Senior Data Scientist - Security and Trust
Company: Klaviyo, Inc.
Location: Warwick
Posted on: August 7, 2022
Job Description:
At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and
perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to
our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a
fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person
brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you're a close
but not exact match with the description, we hope you'll still
consider applying.The Security and Trust team detects and addresses
security vulnerabilities in the platform to safeguard the data of
our users and the integrity of the platform. We are looking to add
a Senior Data Scientist to help the Security Engineers in building
tools to analyze suspicious behavior and simulate the impacts of
vulnerabilities.Our data science team works on two types of
projects:
- Building features. We take ideas from inception to new machine
learning-powered features that ship to our hundreds of thousands of
users. You'll be central to creating features that help our
customers learn and grow from their data.
- Support the business. We perform analyses, build models, and
run experiments to make the Klaviyo business more efficient. You'll
work directly with stakeholders within the company and contribute
directly to business processes at Klaviyo.We're looking for people
who are strong at math, modeling, experimental design, and putting
themselves in the shoes of customers. You should be interested in
all aspects of what it takes to go from idea to generally available
feature or internal solution, even if your strengths and experience
today fall primarily in one area.The ideal candidate has a
background in data science, statistics and machine learning and has
done work ranging from exploratory analysis to training and
deploying models. We use a wide variety of data mining and machine
learning algorithms. The right candidate will have both a solid
fundamental understanding of and practical experience with at least
a few modeling and machine learning techniques.You should have
experience presenting data to help people make better decisions.
We're focused on shipping early and often. We prefer iterative
solutions that are incrementally better to the perfect solution.How
you will make a difference:
- Build data science-powered features that our customers love and
help them grow faster. Examples of features we've added to Klaviyo:
A/B testing, personalized product recommendations, and creative
assistance.
- Use data science to help Klaviyo grow faster. This includes
building smart algorithms to automate processes that are currently
manual, performing analyses to help our internal teams know how to
best target their resources, and building predictive models to
better understand our customers and business.
- Analyze large data sets (we're collecting billions of
individual actions every month).Who you are:
- Possess a strong fundamental understanding of - at least some
machine learning algorithms (e.g. regressions, decision trees,
k-means clustering, neural networks).
- Capable of analyzing data and making rigorous statements about
what can or cannot be concluded.
- Know how to - design and implement model performance/validation
assessments.
- Have a background in statistics and understand different
distributions and the conditions under which they're valid.
- Know how to code and have used data science tools and
packages.
- Have demonstrated a measurable impact based on the models
you've created. It's not always easy getting a model correct and we
love talking about places we got stuck and working as a team to
think through ideas that could unblock us.
- Have a desire to ship features powered by data science (in
other words, you're excited by both upfront research and actually
getting models into production at cloud scale); OR
- Have a desire to work directly with business stakeholders to
create tools that will provide insight and make them more
efficient.
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in statistics, applied
mathematics, computer science or other relevant quantitative
discipline, or equivalent industry experience.Get to Know
KlaviyoKlaviyo is a world-leading marketing automation platform
dedicated to accelerating revenue and customer connection for
online businesses. Klaviyo makes it easy to store, access, analyze
and use transactional and behavioral data to power highly-targeted
customer and prospect communications. The company's hybrid
customer-data and marketing-platform model allows companies to grow
by fostering direct relationships with customers, without giving up
their valuable data to popular big-tech ad platforms. Over 265,000
innovative companies like Unilever, Custom Ink, Living Proof and
Huckberry sell more with Klaviyo. If you are a Colorado resident
and this role is a remote role, you can receive additional
information about the compensation and benefits for this role,
which we will provide upon request.Klaviyo is committed to
diversity and to a policy of equal employment opportunity and
non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status,
ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender
identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected
by applicable law.
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