Lead/Senior Data Scientist

We are bringing transparency and trust to the used car industry. Data is core to this transformation, from building best-in-class pricing, to loan decisioning, to logistics optimization, to in-product recommendations. If you’re passionate about using data to fix an enormous, antiquated industry, you’ll fit right in.

The Data

Millions of cars are bought and sold in the US every year, but knowing exactly how much your car is worth is a challenge. We believe that fixing the used car industry requires providing customers with fair, detailed pricing reports in beautiful, easy-to-understand interfaces. By combining as much data as we can get our hands on, from the millions of listings available online, to car auction sales, to every vehicle’s specific repair history, we’re building the most accurate, transparent pricing tool in the industry.

The Impact

As a two-sided marketplace, serving both car buyers and sellers, our vehicle data and pricing models are core to the business. As the first data scientist, you’ll have a direct, immediate impact on the success of the company. Initial projects will include exploring data, building models, informing product decisions, overseeing experiments, and collaborating closely with engineers on our pricing team. Over time, you’ll play a crucial role in growing and mentoring a team of data scientists that will be involved in nearly every initiative with us, including lending, fraud, lead scoring, user acquisition, optimal resource allocation, vehicle routing, and more!

The Team

We are a friendly, helpful community of engineers with a diverse background of experience. We espouse autonomy, trust, and learning from each other. The engineering team is excited to have grown to the capacity to support our first full-time data scientist. We believe that embedding data science into our engineering team provides a unique opportunity for significant autonomy and influence fully supported by the engineering resources you need.Responsibilities

• • As our first data scientist, you’ll lead the design of our data architecture, with support from our engineering team
  • Build and own our pricing models in collaboration with the engineering and business teams
  • Guide our data acquisition strategy and priorities
  • Suggest, run, and analyze experiments across the company
  • Help develop and mentor a team of data scientists

Requirements

• • Knowledge of machine learning techniques, especially intuition for their benefits and drawbacks in real-world applications
  • Experience wrangling data to explore new model features, build visualizations, and clean data
  • 3+ years of experience working as a data scientist and experience working with multiple data architectures in production
  • Proficiency in a statistical computing language (such as R or Python) and SQL.
  • Strong knowledge of statistics and experimental design
  • Curiosity, desire to learn, passion for providing a great product to customers
  • Experience mentoring other data scientists, as well as excitement at being an individual contributor to start
  • (Nice to have, but not required) Production engineering experience. If you have engineering experience, that’s great, and basic coding skills are a must, but you’ll also be strongly supported by engineering for the heavy lifting, code-wise.

EXTERNAL REFERRAL BONUS!
We offer a generous referral bonus for your assistance in helping us find great engineers. You must know the engineer you are recommending, and they should not be someone we’re already talking to. We may also ask you to help court them if needed. 

WHY US?
For more than a century, people have bought and sold cars exactly the same way. We are evolving the car buying experience by pairing a technology-first approach with superior customer service. Our end goal? To build a more trustworthy marketplace that makes it really simple to buy, own, and sell the cars that make life go.
We’re a team of ex-Google and ex-Dropbox leaders with demonstrated ability to successfully build teams and create game-changing products. We’re backed by leading Silicon Valley investors and poised for enormous growth this year.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
We believe diversity in the workplace cultivates empathy and provides the understanding necessary to serve a wide customer base, which in turn leads us to build better products. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.

Best Regards,
Kris
Kris Young
Account Manager
BHO Tech
San Jose, San Francisco Ca
Phone: 866 816-1615 x 823
kris@bhotech.com
www.bhotech.com