Senior Data Scientist
We are thrilled to announce Handshake’s $200M Series F funding round. At Handshake, we believe that a career opportunity shouldn’t be determined by who you know or what you’ve done. It’s about what you can - and will - do. Your future, not your past. Our Series F fundraise and new valuation of $3.5B will fuel our next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.
Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. Handshake’s community includes 20 million students and young alumni around the world from 1,400 educational institutions, including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 650,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, nonprofits, and even sports teams like the LA Dodgers. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London and teammates working globally.
Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.
If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.
Your Impact
At the heart of Handshake product development is an experimentation-driven culture led by data scientists and engineers. This is a high-impact position where you will not only influence product strategy and decisions affecting millions of students and young alumni but also build the very products that democratize opportunity by enabling those users to find great jobs. We know that connecting students with jobs and employers can be so much more than string matching buzzwords in resumes and job descriptions. If you want to make a mark on both our organization and the job search experience for millions of students while growing as a data science leader, then this role is for you.
Your Role
Develop the algorithms and data pipelines that connect users across the Handshake marketplace, from students looking for their first jobs and internships to employers sourcing candidates for high-priority roles.
Find the signal in the noise and turn massive datasets into rich, relevance-enabling feature sets. Employ Natural Language Processing and feature engineering techniques to turn relatively unstructured data sources like job descriptions into “matchable” hiring criteria.
Provide technical leadership to a growing team of curious and highly motivated data scientists.
Be a tactful and effective partner to product managers; help design and analyze experiments and proactive analyses that drive key product decisions and unlock invaluable insights.
Be an ambassador for data-driven product development at Handshake. Present your research, including metric development and measurement methodologies to all levels of the company, clearly and concisely.
Your Experience:
Experience building, implementing, and iterating on data and/or machine learning powered products and/or conducting relevant academic research on large data sets.
Knowledge of machine learning practices with a focus on topics such as search and relevance, recommender systems, natural language processing, and/or Data Science concepts related to e-commerce (e.g. lifetime value, net incremental revenue, churn)
Experience working directly with cross-functional teams such as leadership, product management, engineering, and design
Experience using modern analytics tools such as Python, R, Spark, BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.
Ability to start, own and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
Excellent communication skills — ability to succinctly communicate results and tell compelling stories with data to any audience (e.g. presenting findings and deep-dives to senior leadership)
Bonus Areas of Expertise:
Experience working on small, scrappy, and growing data science teams
Knowledge of Google Cloud technologies and Airflow
Mentorship of both data scientists and would-be data science partners
Developing and deploying production-quality machine learning pipelines and models
Compensation Range:
$166,725 - $230,270
For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Benefits:At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
- Hub-Based Remote Work: Handshakers can enjoy the flexibility of remote work whilst ensuring in-person collaboration, and team experiences remain possible.
- Financial Management with Origin: We provide you with a professional financial planner via Origin to gain a better understanding of making the most of your compensation, equity, benefits, and perks.
- Paid Parental Leave: All new parents at Handshake (both birth and non-birth giving) are encouraged to take time to focus on their growing family and are eligible for paid family leave. US Handshakers are provided up to 16 weeks of paid family leave for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents.
- Mental Health Assistance: We are here to support you in every step of your mental health journey; our benefits include Employee Assistance Programs that offer counseling support for those eligible.
- Home Office Stipend: Handshake offers $500/£360 for you to spend on setting up a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
- Learning: Learning & Development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
- Team Bonding: Regularly scheduled virtual company-wide and team events! Once it’s safe, we’ll provide meaningful connection points throughout the year for Handshakers to build community and meet teammates in person.
- Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
(US Handshakers)
- 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future. Launching Spring 2022, Handshake will offer a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.
- Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage.
- 2022 Time Off: All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. We also offer 8 standardized holidays, 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off, and 2 one-week periods of Collective Time Off (7/4-7/8/2022) and (12/26-12/30/2022).
(UK Handshakers)
- Pension: Handshake matches 3% of your salary towards your pension scheme.
- Healthcare: Handshake's comprehensive healthcare policy covers 100% of employee premiums & 100% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 2022 Time Off: Up to 25 days of vacation to encourage people to reset, recharge, and refresh, in addition to 8 bank holidays throughout the year.
Benefits above apply to employees in full-time positions.
Looking for more? Explore our comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.
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