Principal Data Scientist

  • $180k-$200k
  • Remote - United States

Remote

Data

Principal

Job description

Who we are:

Field Nation brings companies and service professionals together through an integrated, easy-to-use platform. We support businesses looking to grow their service offerings while also empowering technicians to leverage their skills on their own terms. Our mission is to help the service delivery industry do great work, and we live that mission by doing great work for the companies and service professionals that depend on us.

Why this role is important to Field Nation:

The Principal Product Data Scientist role will be embedded in the product organization with an initial focus on improving quality in the marketplace. This will include optimizing in-product reputation signals, developing a quality supply coverage framework, enhancing a network quality dashboard and conducting analysis that supports improved decision making.  As the only data scientist, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of Product Data Science at Field Nation. This role reports to the Chief Product Officer.

What you’ll get to do:

  • Operationalize + own the Marketplace Supply Coverage Framework to identify quality supply gaps, recommend solutions and measure the impact of coverage initiatives.
  • Monitor + optimizeProvider Quality Reputation Signals to ensure the metrics are fair, accurate, and improve buyer outcomes when utilized.
  • Enhance the Network Quality Dashboard to track key metrics, balance clarity with depth, and generate actionable insights into the root causes of quality issues.
  • Utilize data to influence the product roadmap and drive a measurable reduction in negative buyer outcomes.
  • Conduct ad hoc analysis to identify opportunities and quantify the impact of initiatives across the Product organization.
  • Establish a data-driven product development culture by defining, tracking, and operationalizing feature, product, and company-level metrics.
  • Develop an experimentation program that enables measuring the success of new features through A/B testing.

You might be a good fit if you have:

  • Experience:  8+ years in a Data Science or Product Analytics role, marketplace experience as well as experience building data solutions in product experiences strongly preferred.
  • Analytical Skills: You have the skills to turn raw complex data into insights.
  • Technical Skills: Advanced SQL skills and intermediate skills in a scripting language (R or Python).
  • Ownership: Proactively takes ownership over success of initiatives from ideation to delivery to achieve the desired impact.
  • Balancing trade offs: You choose the right level of complexity to most effectively solve the problem given constraints.
  • Customer obsession: You understand the customer and how your insights or data solutions will improve their experience.
  • Clear Communicator: Able to translate complex data insights into simple, actionable narratives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Able to effectively work with cross-functional stakeholders to understand the problems to solve and serve as a thought partner, providing recommendations for data driven approaches.
  • Prioritization: Effectively prioritizes work based on product priorities and communicates any required trade offs to stakeholders.
  • Experimentation: Proficient in designing and analyzing A/B tests, with consideration for marketplace dynamics and strategies for handling smaller sample sizes.

Why we think you’ll love it here:

  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Annual vacation bonus - yes, we’ll pay you a bonus to take paid time off!
  • Individualized growth + development plans
  • Strong values around work/life balance
  • Community involvement opportunities
  • Competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave + 401K
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies to solve meaningful problems

$180,000 - $200,000 a year

At Field Nation, we share the value of transparency and enable this during our recruiting process. We believe it’s important to share the compensation range to best understand the full opportunity of a role! We select our initial range based on reliable compensation survey data. Other factors we consider in setting the specific pay for an individual will generally include, among other things, experience, specialized skills, work location, and internal equity to provide competitive offers. Additionally, every role is eligible for variable pay dependent on the position. As an agile and growing organization, the business needs may change. This may result in us hiring someone with less or more experience than the job description states. If that does happen, we will communicate the updated salary range and the new role to you as a candidate. The range stated below is a starting point of the compensation conversation, we’d like to hear what your compensation expectations are too!

Base Salary Range | Minnesota or other Zone 3 | $180,000 - 200,000

Come as you are:

At Field Nation, we believe work is about more than checking the right boxes.  If you don’t meet 100% of the requirements for this role, but still feel you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!  We review all applications and may even have another open position where you are the perfect fit.

Field Nation offers a flexible, highly collaborative, hybrid work environment.   We are looking for people to join our high performance culture in the states of WA, OR, AZ, UT, CO, TX, NE, KS, MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, KY, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL + CA.

Employment is contingent on passing a pre-employment background check. Your written consent will be obtained prior to a background check being performed.

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