Remote Junior Data Scientist: Analytics & Modeling

Talanto; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Extended Holiday break (Winter)

Work from anywhere options*

100% paid parental leave

401(k) matching

Sponsored life insurance

Short Term Disability insurance and追加

Job summary

Talanto in the United States is hiring a Junior Data Scientist who loves solving problems with data and has strong math, logic, and communication skills. You’ll support data processing, model updates, and analytics reporting while learning advanced techniques that will grow your impact over time.

You’ll collaborate with teams across Engineering, Reporting, Product, Paid Media, and Data Science, working with exciting clients in e-commerce, retail, and entertainment.

Qualifications

• Intermediate programming in R or Python for data cleaning, data modeling, pipeline development, API calls, and related tasks.
• Experience with statistical modeling, machine learning techniques, and LLMs.
• Intermediate SQL skills, including window functions, stored procedures, views, triggers, unions, CTEs, subqueries, and debugging.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets.
• Experience with at least one BI platform (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, etc.) with the ability to learn others; Looker preferred.
• Experience or familiarity with version control tools such as Git or Bitbucket.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to balance competing client requests and work with complex datasets while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Intermediate to advanced competency in statistics, probability, and linear algebra.
• Strong communication skills, including experience creating and delivering presentations and executive summaries.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills—the ability to analyze numbers, trends, and data to form meaningful insights.
• Interest or passion for marketing analytics and/or a personal project portfolio.
• Associate’s degree, bootcamp certification, or practical work experience in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Economics, Engineering, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Learning to transform, improve, and integrate data according to business requirements.
• Planning and scoping end-to-end data analysis projects by identifying the business problem and selecting appropriate investigative tests and solutions.
• Using SQL and BigQuery to combine and prepare datasets from multiple sources.
• Delivering data in a clear, useful, and visually appealing way to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintaining existing media-mix models through directed retrains and reporting on performance changes.
• Organizing and collecting results from media-mix models, incrementality tests, clean rooms, and related analyses to support the company’s culture of learning.
• Conducting guided marketing analyses to support client and internal needs.
• Supporting presentations through data pulls, ad-hoc analyses, and slide creation.
• Learning to automate data gathering, blending, and transformation processes.
• Collaborating across Engineering, Reporting, Product, Paid Media, and Data Science teams to understand and support client needs.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Statistics

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Associate’s degree or bootcamp certification

Bachelor’s degree or higher (Nice to Have)

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Git

Bitbucket

Job description

Talanto in the United States is hiring a Junior Data Scientist who loves solving problems with data and has strong math, logic, and communication skills. You’ll support data processing, model updates, and analytics reporting while learning advanced techniques that will grow your impact over time.

You’ll collaborate with teams across Engineering, Reporting, Product, Paid Media, and Data Science, working with exciting clients in e-commerce, retail, and entertainment.