Senior Data Scientist

Up Closets of North Cincinnati; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial technology company is seeking a Data Scientist to join their dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects that drive data-informed decision-making across various business functions. You'll collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams to uncover actionable insights and build a data-driven culture. With a focus on analytics applied to product development, you'll help shape the future of the company while enhancing user experiences and business strategies. If you have a passion for data and a desire to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Equity (stock options)

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible work environment

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience analyzing large datasets and driving impact.
• Fluency in SQL and statistical programming languages like Python or R.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to derive data insights and inform decisions.
• Define metrics that guide tactical decisions and overall strategy.

Skills

Data Analysis

SQL

Python

Machine Learning

A/B Testing

Statistical Modeling

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Master's Degree in Data Science or Statistics

Tools

DBT

Data Visualization Tools

Job description

San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States

At Mercury, we’re looking to seed our Data Science team with candidates who can use their background in analytics applied with product development to accelerate the adoption of Mercury. In this role, you’ll be responsible for proactively deriving data insights and partnering with engineering, marketing, design, onboarding, and other product business teams to inform how we invest in and build Mercury’s future. You’ll build a data-informed culture across Mercury so that we can all determine what’s happening, react quickly, and invest intelligently. You will develop various skills as a full-stack Data Scientist working on projects end-to-end and build deep domain expertise in the intersection of Data Science and Product.

Here are some things you’ll do on the job:

• Partner with Product stakeholders and other cross-functional teams to identify impactful business questions, conduct deep-dive analysis, translate data insights into actionable recommendations, and communicate findings to audiences at all levels to inform data-driven decisions.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform tactical decisions and overall strategy for teams that allow us to monitor the health of our products.
• Educate teams on how to best use data and define best practices for making decisions on prioritization, experimentation, data models, and more.
• Use a variety of exploratory, data visualization, and statistical techniques to uncover actionable insights, including A/B testing, cohort analysis, regression modeling, trend analysis, user segmentation, and machine learning.
• Collaborate with other Data Scientists and Data Engineers to build and improve data pipelines, tools, and infrastructure to streamline data collection, processing, and analysis workflows, and ensure the integrity, reliability, and security of data assets.
• Influence engineering, design, and business teams to implement data-based recommendations that will improve entrepreneurs’ lives and generate revenue for Mercury.

You should:

• Have 5+ years of experience working with and analyzing large datasets to solve problems and drive impact.
• Have fluency in SQL, and other statistical programming languages (e.g., Python, R, etc.).
• Have experience building scalable data pipelines and ETL processes with DBT and understand different database structures.
• Have the ability to proactively ask questions, turn them into analyses, and make your case to various stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Be super organized and communicative. You will need to prioritize and manage projects to maximize impact, supporting multiple stakeholders with varying quantitative skill levels.
• Be familiar with analytical models/analysis used to support product teams.

About the Teams:

Experiences: At Mercury, we’re looking to seed our team with candidates who can use their background in analytics applied with product development to accelerate the adoption of Mercury. In this role, you’ll be responsible for proactively deriving data insights and partnering with the Experiences org to inform how we invest in and build our new user experience to grow the number of businesses and ensure their continued success on Mercury.

Finance: We are looking for a Data Scientist to partner with our Finance team to develop robust forecasts and drive data-based decision-making. In this role, you will leverage advanced analytics and predictive modeling techniques to analyze large data sets, identify trends, and generate insights that inform product roadmaps and financial planning. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders in Product to refine forecasting processes, improve accuracy, and help shape company strategy through data-driven recommendations.

Banking: At Mercury, we’re looking for candidates who can leverage their analytics expertise to support and strengthen our Banking products. In this role, you’ll proactively derive data insights, build reporting to monitor the health of our banking partnerships, and partner with the Banking product and operations teams to inform decisions that enhance product stability, reliability, and customer experience. You’ll also play a key role in evangelizing banking health metrics across the company to drive alignment and awareness.

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

• US employees (any location): $173,600 - 204,200 USD
• Canadian employees (any location): CAD 158,000 - 185,800

Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.