Lead Data Scientist - Pittsburgh, United States - BRUNNER

Description

Lead Data Scientists at Brunner lead advanced analytics projects across multiple Brunner clients. They are also instrumental in progressing the agency's R&D initiatives, where we apply cutting-edge approaches to maintain our best-in-class services.

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will find useful insights hidden in data, working with internal teams and external clients to improve strategy and tactics. You'll accomplish all this through applied statistical techniques and high-quality production deployment. You'll address a variety of marketing problems such as identifying best markets or customers, estimating, optimizing, and forecasting marketing campaign performance, processing unstructured data, and predicting behavior. Data management tasks include data acquisition from a variety of sources, ingestion, transformation, loading, and quality control.

A great candidate for this role is adept across the full analytics project lifecycle, from requirements and scoping, through data acquisition and management, EDA, model fitting and selection, insight generation, communication to stakeholders, and deployment. Lead Data Scientists at Brunner are trusted confidants of clients, internal leaders, and are responsible for project success.

Responsibilities

• Selecting features, building, and optimizing models using machine learning and AI
• Data mining
• Expanding and improving our data resources
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Developing clear and meaningful presentations with effective, audience-relevant visualizations
• Creating automated systems and tracking their performance
• Making critical contributions to the development of new, innovative services
• Building client rapport and identify new opportunities for engagements

Requirements

Skills and Qualifications

• In-depth, hands-on experience with commonly used modeling procedures including regression, classification, forecasting, and/or neural networks
• Understanding of how to apply supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms, and regular researching to update your knowledge
• Fluency with R or Python
• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases
• Experience with data visualization tools, such as Tableau, PowerBI, or related R / Python packages
• Preferred candidates will also have experience with:
• Processing unstructured data such as text or images
• Cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Version control systems such as GitHub

Education and Training

• 2 - 5 years of experience in a data science role
• We welcome training in data science programs or competitions such as DataCamp, Udemy, or Kaggle
• Experience maintaining a GitHub repository preferred, not required
• Experience with NoSQL databases preferred, not required
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in program with heavy emphasis on quantitative analysis or programming, such as analytics or data science, economics, physics, mathematics or statistics, computer science, engineering, or quant emphasis in social science (psychology, sociology, policy, etc.)

Who We Are

Brunner is an integrated marketing communications agency with a fast-paced, creative environment. We value Perseverance, Integrity, Tenacity, Curiosity, and Heart in every aspect of our business, especially our team members. We are good people creating good work. Brunner's commitment is to its people - fostering growth within (robust training, low attrition, and commitment to diversity), becoming an extension of their client's teams and maintaining long-term relationships, and creating great marketing programs that achieve business impact for their clients.

Perks

We offer your full traditional benefits including health, dental, vision, a 401k plan, and life insurance. We also offer commuter and transit benefits, as well as an employee wellness benefit for you to enjoy your life outside of work. Add to that unlimited PTO, half day summer Fridays and all the holiday time off you would expect.

Flexible Work Policy

It's simple - work where it's most convenient for you We recognize that we're a mixed group of people with different priorities in our lives, so we empower our employees to create their ideal working , at home, or a hybrid of both. Keep in mind you might need to pop into the office for a client meeting here and there, or even an agency-wide meeting.

Environmental Demands

Normal office environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time including extensive use of PC equipment.

We like everyone, so we are an equal opportunity employer. We do not consider your race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, sex, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or veteran status when deciding to hire you. We just want you to be you.