Who you are
- Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering (advanced degrees preferred), or relevant work experience
- 1+ years experience in a data science role or analytics role
- Proficiency in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets
- End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
- Experience in programming, especially with data science and visualization libraries in Python or R, and machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras
- Experience in online experimentation and statistical analysis, and communicating results and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners
- Experience in applying machine learning techniques a plus (e.g. reinforcement learning) to solve customer problems (e.g. personalization, segmentation)
- Experience working with ETL pipelines a plus
What the job involves
- Leverage data and analytic frameworks to identify opportunities for growth and efficiency
- Partner with product managers, engineers,
and operators to translate analytical insights into decisions and action, and implement products to drive business goals
- Design and analyze online experiments; communicate results and act on launch decisions
- Develop analytical frameworks to monitor business and product performance
- Establish metrics that measure the health of our products, as well as rider and driver experience
- Identify and drive impact and alignment, shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations
Advantages
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
📌 Data Scientist (Toronto)
🏢 Lyft
📍 Toronto