Senior Data Scientist

You.com is an AI Assistant that makes you more productive, creative, and extraordinary.

About The Role

We are hiring a world-class data scientist to shape our marketing and product growth strategy using actionable data-driven insights. As an early member of the Data Science team, you will have the chance to work cross-functionally in the understanding of marketing campaigns and product funnels, driving the growth of the world's most accurate and creative AI assistant. You are an ideal candidate if you take pride in your dual expertise as both a software engineer and a data scientist, working on projects end-to-end to understand user behavior and growth.

You will:

• Partner with our Marketing and Product teams to acquire, engage, and convert You.com users and customers around the globe at different stages in the funnel.
• Build and deploy machine learning and statistical models such as Multi-touch attribution, Customer Lifetime Value, Segmentation, propensity to buy, and time-series forecasting end to end from concept to production using tools like Git, Pyspark, and Airflow.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines tailored for marketing attribution analysis, product funnel optimization, and managing user state machines.
• Use advanced statistical modeling and machine learning methodologies to uncover causal connections between user behavior and their conversions, and develop metrics to measure the effectiveness of Marketing campaigns.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute A/B tests, identify impactful business questions, conduct deep-dive analysis, and communicate findings and actionable recommendations to audiences at all levels to drive data-driven decisions.

You have:

• A BS in Computer Science and equivalent 3+ years of professional experience as a Data Scientist or in a similar role.
• Strong experience writing production-quality code in Python and Spark, including Spark SQL, DataFrames, Spark Streaming, RDD caching, Spark MLib, and the ability to debug and optimize Spark code.
• Proven track record working with large datasets of sparse, high-dimensional data. Experience in pre-processing and analyzing such data using statistical techniques to gain actionable insights and identify potential risks for the model.
• Experience working with cloud computing platforms such as Azure and AWS.
• Proficiency with relational data modeling and SQL.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – you pride yourself on being able to talk to non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with statistical methods including A/B Testing, experimental design, regression, causal inference with observational data, and time series modeling.
• Familiarity with one or more of the machine learning methods such as classification, ranking, and clustering.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of working with minimal supervision, demonstrating a high level of independence and initiative in tackling complex problems.

About You.com:

With a deep foundation in search, You.com is truthful, accurate, and transparent, and addresses hallucinations.

You.com was founded by leading AI research scientists, Richard Socher and Bryan McCann. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce and is the third most-cited researcher in natural language processing (NLP) with over 170,000 citations. Bryan was a lead research scientist at Salesforce Research specializing in deep learning and NLP. Over the years, Richard and Bryan’s collaborative research has had significant implications for the field of NLP, particularly in the areas of word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering. Richard's contributions were recently recognized with his inclusion in Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list in 2023 as one of the “most influential people in AI” and the prestigious 2023 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award for his influential research published in 2013.

Since its founding, You.com has transformed how people discover and engage with information online as an AI Assistant that helps people accomplish and solve everyday needs. Recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 AI Innovators for 2023 and featured in Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2022,” You.com has pioneered many solutions for Large Language Model (LLM) challenges, especially around trust and accuracy. You.com notably introduced the first consumer-facing LLM with access to the internet to provide up-to-date answers and include citations. You.com's API further enables other LLM-based chatbots to improve their accuracy with real-time web access. You.com also emphasizes personalized AI chat experiences, offering tailored responses based on users’ backgrounds, interests, and preferences while respecting privacy and ensuring transparent control over personal data.

You.com is accessible on desktop, Chrome web extensions, iOS and Android apps, and WhatsApp.