Data Scientist — AI-Driven Marketing Analytics

centerfield; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) company match

Office in Playa Vista, CA

Team outings

Job summary

Centerfield in Playa Vista, CA is seeking a Data Scientist with 2+ years of experience to turn complex data into models, insights, and recommendations that improve business performance. You’ll tackle problems around customer behavior, marketing effectiveness, and forecasting in collaboration with data engineers and ML engineers.

This role blends strong statistics and machine learning with applying AI and LLMs to practical business problems, delivering actionable results for cross-functional

Qualifications

• 2+ years of data science experience applying statistics and ML to business problems.
• Strong SQL and Python proficiency for data prep, analysis, modeling.
• Solid foundation in regression, classification, clustering, and hypothesis testing.
• Experience with feature engineering, model validation, and evaluation metrics.
• Ability to work with AI and LLMs and evaluate outputs.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches.
• Attention to data quality, reproducibility, and version control.
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define business problems with marketing, sales, and operations, establish success metrics, and identify opportunities to improve conversion, revenue, and efficiency.
• Explore and combine data from multiple sources using SQL and Python; investigate data quality issues, develop features, and document assumptions.
• Build and evaluate predictive models for propensity, lifetime value, segmentation, and forecasting.
• Apply statistical analysis and experimentation to understand performance drivers.
• Develop reusable analytical workflows and automate recurring analyses.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate models into business workflows and monitor performance.
• Apply AI and LLMs to use cases such as extracting insights from unstructured data and supporting analytical workflows, evaluating output quality and cost.
• Present findings to technical and nontechnical audiences, explain trade-offs, and recommend next steps.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistics

Machine Learning

Data Visualization

Communication

Version Control

Prompting/LLMs

Problem Solving

Tools

BigQuery

GCP

Python (pandas/numpy)

Job description

Centerfield in Playa Vista, CA is seeking a Data Scientist with 2+ years of experience to turn complex data into models, insights, and recommendations that improve business performance. You’ll tackle problems around customer behavior, marketing effectiveness, and forecasting in collaboration with data engineers and ML engineers.

This role blends strong statistics and machine learning with applying AI and LLMs to practical business problems, delivering actionable results for cross-functional