Staff Data Scientist

About Us:

At Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT), we're unlocking the power of educator-created content. TpT gives educators access to a trusted, one-of-a-kind community. We are the world's first marketplace of our kind and founded by a teacher, for teachers as the go-to platform for teacher-created content for nearly 15 years. We are currently serving more than 7.5 million users and more than 85% of U.S. teachers. TpT is focused on building the next generation of e-learning experiences for millions of students and teachers across the world. If you haven't heard of TpT yet and want to learn more, just ask any teacher!

Role:

As a  Staff Data Scientist, you are embedded on a Product team, working with product managers, engineers, data analysts, and business teams, and using your curiosity, creativity, and statistical skills to find valuable insights about our marketplace, our systems, and our users.You use techniques such as statistical modeling, machine learning, natural language processing, and data visualization to explore data, test hypotheses, identify underlying causes and patterns, and find the best ways to turn these insights into better decisions and product improvements. You actively support the success of other Data Scientists, ensuring that the team’s projects and processes are focused, on track, and high quality and that partnerships with other teams are effective and coordinated. You actively work to advance the role of data science within our products and business, and advance the capabilities of the data science team.

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical support for data science projects owned by the team, as well as mentorship and guidance to the members of the team, and provides technical leadership within at least one area of expertise
• Understands latest developments in data science, and can apply them to the team’s work when appropriate. Enrich the team through sharing recent advances in data science research.
• Drives company-wide impact and informs strategic decision-making by generating and testing hypotheses, surfacing insights, and building models.
• Collaborates with stakeholder teams on projects, asking clear questions to gain understanding of their challenges and decisions, and proposing impactful research plans.
• Partners with other research and analysis teams at TpT to extend our culture and practice of learning, institutional knowledge, and domain expertise.
• Delivers compelling reports, presentations and materials on the results of research that can be easily understood by non-technical audiences.
• Analyzes data quality issues, identifying root causes and remedies.
• Helps to recruit new team members by conducting interviews that assess a candidates’ technical ability and demonstration of our values.

Qualities of a successful candidate:

• A track record of value-creation in previous organizations, using data science techniques to model and explain user behavior
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and Python for data science, including reproducible research tools and processes, data exploration and visualization, and statistical modeling.
• A deep understanding of statistical methods and practices, including experimentation, advanced regression and probabilistic modeling.
• Able to choose machine learning models, train and tune them with good practices, extract insights, and suggest opportunities to productionize them.
• Outstanding communications skills, including the ability to speak clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences, present insights to groups, and to write clear, concise research results and summaries.
• Able to keep complex projects on track and focused on value-creation.
• 5+ years of industry experience on an insights-focused data science team.

Extra Credit For:

• Experience with Ed-Tech or e-commerce marketplaces
• Experience with Search and Recommendations systems
• Open source contributor or active in your professional community

Benefits & Perks:

At TpT, we believe the positive experience of employees is essential to growth, both individually and collectively. To achieve our mission of ‘Empowering Educators to Teach at Their Best,’ we must also empower the members of our TpT Team to work at their best. To that end, two of our core company values are “We Learn and Grow Together” and “We Enjoy the Journey.” We’ve committed to these values and to our employees through investing in added benefits and perks:

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits
• Free Telemedicine Membership - 24/7 access to trusted medical advisors 
• Generous PTO and Wellness Days
• 5 Week “Recharge Leave” after 5 Years, to refresh and celebrate the impact you’ve had at TpT
• Generous Parental Leave (for new parents) for time to adjust to parenthood, plus additional six weeks for the birth parent
• Onsite Mother’s Room
• ‘Employee Resource Groups’ (ERGs) to promote employee inclusivity and belonging
• Engineering Learning Fridays (ELF), to provide a space each week for Engineering teams to collaborate and learn from each other
• ‘Professional Development’ Stipend, to support the professional growth of employees (including - but not limited to - subscriptions, books, lectures, etc.)
• Annual Company Events (Camp TpT, Field Day, Hackathons, Holiday Party, Summer Picnic, Classroom Visits, etc.)

Here at TpT we value Diversity & Inclusion and encourage people to bring their most authentic selves to work.  We cultivate an environment where people are recognized and celebrated for their individuality.

Any TpT applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the interview process should contact the TpT People Ops Team (accommodations@teacherspayteachers.com) to make the need for an accommodation known.