What you'll be doing:

Bring knowledge of analysis and applied machine learning to the challenges of product creation, development, maintenance and improvement to Wattpad systems (e.g. recommendations, search) with an appreciation for the behaviours of Wattpad users
Follow and maintain best practices for analysis, experimentation and machine learning solution development and communicate those to stakeholders and partners to help create business value and impact
Prove concepts, prototype and build iteratively in areas such as but not limited to: user analysis and metrics, dashboards, feature pipelines, recommendation, search and ranking solutions to achieve impact while developing comprehensive knowledge of business objectives, data structures, business impact, processes, advocating for changes where needed to improve the product
Work cross functionally to build and communicate key findings, POCs, prototypes, solutions and collaboration closely with product managers, engineers and designers to help build news experience on Wattpad

What we're looking for:

A passion for applying analytics and machine learning to business problems
Motivation and excitement to deal with ambiguous problems and challenges
3 years experience in a Data Scientist role with proven results in delivering high impact support and/or products with quantitative methods and applied machine learning through the lifecycle of development, implementation and evaluation
Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
A systematic approach to problem solving and project organization
Clear communication about problem requirements, benefits and challenges of approaches with stakeholders and team members
A team player who can collaborate and partner with other teams to achieve results
Comfort working with complex, high dimensional data in SQL, Python and Pyspark
Comfort with applied machine learning frameworks: scikit-learn, PyTorch, or Tensorflow
Proven experience in a software engineering environment developing and deploying data pipelines, dashboards and/or solutions.

What we offer:

Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
Your own health/wellness account to spend each year
RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!
Please note that the above salary range is in CAD.

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