Senior Data Scientist

Ibotta is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our fast growing Core Data & Analytics team and move forward our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. We are a cross-functional team that creates data and analytical solutions throughout the business. We seek to understand, and provide recommendations to spur business growth, serving as an expert within the company for delivering solutions that solve complex challenges.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for using the latest developments in statistics and machine learning. Using these skills, you will identify and build strategic opportunities to grow the business, support initiatives, and drive value. In addition, you will be expected to build accurate and reliable Machine Learning models for use throughout the organization. This role will immediately impact AI strategy and drive impact through the support, guidance, and collaboration with multiple teams as part of our analytics organization. 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:

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

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

• Establish deep cross-departmental relationships with stakeholders and peers to understand business problems and opportunities for improvement

• Analyze, and at times build, large and novel datasets to extract actionable insights to inform model development and understand customer behavior and or product performance

• Ability to prioritize projects based on business impact and value; lead and manage large scale projects

• Become an expert of the Ibotta Data Ecosystem and how various teams leverage Ibotta’s suite of data to answer domain specific business questions through advanced analytic techniques

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

• Provide data science mentoring and education to this team and others across the company

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

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience making significant impacts in a professional data science or machine learning role

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

• A history of and passion for driving important decisions using data and data storytelling

• A love of learning and continuous development, including staying at the forefront of the latest advances in data science and machine learning 

• Broad-scale community contributions to the fields of data science and machine learning in the way of conference presentations, professional publications, and/or recognized internet presence are a plus

• Expert-level knowledge, skills, and abilities in creating, developing, and applying a variety of new or existing machine learning and statistical algorithms

• Expert-level SQL knowledge and experience with manipulating complex data to apply business rules for improved feature engineering within data lakes, distributed systems, and data streams

• Expert-level Python knowledge, skills, and abilities. Spark or PySpark experience is a plus

• Excellent statistical analysis skills, with a solid understanding of experimental design and time series analysis a plus

• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience in MLOps a plus

About Ibotta ("I bought a...")

Ibotta (NYSE: IBTA) is a leading performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million