Remote Data Scientist - Drive Africa's Cashless Future

Wave HQ; United States; Remoto; USD 131.000 - 236.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Subsidized health insurance for you &/

6 months parental leave

Flexible vacation 30-40 days

Charitable donation matching $10,000

Remote coworking stipend $1,200

Descrizione del lavoro

WaveHQ is hiring a Data Scientist for a fully remote role. You’ll work with product and operations across markets in Africa and other regions, building ML models, ML-driven insights, and analytics to optimize promotions and field operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data science, strong Python/SQL skills, and excellent communication. Travel to operating markets is required occasionally; salary is transparent with equity offered.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field or higher.
• 5+ years in data science, ML or technical analytics.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL and data visualization.
• Experience with ML, causal inference, modeling or AB testing.

Mansioni

• Be embedded closely with product and operations teams.
• Generate insights using customer, merchant and internal data with statistics and ML.
• Design, implement and analyze optimizations for operations and promos to scale.
• Build data-driven heuristics and ML models to improve outcomes.
• Take ownership of the analytics process from scoping to communicating findings.

Conoscenze

Python

SQL

Data visualization

Machine learning

Causal inference

Statistical modeling

A/B testing

Communication

Presentation

English fluency

French (nice to have)

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field

Master’s or PhD is a plus

Descrizione del lavoro

WaveHQ is hiring a Data Scientist for a fully remote role. You’ll work with product and operations across markets in Africa and other regions, building ML models, ML-driven insights, and analytics to optimize promotions and field operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data science, strong Python/SQL skills, and excellent communication. Travel to operating markets is required occasionally; salary is transparent with equity offered.