VirginPulse | Associate Data Scientist | Remote | United States | BigDataKB.com | 2023-01-26

At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.

Responsibilities:

You are a Data Scientist who will hit the ground running to support the organization’s efforts to maintain leadership in the employee health engagement SaaS industry. You have a strong statistical and modeling skill set, as well as the technical tools to complete projects end to end. This role will be responsible for accessing and building datasets, designing and conducting analysis, and creating and delivering data visualizations and reports. The incumbent will be able to interpret findings, clearly communicate results, and make recommendations to internal and external stakeholders. We are looking for someone who is self-directed and thrives working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, in which expectations are high both for the quality and speed of work. A successful candidate will have a hunger for continuous learning, a desire to grow and lead, and strong interpersonal relationship skills.

In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:

• Design, conduct and manage new analytical projects, starting with project planning, hypothesis development and data gathering, then to analysis and modeling, and through to communications and recommendations
• Leverage existing studies, literature, and analyses into current research and analysis projects
• Write Python, R and SQL programs to access, clean, and transform required data prior to analysis and reporting
• Experience in different statistical methodologies such as propensity score matching and difference in differences analysis
• Troubleshoot and perform data audits to ensure and improve data integrity; investigate and resolve data discrepancies
• Develop and deliver analysis results using various visualization and presentation software/tools, such as R/Toolkit, Tableau, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, etc.
• Consult to and collaborate with Product, Reporting, Analytics and Account Management team members to ensure appropriate data is analyzed and that results are provided in a format consistent with standard and customized client reporting services
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis using varied analytical tools and techniques, including advanced statistics
• Support Sales, Marketing, and Client Success staff with Virgin Pulse clients and prospects by directly communicating on data and analytics processes and projects, as well as the results of analyses
• Work with departmental processes, projects and programs using Smartsheet, MS and Atlassian toolsets to keep projects and milestones on schedule, our collaborative and internal work organized as well as externally facing documentation comprehensive, updated, and accessible

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Qualifications:

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

• A bachelor’s degree in statistics, computer science, economics, or related field; further advanced degree is a plus
• A minimum of two years of work experience in a similar path, history of increasing responsibilities a plus;
• Hands-on experience with SAS
• Employee health management/health engagement industry preferred
• Advanced knowledge and recent hands-on experiences in SQL databases
• Extensive experience coding in either R or Python, R preferred
• Knowledge of data visualization tools preferred (i.e., Tableau, R: Shiny, ggplot2)
• Experience with producing and delivering results using varied media (i.e., multiple MS office formats, dashboards/visualization tools)
• Experience in managing medium and large-scale analytics projects from end to end
• Experience with clinical/medical data and work in employee health management/health engagement industry preferred
• Comfort working in a global environment with remote teams

You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:

• Strong collaboration, process, and project management skills
• Strong analytical ability, with an emphasis on quantitative analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and multiple projects simultaneously
• Aptitude to learn new technologies and troubleshoot complex problems independently
• Creative energy, self-starter, works equally well independently and collaboratively
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changes in priority quickly and seamlessly
• Strong organizing and coordination of work products, documents, and content for publication and distribution
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and process ad-hoc requests
• Experience in providing consultative guidance and contributing to the growth and development of others

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive culture and cutting-edge technology and services. Virgin Pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice. To that end, we make a particular effort to recruit candidates from minoritized backgrounds to apply for open positions.

In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges from [x to x]. Note that salary may vary based on location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for [x%] target bonus/variable compensation as well as health, dental, vision, mental health and other benefits.