Staff Data Scientist - Core Data & Client Insights (Hybrid, Denver)

Ibotta; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Ibotta seeks a Staff Data Scientist, Client Data & Measurement, to build the foundations of data science across the company. You will own greenfield opportunities, collaborate with stakeholders and data engineers, and craft models that impact multiple business domains.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and establishing best practices while advancing data-driven decision making. This hybrid Denver position requires three in-office days per week and US residency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data science or ML roles with impact.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Analytics or related field.
• Strong data storytelling and decision-making using data.
• Active learning mindset with continued development in data science and ML.
• Expert-level knowledge of ML algorithms and statistical methods.
• Expert-level Python and/or R, with Spark/PySpark a strong plus.
• Strong statistical analysis, experimental design, and time series analysis is a plus.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with database manipulation, query languages, and graph data schemas.
• Experience handling data to enable feature engineering within data lakes, distributed systems and data streams.
• Experience in MLOps is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide ownership of one or more core business domains within Ibotta.
• Establish and lead best practices for the data science team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and data engineers to define and prepare data for analysis and modeling.
• Analyze large, novel datasets to derive actionable insights for model development and consumer behavior.
• Create customized views of large datasets to support decision-making.
• Inform experimental design to address business challenges and opportunities.
• Build models using a range of ML techniques and measure model performance.
• Harden data pipelines and models for production deployment and monitoring.
• Mentor and educate other teams across the company.
• Uphold Ibotta’s Core Values of Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency.

Skills

Python

R

Spark / PySpark

SQL / Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Analytics

Tools

Spark

Job description

Ibotta seeks a Staff Data Scientist, Client Data & Measurement, to build the foundations of data science across the company. You will own greenfield opportunities, collaborate with stakeholders and data engineers, and craft models that impact multiple business domains.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and establishing best practices while advancing data-driven decision making. This hybrid Denver position requires three in-office days per week and US residency.