Sr Data Scientist - Next Gen Last Mile Delivery (Statistical Modelling and Applied ML)
Company: Jobget
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: May 8, 2022
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Job Description:
Location: 100 Mathilda Pl, Sunnyvale, California, United States,
94086 Join Target's Last Mile and Operations Design team where your
goal will be to accelerate omni-channel experimentation to foster a
culture of continuous innovation at Target. We believe that
continuous innovation is critical to delivering and exceeding our
brand promise of "Expect More Pay Less" to Target's guests
irrespective of their preferred channel of engagement and commerce.
You will enable continuous innovation and drive business
performance in our Target Last Mile Delivery space. A Sr Data
Scientist role within Last Mile and Operations Design is a chance
to help develop our in-house strength for getting the maximum value
from Target's scale and data assets in service of improving the
guest and carrier/courier experience. We see data as a product and
an opportunity to experiment and refine our approach to new guest
experiences. Together, we positively impact changes to various
initiatives, processes and interdependencies that require
exceptional data collection, measurement and analysis-ultimately
leading to quicker and more meaningful decision-making. This is a
role for someone passionate about data, feature experimentation,
and impacting business strategy. As a Sr Data Scientist you will:
Serve as an advocate of our data-driven culture across Product,
Business Operations, and Engineering to help them utilize insights
that'll direct their efforts towards initiatives with highest
impacts Develop statistical models to drive efficient route
optimization, providing metrics on model performance, and course
adjustment Execute solutions to business problems using data
analysis, data mining, forecasting, optimization tools, and machine
learning techniques and statistics Analyze and explore data in our
ecosystem, work with the product manager to design in-product
experiments, analyze the results, and provide strategic
recommendations. Synthesize analysis and results in compelling
storylines and communicate to key stakeholders. You should have the
ability to tell a story around the problem, the solution and the
impact and value of implementing a solution Partner closely with
our Product Managers and/or business partners to identify gaps in
product offering by conducting comprehensive data analysis, and
accelerating the analytics maturity (predictive & prescriptive) in
key product areas Define data to be collected for measuring the
success of new product features or business strategies, define
KPIs, and work with engineering and across functional teams on
tracking and instrumentation of data Strive for query optimization
problems on large data sets that will be leveraged by operations
research, business owners, and other stakeholders Design and build
self-service dashboards using a mixture of analytical and
visualization techniques to derive actionable insight from data to
influences business decisions Democratize data and insights as you
strive to deliver self-service tools to your partners and enable
them to make better decisions quicker Requirements: M.S. in
Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Bio Statistics, Operations
Research and/or Computer Science 3 years of experience deploying
algorithms in a production environment 4 years of experience using
data science and technology approaches to solve real business
problems Proficiency at scale with the following: SQL, Python, R,
Hadoop, Spark, Hive, visualization software, etc. Excellent
communication skills with the ability to speak and write narratives
to both business and technical teams as well as clearly translate
ideas between them Comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems
Solid understanding of statistics and machine learning algorithms
Why work with us at Target Last Mile and Ops Design? We Care, Grown
and Win Together We love open-source Many of our team members
contribute to open source communities and get to do it during work
time. We try to contribute back to our communities where we can and
are grateful to be able to open source some of our own projects
You'll work directly on the problems that have the most impact on
Target's entire Recommendations/Personalization strategy for all
Digital/Target.com products. We value diversity We believe that
diversity and inclusion are core importance when creating positive
experiences for our guests and we think it's critically important
when building our teams We value our team members, treating our
team members like people, not like cogs in a machine. We value our
team members for who they are, not just what they can get done. We
are parents, hobbyists, enthusiasts, travelers, family members,
community members and can offer flexibility to our team members'
schedules/work arrangements so they can flourish both in and
outside of work Career development and our '50 days of Learning'
mantra allow team member to learn from experts, publish, work on
patents, grow new skillset as well as mentoring/volunteering
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Target will provide
reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language
interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application
process upon your request as required to comply with applicable
laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this
application process, please visit your nearest Target store or
Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at
1-800-440-0680 for additional information.
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