Data Scientist

Job Description :The mission of the Data Science team at Confluent is to serve as the central nervous system of all things data for the company: we build analytics infrastructure, insights, models and tools, to empower data-driven thinking, and optimize every part of the business. There are limitless opportunities for an ambitious data scientist to make an immediate and meaningful impact within a hyper growth start-up. We are looking for a talented and driven individual to accelerate our data science efforts. This person will work closely with our C suite and various cross functional leaders throughout marketing, sales, customer success, product and engineering. The data science team enables data-centric decision making throughout the company to drive better and fast decisions. Successful candidates will have strong technical capabilities, a can-do attitude, and are highly collaborative. Responsibilities: Build and maintain data foundations, metrics and dashboards to monitor the business performance and extract actionable insights Apply quantitative analysis, data mining, and presentation of data to fuel business growth and drive customer success Design and analyze experiments to test new product ideas, go to market strategies and/or funnel optimization; Convert the results into actionable recommendations Build data products to improve operational efficiencies organizationally to scale with a hyper growth start-up Inform, influence, support, and execute business decisions with senior leadership and business partners What We&39;re Looking For: 2+ years industry experience working with SQL (Teradata, Oracle, MySQL, BigQuery, etc.) and R (or Python) Proficiency in applying statistical modeling and/or machine learning Proficiency in data visualization (eg. Tableau, Looker, Matlab, etc.) Bachelor or advanced degrees in a quantitative discipline: statistics, operations research, computer science, informatics, engineering, applied mathematics, economics, etc The ability to communicate cross-functionally, derive requirements and deliver insightful analysis and/or models; ability to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences, including executives What Give You An Edge: Experience building data warehousing and ETL pipelines Experience with Unix/Linux environment Experience in developing data apps with Python/Java, high charts etc Excellent communications skills, with the ability to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences, including executives Experience working in the B2B growth/marketing or sales domains: CRM, sales effectiveness, branding, segmentation, web analytics, attribution, funnel optimization, etc.