About the Role

Houzz is looking for a world-class Product Data Scientist to join our Pro Data Science team. This team is focused on uncovering critical insights and delivering models to leverage those findings thus powering intelligent business decisions. As a Product Data Scientist here at Houzz you are on the front line of uncovering insights to directly impact Houzz Pro Software.

What You'll Do

• Critical projects will focus on data-driven insights to guide product development and business direction
• Collaborate with leadership, product, data, and engineering teams to identify, define, and launch strategic and operational data science initiatives to improve Houzz Pro product offerings
• Define key metrics (KPIs) to guide business decision-making across various aspects of our site
• Manage the key metrics of the business and product efficiently
• Design product experiments, interpret results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions, and conduct root cause analysis
• Own the end-to-end execution of projects by working with a broad cross-functional team
• Work with data infrastructure/product engineering teams to define the data collection needs
• Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions
• Develop and maintain data products to serve real-time business insights or to be used in production environments

At a Minimum, We’d Like You to Have

• Masters Degree with 5+ years of experience working within a DS role in a high-growth tech company
• Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries such as using aggregate functions and all types of joins using Hive or Presto.
• Strong programming skills in Python or R
• A track record of making data-driven recommendations with real business impact
• Experience with machine learning and statistical modeling with a passion for model evaluation and applications
• Proficiency in advanced experimental designing, testing, and analysis
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Experience driving large cross-functional initiatives
• Self-motivated, independent, and eager to learn

Ideally, You'll Also Have

• Experience working with remote teams with a time zone difference
• Experience with SaaS solution, user engagement and funnel conversion
• Ability to learn and act quickly, making decisions and drawing conclusions in the face of ambiguity