Weedmaps · 1 day ago
Senior Data Scientist
New York City, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$178K/yr - $210K/yr
6+ years expWeedmaps is a global leader in the cannabis industry, and they are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to shape their people-facing and business-facing products. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to analyze data, develop insights, and influence product strategy while building and deploying AI/ML models in production.
AdvertisingAppsCannabisCollaborative ConsumptionInformation TechnologyInternetMedia and Entertainment
Responsibilities
Work with large, messy, and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical, statistical, ML, and AI approaches
Collaborate with Data and Analytic Engineers to improve the quality and usability of our data and generate reusable assets in our feature store
Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, causal inference, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products that serve billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses
Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations
Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product and business strategy
Build and deploy interactive applications to enable business partners to answer questions
Develop, deploy, and maintain AI/ML models in production with support from the ML team
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
A minimum of 6 years of work experience in data science and analytics
Expert coding skills in Python and SQL, plus deep familiarity with Git and CI/CD practices
Exceptional data visualization and storytelling skills
Experience deploying and maintaining ML models in production environments
Preferred
Experience with dbt and/or jinja for building performant data models
Experience building recommender systems or other personalization tooling at scale
Familiarity with Spark, dask, or other big data manipulation tools
Experience building and deploying Streamlit applications
Experience working with event tracking data (Segment, Amplitude, etc.) and/or building user journey insights
Familiarity with the AWS stack, including Sagemaker and Bedrock
Benefits
Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
100% employer-paid premium for employees
Up to 80% coverage for dependents
Up to $2,000 company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
Supplemental, voluntary benefits
Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Accident Insurance
Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
Pet Insurance
Identity theft protection
Legal access to a network of attorneys
PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
Paid parental leave
Company
Weedmaps
Weedmaps is the world's first marijuana technology and media brand. It is a sub-organization of WM Technology.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (1)
2021 (4)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-04-13Undisclosed
2018-08-15Undisclosed
2015-11-01Acquired
Leadership Team
Arden Lee
CFO
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