Senior Data Scientist

at  Red Bull

DO YOU HAVE THE REQUIRED DATA SCIENCE SKILLS TO DRIVE REAL IMPACT AT ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE BRANDS GLOBALLY?

In this role, you’ll contribute to global Data Science projects to enable business stakeholders to make better data-driven decisions. You’ll work closely with other team members and business stakeholders to build, run, and improve data science products. You’ll focus on statistical analyses to solve ad-hoc business problems to generate impact. Finally, never content with the status-quo, you will also be responsible for innovation – for instance by introducing new data-driven business ideas, new statistical methods, new data products, or by supporting new business processes.

QUALIFICATIONS

4+ years of experience in Data Science. Previous experience working as a Machine Learning Expert is a plus
Masters or Doctorate in relevant field, for instance: Mathematics, Statistics, Science (including data, behavioural, social, econ, …)
Good command of English, both spoken and written. German a plus
Previous experience managing a team is a plus
Programming: know at least one of R, Python, SQL with the ability and willingness to learn the other two
Data Literacy: ability to prepare datasets ensuring top quality such that essence of said data and the implications for the problem at hand can be grasped quickly
Statistical Reasoning: theoretical and applied understanding of Stats, Probability and ML Algorithms and know how to use these tools to reduce uncertainty in a business context (regression, visualization)
Technical Literacy: applied understanding of modern computing allows the candidate to do things which go beyond the strict definition of Data Science (git, API calls, web crawling, …)
Presentation Skills: present coherent data stories at the appropriate level of abstraction given the audience
Stakeholder Management: skilled at building mutually beneficial connections with functional stakeholders
Pragmatic Critical Thinking: intuitively consider relevant costs/benefits in all decisions and act accordingly
Outcome Driven: highly motivated to add value and to demonstrate that impact to the organization
Scientific Reasoning/ Scoping: ability to define and formulate new questions, in addition to answering given ones
Grit: proven capability to see things through to the end even if initial feedback is discouraging

Please refer the Job description for details