Windfall · 1 day ago
Data Scientist (Varying Levels)
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $230K/yr
5+ years expWindfall is a people data and AI company focused on revolutionizing how organizations utilize people data through predictive models. They are seeking a product-oriented Senior or Staff Data Scientist to join their Modeling & AI team, where the role involves building custom propensity models and collaborating with clients to address significant challenges.
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Responsibilities
Build and Deploy Custom Models: You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of customer-facing machine learning models—from initial data exploration and feature engineering to model training, validation, deployment, and ongoing evaluations
Synthesize Diverse Datasets: You will become an expert at blending first-party customer data with Windfall's proprietary data assets to engineer novel features and build highly predictive models
Drive Product Innovation: You will act as a key technical partner to our Product and Customer Success teams, providing insights that shape our modeling strategy and helping to translate complex customer needs into scalable data science solutions
Think Outside the Box: You will tackle ambiguous problems and develop creative modeling strategies to address unique customer challenges across a variety of industries
Communicate with Impact: You will be responsible for clearly communicating model performance, methodology, and business impact to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional industry experience in a data science or machine learning role
Proven, hands-on experience building and deploying production-level predictive models (e.g., classification, regression, clustering)
Expert proficiency in Python and its core data science libraries (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, NumPy, XGBoost)
Advanced proficiency in SQL for complex data manipulation, aggregation, and analysis
A strong product-oriented mindset, with a demonstrated ability to connect data science work to tangible business value and customer success
Experience with the full machine learning lifecycle, including scoping, feature engineering, validation, deployment, and monitoring
The ability to communicate technical ideas to a non-technical audience
Preferred
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and an understanding of how they are used to deploy models
Experience building and orchestrating simple data pipelines using tools like Airflow
Experience working in marketing analytics, ad-tech, fintech, or for a nonprofit organization
A Master's degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or Mathematics
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Equity
Company
Windfall
Windfall is a people intelligence platform that provides AI workflow solutions to identify their audiences through automation.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$95MKey Investors
Morgan Stanley Expansion CapitalEn PointeBullpen Capital
2025-04-23Series B· $65M
2022-05-17Series A
2021-03-31Series A· $21M
Leadership Team
Arup Banerjee
CEO & Co-founder
Dan Stevens
Chief Operating Officer
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