Data Scientist, Square for Restaurants
- New York, NY, USA
- Employees can work remotely
- Full-time
- Position open to remote: Yes
Company Description
Job Description
Data Scientists on the Lifecycle Analytics team at Square embed within product teams and leverage engineering, analytics, and machine learning to empower data-driven decision making in the full lifecycle of product development. Data Scientists on this team lead experimentation and growth initiatives, develop automation solutions to personalize product experiences, provide insights to our sellers about their business, and drive strategic decisions with data. Square’s mission is economic empowerment, and our team supports this by using data to understand and empathize with our customers, thereby enabling us to build a remarkable product experience.
The Square for Restaurants product team focuses on improving the operations and experience of working in a restaurant through surfaces like the Restaurants Point of Sale app, the Restaurants Kitchen Display System, managerial tools within the Square Dashboard, and many exciting future projects. The work doesn’t stop with the software and the team strives to put themselves in the shoes of their customers to find inventive new ways to help them run their businesses.
You Will:
Partner with product stakeholders to make data-driven decisions across the organization by leveraging descriptive and predictive analytics where it will have a material impact
Apply a diverse set of tactics including statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning, to solve problems as well as independently research and produce actionable insights
Own, coordinate, and solve complex, cross-functional problems
Communicate analysis and decisions to high-level stakeholders and executives in verbal, visual, and written media
Lead the data strategy of Restaurants product engineering, influencing them to make well-informed architecture and design decisions that affect data at Square
Provide comprehensive day-to-day analytics support, develop tools and resources to empower data access and self-service so your expertise can be leveraged where it is most impactful
Work with other team members on medium and long-term initiatives that span across product domains
Qualifications
You have:
2+ years of analytics experience or equivalent
Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to build strong relationships and influence with product partners
Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects that depend on the contributions of others in a variety of disciplines
Fluency with data, analytics and visualization technologies (We primarily use SQL, Looker, and Python)
Experience in applying both data-backed heuristics and machine-learning techniques to solve practical product problems such as predicting churn, cross selling, clustering user archetypes, and more
Familiarity with data warehouse design, development and best practices
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources