GitHub · 12 hours ago
Data Scientist III
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$108K/yr - $286K/yr
4+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Data Scientist III to help build industry-leading solutions for their Enterprise and Developer customers. The role involves leveraging advanced data science skills to address operational challenges, focusing on forecasting and resource planning while collaborating with various teams to drive operational excellence.
Telecom & CommunicationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftwareDeveloper ToolsInternetProject Management
Responsibilities
Identify and acquire data necessary for analysis, perform transformation and exploration, while adhering to GitHub's privacy policies
Build, maintain, and refine forecasting models for the business trends and business resource needs. Translate forecasts into actionable staffing and scheduling recommendations aligned with service-level goals
Deliver forward-looking insights to highlight risks and enable proactive action
Present findings and recommendations through visualizations, dashboards and PowerBI reports to support decision making for strategic and operational audiences
Collaborate with Support Leadership, Analytics, and cross-functional partners to align on forecasting assumptions, methodologies, and resource planning priorities and drive operational excellence through careful forecasting, proactive monitoring, and diagnostics
Collaborate closely with the engineering team to consider upcoming AI automations and their impact on support capacity needs
Collaborate with others to perform data science experiments using established methodologies and statistics, identifying appropriate tools and techniques
Leverage broad and deep knowledge of modeling techniques for forecasting, and scaling workforce. Consider and account for risks of data leakage, bias/variance tradeoff, and methodological limitations
Write efficient, readable and extensible code that spans multiple features/solutions, adhering to software engineering concepts and practices
Build documentation for knowledge transfer and deployment of predictive analytic models
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in data science (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques), forecasting, capacity planning, or workforce analytics or related field
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in data science (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques) or related field
OR Doctorate Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Strong proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL, Excel)
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and present insights with clarity
Experience building forecasting models and translating outputs into actionable recommendations
Forecasting in support operations experience
Experience in Python, MySQL or similar
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Company
GitHub
GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
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