equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related fields
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a data scientist or analyst, with experience in generating insights & recommendations for growth or marketing applications
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate analyses into actionable strategies
- Proficiency in causal inference and experimentation
- Track record of driving business impact through machine learning techniques in a professional setting
- Proficient in at least one statistical programming language (Python or R)
- Fluent in SQL
- Familiarity with a cloud-based data stack (e.g. Snowflake, dbt)
- Domain experience in Marketing or Adtech is preferred
What the job involves
- Justworks is looking for a Data Scientist to join our Data Services team
- You’ll partner with Marketing, Business Operations, and Technology teams, in addition to other data scientists, to create a rich understanding of our ongoing marketing initiatives and inform marketing strategy going forward
- Use causal inference and predictive models to identify and unlock opportunities for marketing-led growth across the customer lifecycle (e.g. attribution modeling, customer segmentation)
- Design and analyze experiments on our marketing campaigns to validate & optimize budgets across marketing channels, and to understand the impact of our initiatives on customer growth and retention
- Build tools and frameworks to improve experimentation and measure incrementality of marketing efforts
- Collaborate with data analysts and data scientists across our growth functions to analyze and optimize customer journeys
- Partner closely with our Marketing function, Business Operations, and Technology teams to understand their goals and requirements
- Independently own the prioritization, scoping, and delivery of data science initiatives that support marketing strategy & execution
- Present and document key learnings and recommendations to teams in a manner that productively influences decisions
- Partner with the data engineering team to improve platform capabilities around data ingestion, data modeling, data quality, and insights generation
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company values
- Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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Founders
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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