Who we are
Our Long Term Impact LTI Science team drives development of world-class ML systems that estimate the long term impact of business decisions and customer actions. We build innovative ML products and services that provide insights to drive LT-aware decisions that improve our customer experience and loyalty in the long term and ultimately grow our business. We have a modern tech stack including sophisticated capabilities around causal inference and ML. Were a highly collaborative supportive team that values learning psychological safety and intentional career development.
As a Senior Economist youll be working to push the boundary of approaches to causal inference with rich high-volume customer data identifying drivers of business growth beyond AB testing. With engineering partners youll implement these best-in-class approaches as scalable solutions to drive broad impact across marketing operations and storefront. This role is an opportunity to lead how Wayfair approaches work at the intersection of data engineering and statistics.
What youll do
Lead R&D effort to develop innovative causal inference approaches that will extend current capabilities and develop new ML products to provide insights on LTI.
Work highly cross-functionally with business leadership stakeholders and partner science and engineering teams to drive the integration of model outputs into company-wide business decision-making and existing production systems.
Developing robust solutions to infer or recover causal relationships from observational data in a way that minimizes self-selection or third-variable problems.
Develop and own communication strategy for both technical and business stakeholders including executive documentation and progress updates.
Act as a subject matter expert and thought leader on causal inference techniques research industry trends and best practices and bring them to life at Wayfair.
Provide mentorship and technical guidance to develop your team as well to influence broader science organization.
Who you are
PhD in Economics Statistics or other quantitative field with an emphasis on causal inference.
3 years of experience working as a professional ML or research scientist in causal inference.
Consistent track record of autonomous delivery of DSML projects that drive measurable business impact.
Collaborative team player who wants to see themselves and others thrive.
Expertise in causal inference and interest in bringing best-in-class solutions to e-commerce space.
Takes a customer-centric approach to ideation and problem-solving.
Track-record of influencing non-technical stakeholders on strategic direction by leveraging data-driven insights.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset and a desire for creative problem solving looking to make a big impact in a growing organization.
Strong SQL skills and excellent software engineering skills in Python.
Nice-to-haves
Experience with GCP BigQuery GCS Dataproc Notebooks Airflow and containerization Docker.
Experience building scalable data processing pipelines with big data tools such as Hadoop Hive Spark etc.
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About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the worlds largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world were reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If youre looking for rapid growth constant learning and dynamic challenges then youll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
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