Senior Data Scientist

Tracksuit; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary review twice annually

Employee Share Option Program

Progressive health and wellness benefits

Flexible working arrangements

$1000 personal learning and development budget

Job summary

A leading data-driven startup in Auckland is seeking a Senior Data Scientist. You will be crucial in scaling survey operations to support brand tracking initiatives. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience, a deep understanding of statistics, and strong skills in SQL, Python, and R. This role offers competitive compensation and a supportive and flexible work culture, making Tracksuit a great place to enhance your career while contributing to significant projects.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience as a Data Scientist.
• Strong fluency in SQL and scripting languages, such as Python and R.
• Experience with data quality improvements, especially in surveying.

Responsibilities

• Scale survey operations to fortify Tracksuit's product.
• Design sampling methods and integrate with survey panels.
• Analyze experiments to enhance survey engagement.

Skills

Data science capabilities

Deep understanding of statistics

Fluent in SQL

Python programming

R programming

Data leadership skills

Collaboration

Creativity in problem-solving

Job description

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace - a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. At Tracksuit we consider a unique perspective, diverse experience and a growth mindset to be of greater value than ticking every box on an JD. If you think you have what it takes but don’t have the exact experience we’ve set out, please still get in touch and apply. We’d love to chat! Check us out here: www.gotracksuit.com 🙌

At Tracksuit, we provide beautiful, radically affordable, always-on brand tracking which is easy to use compared to traditional methods. We recognise that sounds like a ton of buzzwords for marketers, so what it really means is that we did over 50,000 surveys last month to find out what real humans think and feel about the world’s best brands and their competitors.

Data is Tracksuit’s moat: it’s the core of our product and integral to everything we do. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to amplify the value of our data and help us become the common language to measure, understand and communicate the value of brand building.

As our Senior Data Scientist, you’ll be a critical part of our survey team, working with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and survey experts to scale our survey operation while maintaining world-class data quality.

We think this role is exciting because:

• You’ll be working on some of the most impactful projects in the company: You’ll be applying your data skills to solve problems at the heart of our business model, directly driving our ability to scale and launch new products
• You get to innovate: You’ll have license to run experiments, imagine surveying from first principles, and implement solutions with a product team to build the world’s best survey engine
• Your work is directly tied to business outcomes: As you shape the trajectory of Tracksuit, you’ll be able to directly measure your impact and demonstrate your contribution to the business
• We don’t have a roadmap dictated to us: You’ll have high-level business goals and outcomes, but it’s up to you to define the problems and solutions
• We’re backed by product-legend Lenny Rachitsky: Founder of Lenny’s Podcast and Lenny’s Newsletter. In Lenny’s words: “Across the thousands of startup decks I've looked at, I've almost never seen a growth trajectory like the growth Tracksuit has see

What are we looking for? We’re looking for a “Full Stack” Data Scientist that:

• Has 4+ years experience as a Data Scientist
• Has strong data science capabilities: Deep understanding of statistics, including both frequentist and Bayesian approaches. Experience with measuring and improving data quality, especially in surveying. Strong fluency in SQL and in scripting languages such as Python and R
• (Nice to have) Experience with operational research, experimentation, or classical machine learning
• Has data leadership, product, and commercial skills: Entrepreneurial. You’re focused on having an impact on business results and thrive when navigating new domains. Able to think creatively, both statistically and commercially, to solve business problems. Drives momentum, making trade-offs between statistics and the business, and prioritising work independently. Able to communicate the impact of your work with customers and less technical partners
• Is kind: This is such a collaborative role that we want a great, kind human

As our Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for scaling our survey operations: the heart of the Tracksuit product. This may involve:

• Designing how we sample and integrate with new survey panels
• Running and analysing experiments to improve survey engagement
• Building our survey data quality monitoring system
• Exploring alternative data sources to complement our survey metrics
• Working closely with product managers, designers, and developers to guide the implementation of all of the above
• Applying diverse data science skillsets such as survey analytics, statistics, machine learning and generative AI to our proprietary data to solve business problems

Why join us at Tracksuit?

As one of Australasia's fastest growing startups, we've hand-picked a world-class team of kind, ambitious, generous, and smart humans. You’ll get to join and experience life at one the fastest-growing startup in New Zealand & Australia while we are still in hyper growth phase.

We’re a tight-knit, supportive, and ambitious team, driven to empower companies to use brand to drive success. Our culture thrives on complete transparency, trust, learning, and constant development and improvement.

Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive market rate remuneration, which is reviewed twice annually. Our radically transparent compensation policy ensures that salaries are fair across the entire team.
• Employee Share Option Program (ESOP): So that everyone on the team has a share in Tracksuit’s success.
• Progressive health and wellness benefits: Including an annual wellness bonus, access to a premium EAP platform, and 6 weeks of paid annual leave.
• Generous parental benefits: 12 weeks’ paid parental leave for either caregiver, additional sick leave for IVF, gradual return to work.
• A $1000 personal L&D budget for each Trackstar, plus additional growth opportunities including mentorships, speaking engagements, and travel.
• Flexible working: We have beautiful offices in Auckland, Sydney, London, and New York. We are office first but offer flexibility day to day.

Our Accolades

• Mumbrella Marketing Company of the Year
• HRD Employer of Choice <200 Staff 2024
• NZ Hi Tech Awards, Emerging Company of the Year 2024
• AFR Best Place to Work Media and Marketing (4th place) 2024

Most importantly, when you join, you’ll receive an epic Tracksuit which reflects our vibe. We are built for speed and comfort, we're fun and informal, and we're practical and ready for anything.

🐾 FYI - We’re pet-friendly in principle and practice - with the occasional four-legged visitor adding to the charm, not the chaos.

Location and flexibility: This role is based in Auckland, NZ & requires you to work from our vibrant office space. With flexibility to work from home, we trust you to choose the balance that empowers you & your team to achieve their goals. We may also be open to Australian applicants and this person working from our Sydney office.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

We practice transparent compensation at Tracksuit, which means we put a real focus on fair compensation for our people and their roles. We run comprehensive full-cycle comp reviews annually, as well as rolling promotions when you've levelled up. Your salary is supplemented with our best-in-class benefits package, as well as generous ESOP.