Applied Scientist

Linked In is the worlds largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. Were also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture thats built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed.

Linked In's Data Science team leverages big data to empower business decisions and deliver data-driven insights, metrics, and tools in order to drive member engagement, business growth, and monetization efforts. With over 1 billion members around the world, a focus on great user experience, and a mix of B2B and B2C programs, a career at Linked In offers countless ways for an ambitious data scientist to have an impact.

We are now looking for a talented and driven individual to accelerate our efforts and be a major part of our data-centric culture. It is expected that this person understands experimentation and/or machine learning techniques to be able to implement from scratch and have the ability to extend and enhance these techniques to specific applications like business problems. Successful candidates will exhibit technical acumen on inference and algorithms, and the business savviness to use these technical skills to drive better business decision-making.

At Linked In, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of high-performing analytics, data science professionals, and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities and develop algorithms and methodologies to address them.
• Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data.
• Conduct in-depth and rigorous causal analysis and develop causal methodology and machine learning models to drive member value and customer success.
• Develop methodologies to enhance Linked In's product and platform capabilities.
• Engage with technology partners to build, prototype and validate scalable tools/applications end to end (backend, frontend, data) for converting data to insights.
• Promote and enable adoption of technical advances in Data Science; elevate the art of Data Science practice at Linked In.
• Improve Linked In's ability to measure and credibly speak to labor market trends and other economic phenomena.
• Initiate and drive projects to completion independently.
• Act as a thought partner to senior leaders to prioritize/scope projects, provide recommendations and evangelize data-driven business decisions in support of strategic goals.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to initiate, lead or contribute to large-scale/complex strategic projects for team, department, and company.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design as well as lead code/design reviews.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline:
  Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Informatics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics, etc.
• 5+ years of industry or relevant academia experience
• Background in at least one programming language (eg. R, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
• Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package, (eg. R, Python)

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry or relevant academia experience
• MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline:
  Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Informatics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics, etc.

Suggested Skills

• Research

You will Benefit from our Culture

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