Associate Data Scientist, Client Analytics

Ibotta is seeking an Associate Data Scientist, Client Analytics to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. Our growing Core Data & Analytics Data Science Team provides high-quality, on-time data science-related products and services across all business areas and teams within Ibotta. We do this by providing thought leadership, subject matter expertise, evangelism and governance of business-critical data science initiatives.

This role will be primarily focused on building data assets and analytics solutions for the revenue organization.

As an Associate Data Scientist, you’ll have the unique, challenging, and rewarding opportunity to build the foundation of data and data science within the company. You’ll be able to create and own greenfield opportunities to make big positive impacts on the business across the Revenue organization. You’ll have the chance to own the data science technology of one or more important business domains, from collaborating with stakeholders, through the full model development lifecycle. You’ll be able to advance not only your technical skills, but your organizational and leadership skills as well, by contributing to the creation of best practices for the team and company, and learning from the more senior scientists and managers on the team.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Provide subject matter expertise and ownership of one or more of the company’s core business domains

• Initiate and drive collaboration with stakeholders, architects, and data engineers to discover, define, cleanse, and refine the data needed for analysis and modeling

• Analyze large and novel datasets to extract actionable insights to inform model development and understand consumer behavior

• Provide customized views of large and complex datasets to support data analysis and business decision-making

• Inform experimental design to formulate solutions addressing major business challenges and innovation opportunities

• Build models using a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques, from selecting the best type of model for the problem to using techniques to measure and optimize model performance

• Harden data pipelines and models for production deployment and monitoring of performance over time

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values of Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 1+ years of progressive experience in a professional data science, machine learning, statistics, or analytics role

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or similar field required; Advanced degree preferred

• Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., Databricks, SQL Python/R, Spark, Hive, Airflow, Git/GitHub etc.), data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes

• Broad foundational skills in developing and applying a variety of machine learning and statistical algorithms, with hands-on experience in several areas of measurement and/or modeling techniques

• Demonstrated experience working on all stages of a data science project: scoping and gathering requirements, wrangling and cleaning complex datasets, developing and evaluating alternative technical solutions, productionalize models, and communicating value and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Exposure to release processes (automated testing and code reviews) and prototyping, building, releasing, and monitoring mission-critical models in high traffic applications a big plus

• Excellent communication skills in both written and verbal form, including development of data summaries, visualizations and other storytelling methods

• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

• Solid analytical ability, intellectual curiosity, conceptual thinking, and creative problem-solving skills with a drive to go beyond the symptoms of a problem to diagnose root causes

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the proven ability to collaborate across functional areas, demonstrate empathy and manage stakeholder expectations and drive projects to completion with sen