Job description

Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers, sellers, and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by thirdparty sellers.

Job Description:

• Applied scientists are specialists with deep expertise in areas such as machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, computer vision, knowledge acquisition, etc.
• They apply scientific principles in their area of expertise and related fields to: (a) assess the feasibility and timeline of new initiatives requiring significant inventions, and (b) develop new algorithms or enhance existing algorithms for significantly improving the customer experience/impact.
• They are externally aware of the state-of-the-art in their respective field of expertise and are constantly focused on advancing the state-of-the-art for improving Client's products and services.

Additional Skills:

• Python: required, level: Expert, Last Used: Currently Using.
• Experience:
• 4-6 years

Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects

Please describe the team the TEMP will be joining. What projects do they work on? What is the team culture like?

• Lead scoring, machine learning
• multiple milestones to support region to enable capability MLM to find potential customers (marketing stakeholders, internals sales team)
• Team, 2 BIE, 3 fulltime employees (strategy analytics team shared service)
• GDO global demand generation
• models (binary classifications)
• Reason for the request
• LOA
• 2 projects are currently at risk given her absence: a) MRC GCR MAL-MI prioritization; b) CS GLBL MQL ML modeling.

Typical Day in the Role:

What will a typical day in the life of this role look like once the TEMP is ramped up?

• Wiki meetings, stand up process overview on what other projects that are going on, team meetings weekly
• 1:1 meeting
• Connect with business team, meeting stakeholder’s requirements to include in model design, pulling data with internal communication with BI, then try to make a prototype of model

Opportunity for conversion?

• Not at this time, possibly more in the future
• Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

In a competitive market, why should a candidate accept this role instead of another that is similar?

• Scientist roles
• Rising team, accomplish a lot in the last year, raised the bar delivering results, got recognition from multiple teams
• Number one machine learning team
• High visibility among stakeholders
• Communicate with different stakeholders
• Collaboration
• Exploratory
• Team culture is balanced no micromanagement, fun activities

Candidate Requirements

What leadership principles stand out to you for this role?

• Ownership
• Dive deep
• Earning trust

How many years of experience do you require or prefer?

• 3-5 years
• Supervised vs non supervised machine learning
• Balance between depth and breadth
• Predictive modeling

What degrees, certifications, and skills do you require or prefer?

• Master's degree

What qualifications would a candidate possess that would make them the best vs an average candidate?

• AWS experience
• Linux experience
• NLP experience

What are some red flags that would immediately make you disqualify a candidate?

• Only do AP testing, new grads, if they don’t build data models from end to end

What KPIs will you and the candidate use to measure success?

• Finishing projects
• Multiple checkpoints on model design
• Delivery of models
• Progressive partnership

Top 3 must-have hard skills

• Python proficiency required
• Write production codes (algorithms SD 1 code bar)
• SQL proficiency

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $63.00 - $66.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

• Can you work on W2?
• Are you comfortable with the location Seattle, WA?
• How many years of experience do you have as a Data Scientist/Applied Scientist?

Work Location: In person

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