(Remote, India) Sr. Data Scientist, Analytics R&D

Description

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About PulsePoint:

PulsePoint is a fast-growing healthcare technology company (with adtech roots) using real-time data to transform healthcare. We help brands and agencies interpret the hard-to-read signals across the health journey and unify these digital determinants of health with real-world data to produce the most dimensional view of the customer. Our award-winning advertising platforms use machine learning and programmatic automation to seamlessly activate this data, making marketing, predictive analytics, and decision support easy and instantaneous.

Description

Our Data & Analytics team is at the very heart of what makes PulsePoint an innovative, fast-paced, and market-changing company.

Our path forward is through data and this team is in the driver's seat for the journey.

The Big Picture:

You will build, deliver & continually innovate on PulsePoint's insightful reporting and data-driven solutions. Your efforts help alleviate friction points and streamline processes that enable internal teams to provide exceptional service, powering the decisions of our customers.

In short, you will be the conduit through which we will revolutionize health decisions through real-time data. As a Sr. Data Scientist, R&D, you will use your data science and stats expertise to contribute to R&D projects for DTC, new Data Products, and Bespoke Segments expansion.

Specifically, here are some things we’ll want you to get done:

• Data science & stats-related projects
• Work on R&D projects for DTC
• Help build new Data Products
• Contribute to Bespoke Segments expansion
• Help us design and define the methodology for our measurement products and user identification
• Continuously improve the quality of HCP onboarding/Targeting/measurement
• Audience IQ/DTC product development, Identity graph/Data IQ
• Collaborate with internal teams to delight our customers with timely and accurate data reporting that meets all requirements;
• Research & implement new data products or capabilities
• Automate data visualization and reporting capabilities that empower users (both internal and external) to access data on their own thereby improving quality, accuracy, and speed
• Synthesize raw data into actionable insights to drive business results, identify key trends and opportunities for business teams, and report the findings in a simple, compelling way
• Evaluate and approve additional data partners or data assets to be utilized for identity resolution, targeting, or measurement
• Enhance PulsePoint's data reporting and insights generation capability by publishing internal reports about Health data
• Act as the “Subject Matter Expert” to help internal teams understand the capabilities of our platforms, how to implement & troubleshoot
  
  

Requirements

Required qualifications:

• 4-5+ years of relevant experience in:
• Creating SQL queries from scratch using real business data;
• Highly proficient knowledge of Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, formulas, functions)
• Data analysis & manipulation
• Python
• At least a Bachelor’s degree in Business Intelligence and Analytics or closely related field
• Knowledge of Distributed Systems. PySpark, for large-scale data processing.
• Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes
• Proven experience of experimentation methods and Stats modeling in support of product development and optimization
• Willing and able to work 3:30pm-12:30am IST, you can work fully remotely
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• And one of:
• ELT experience
• Tableau/Looker/PowerBI
• Experience with automation
• Able to organize large data sets to answer critical questions, extrapolate trends, and tell a story
• Experience in Programmatic/Adtech
• Familiarity with health-related data sets
• Google Cloud Architecture
  
  

Watch this video here to learn more about our culture and get a sense of what it’s like to work at PulsePoint!

What are ‘red flags’ for us:

Candidates won’t succeed here if they haven’t worked closely with data sets or have simply translated requirements created by others into SQL without a deeper understanding of how the data impacts our business and, in turn, our clients’ success metrics.

Selection Process:

• Online SQL Test (40 mins)
• Initial Screen (30 mins)
• Hiring Manager Interview (45 mins)
• 1:1s w/ SVP of Data and Sr. Director of Analytics (30 mins each)
• Video call w/ Sr. Data Scientist (30 mins)