Applied AI Data Scientist - Private Equity Value Creation

Orr Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Orr Search has partnered with a leading private equity firm seeking a hands-on Data Scientist to drive AI-enabled value creation across portfolio companies. You’ll work directly with portfolio teams to clean and analyze workforce, financial, and operational data, delivering actionable insights that inform investment decisions.

You’ll build scalable models, translate findings into repeatable frameworks, and partner with engineers to move models from notebooks to production while presenting to

Qualifications

• 2–3 years hands-on analytics experience in strategy consulting or equivalent applied data science role.
• Strong quantitative grounding: statistics, forecasting, ML basics.
• Comfort with presenting to senior stakeholders and running analyses end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Pull and clean workforce, financial, and operational data from portfolio companies.
• Build and iterate quantitative models to quantify AI-driven value opportunities.
• Turn analyses into reusable frameworks across multiple portfolio companies.
• Present findings to investment committees and leadership; collaborate with engineers to productionize models.

Skills

Python

SQL

Analytical Modeling

Data Wrangling

Job description

Orr Search has partnered with a leading private equity firm seeking a hands-on Data Scientist to drive AI-enabled value creation across portfolio companies. You’ll work directly with portfolio teams to clean and analyze workforce, financial, and operational data, delivering actionable insights that inform investment decisions.

You’ll build scalable models, translate findings into repeatable frameworks, and partner with engineers to move models from notebooks to production while presenting to