Powered by an enterprise-grade AI platform, Persado generates “cognitive content” that inspires action at scale while delivering unique insight into rational and emotional triggers that drive engagement. Using Persado, leading brands like Citi, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Staples, and Verizon Wireless have seen an average uplift of 49.5% in conversions across their advertising and marketing campaigns, realizing over $1B in incremental revenue to date.
As the pioneers of cognitive content, Persado team members are courageous and typically characterized by an unrelenting drive to succeed: in their individual careers, on behalf of the company and its groundbreaking work, and for its impressively innovative customers.
Persado is looking for a Data Scientist based out of Athens to support the Data Science team. You will be responsible for maintaining and expanding Persado’s new strategic product. The ideal candidate will adapt quickly and take ownership of his/her work, will possess expert-level knowledge of a wide variety of data science tasks and solution techniques and be able to bring more ideas to prototype and production.
Responsibilities
- Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process in large and complex datasets
- Maintain and build new predictive models by applying Machine Learning algorithms
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of the predictive models
- Report the key findings internally by writing brief and explanatory reports helping the team to take decisions
- Design Reporting Templates using advanced data visualization techniques
- Design experiments and analyze them statistically
Qualifications
- A minimum of a BSc degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering or related field
- 2+ years of working experience involving quantitative Data Analysis
- In-depth understanding of trade-offs between different methods and operation domains, hands-on familiarity on statistical modelling, regression analysis, classification, clustering,
- information extraction
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft office suite, especially Microsoft Excel
- Strong experience in at least one data analytics language like R (dplyr, data.table, ggplot2, tidyr, caret etc) or Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn etc)
- Experience in SQL and relational databases
- Experience in working with Big Data technologies (Hadoop, NoSql databases) will be considered a plus
- Experience of Spark, Hive and H2O is a plus
- Experience in Text Mining is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal skills in English
Skills
- Excited about working in a lean start up environment
- Enthusiastic, professional and highly pro-active
- Extremely organized with fantastic attention to detail
- Thrives on finding intelligent solutions to ambiguous problems
- Eager to dive in and learn in a fast-paced environment
- Dependable and reliable
- Collaborative team player with the ability to shift gears quickly and efficiently
Benefits
- Competitive salary and bonus plans
- Fun Workplace with great office benefits
- All the computer gear you need to improve your productivity
- Work-life flexibility – we value your contributions above all