Senior Data Scientist - 40h/week, 12+ months project - Amsterdam (Hybrid)

Job Summary
This position works within a data science team, and with stakeholders throughout the company, to generate understanding, strategy and guide key decision making based on data. They spend their time doing practical data science and machine learning work to transform complex data sets into pragmatic insights which they provide through skilled story-telling. They are expected to be a unique hybrid of data hackers, business analysts, communicators and mentors that maintain a strong customer focus and values pragmatism over perfection.

Key Responsibilities
Transform large, complex datasets into pragmatic, actionable insights
Identify, source and organize data required for the solution and prepare it in a way that makes it fit for use
Uses data visualization skills and storytelling to drive actions from stakeholders
Design and interpret quantitative experiments to objectively guide key business decision making
Convey complex analysis results clearly and with conviction to all levels of stakeholders
Leverage Data Science and Machine Learning for impact while learning to incorporate scalability, reproducibility and long term orientation in their work.

Requirements of special knowledge/skills
6+ years of experience within Data Science domain 
Experience solving real problems using data mining techniques and with statistical rigor
Strong technical skills in machine learning, neural networks, causal inference, statistics, experimentation
Strong working knowledge of SQL, Python, Spark, Git, Airflow
Strong knowledge of data management (engineering, data pipelines, workflows)
Strong knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of different types of data analysis and/or data science modeling
Strong focus on generating and measuring impact, data visualization and storytelling skills
Experience with attribution modeling a plus
Experience of working in a digital/product and/or marketplace organization a plus

Pracical info:
Freelance/payroll contract; 40h/week, 12 months contract with extention
Based in Amsterdam (2 days on site)

In case you are interested in the role, please share you CV and details via the form below. In case any questions arise, refer to Julia Shchegoleva.