Data Scientist - Square for Restaurants
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: New York, United States
Company Description
Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.
There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.
Job Description
As a Square for Restaurants Data Scientists, you’ll leverage data, analytics, and machine learning to help the team make data-driven decisions. The Restaurants team within Square is a focused initiative charged with empowering Food & Drink businesses of all kinds to start, run, and grow their businesses through advanced workflows, specialized products, business insights, and inclusion in the greater Square ecosystem. 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 Restaurants team owns multiple products that Food & Drink businesses use, such as the Point-of-Sale, the Kitchen Display, and the overall product experience of restaurant type merchants. As Data Scientists, we operate as full-stack data partners, having the ability to play a crucial role in every part of every product that the product team owns, from the inception of a new feature to the automated insights derived from machine learning models. These tasks include:
Partnering with product stakeholders to make data-driven decisions across the organization by leveraging descriptive and predictive analytics where it will have a material impact
Applying a diverse set of tactics including statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning, to solve problems as well as independently research and produce actionable insights
Owning, coordinating, and solving complex, cross-functional problems
Communicating analysis and decisions to high-level stakeholders and executives in verbal, visual, and written media
Designing A/B tests and evaluating the results, communicating to the team the actual product impact that they make
Leading the data strategy of Square for Restaurant sub-teams, influencing them to make well-informed architectural and design decisions that affect data at Square
Providing comprehensive day-to-day analytics support, developing tools and resources to empower data access and self-service so your expertise can be leveraged where it is most impactful
Qualifications
You have:
3+ 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)
Familiarity with data warehouse design, feature logging, and writing ETLs
Additional Information
We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Perks
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
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.