Data Scientist III

GitHub; Remote; USD 107,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development platform is seeking a Data Scientist III to enhance forecasting models and provide insights that align with business needs. The ideal candidate will possess expertise in data analysis, machine learning principles, and strong programming skills, particularly in Python and SQL. They will work collaboratively with various teams and maintain a focus on leveraging data for operational excellence while working remotely across the United States.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning opportunities

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in data science like managing data and applying statistical techniques.
• Expertise in building forecasting models and translating them into recommendations.
• Experience working in support operations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify and acquire data for analysis while adhering to privacy policies.
• Build and maintain forecasting models aligned with service-level goals.
• Deliver insights via visualizations and dashboards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to refine forecasting methodologies.

Skills

Strong proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools

Excellent problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Experience with forecasting models

Experience in Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Data Science or related field

Master's Degree in Data Science or related field

Doctorate Degree in Data Science or related field

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Excel

MySQL

Job description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

As a Data Scientist III, you will help build industry-leading solutions that empower GitHub’s Enterprise and Developer customers worldwide. The ideal candidate will leverage advanced data science and business acumen to address operational and product challenges, with a focus on support forecasting, capacity planning, product adoption, and product health. Drives the development and refinement of predictive models to forecast support ticket volume, workload trends and resource needs. Consider the impact of AI and automation in forecasting models. Aligns staffing and scheduling with demand, balances workloads across teams, and provides actionable insights to the business stakeholders to facilitate the right business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Identify and acquire data necessary for analysis, perform transformation and exploration, while adhering to GitHub's privacy policies.
• Build, maintain, and refine forecasting models for the business trends and business resource needs. Translate forecasts into actionable staffing and scheduling recommendations aligned with service-level goals.
• Deliver forward-looking insights to highlight risks and enable proactive action.
• Present findings and recommendations through visualizations, dashboards and PowerBI reports to support decision making for strategic and operational audiences.
• Collaborate with Support Leadership, Analytics, and cross-functional partners to align on forecasting assumptions, methodologies, and resource planning priorities and drive operational excellence through careful forecasting, proactive monitoring, and diagnostics.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering team to consider upcoming AI automations and their impact on support capacity needs.
• Collaborate with others to perform data science experiments using established methodologies and statistics, identifying appropriate tools and techniques.
• Leverage broad and deep knowledge of modeling techniques for forecasting, and scaling workforce. Consider and account for risks of data leakage, bias/variance tradeoff, and methodological limitations.
• Write efficient, readable and extensible code that spans multiple features/solutions, adhering to software engineering concepts and practices.
• Build documentation for knowledge transfer and deployment of predictive analytic models.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in data science (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques), forecasting, capacity planning, or workforce analytics or related field
  • OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in data science (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques) or related field
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL, Excel).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and present insights with clarity.
• Experience building forecasting models and translating outputs into actionable recommendations.
• Forecasting in support operations experience.
• Experience in Python, MySQL or similar.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $107,700.00 - USD $285,900.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms. Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

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