Sr Data Scientist - Next Gen Last Mile Delivery (Statistical Modelling and Applied ML)
Company: Target
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: May 8, 2022
Job Description:
Location: 100 Mathilda Pl, Sunnyvale, California, United States,
94086Join 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 quickerRequirements:
- 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
algorithmsWhy 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/volunteeringAmericans 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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