At Propel, our mission is to build modern, respectful, and effective financial tools for low-income Americans. Our vision is that all Americans can make it through every month with dignity and abundance. Over 5 million people use our app, Providers, to manage the benefits they use to keep their family well-fed and healthy, stay up to date on critical government programs, save money and earn income. Read more about the impact of Providers in the New York Times. 

We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help drive impact, starting with our ads platform which connects low-income users to significant financial savings, including government-subsidized discounts they may not be aware of. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll work on meaningful and complex technical problems that have a positive impact on our users’ lives. 

Propel is a for-profit software company that holds its social mission at its core. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, the Omidyar Network, Kevin Durant, Serena Williams, and Nas. 

What we offer:

  • Meaningful work and a strong shared sense of mission
  • A data science culture that is collaborative, curious, and impact focused
  • A people-first approach to management where we value data scientists’ voices, support career development, and offer opportunities for technical growth that interest you
  • A remote-first working environment. Our headquarters is in Brooklyn and we have in offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. We're currently accepting applications from the states we have an established entity, which includes California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.
  • 20 Days of PTO
  • 4% 401K match
  • $10k lifetime spend towards Carrot Fertility
  • Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision options
  • Free access to Ginger mental health, Gympass, Headspace, One Medical, Rightway, Sofi, and Spring Health
  • Fair, equitable, and competitive salaries. Propel believes that everyone should be compensated fairly and equitably. We set our salary ranges using compensation data from hundreds of NYC based startups at our stage. Additionally, pay is not determined based on location. The salary range for this position is $165,000 - $200,000 depending on experience and interview performance. Equity and excellent benefits come with this position as well!

What you will do:

  • Contribute to software systems used by millions of low-income Americans, helping to put dollars back in their pockets
  • Drive change through impactful data analysis and investigations
  • Support machine learning algorithms that improve how ad content is matched to users, how customer ad budget is spent, and how ad impressions are distributed. Contributions could be through analysis and data insight, but can also include production code. 
  • Maintain reliable data pipelines to ensure trustworthy data.
  • Help Data Analysts and Customer Success Managers make their processes efficient and valuable, serving as our resident expert in Marketplace data. 
  • Effectively communicate with team members during projects, code review, etc.
  • Contribute to building our data science culture and processes as we continue to scale
  • Collaborate on deciding on the right projects, building great solutions, and helping your team succeed

What you have:

  • 5+ years of startup experience
  • Fluency in SQL and either Python or R
  • Experience with machine learning algorithms
  • Deep experience with ad platforms and recommender systems 
  • Experience leading research efforts on product and system opportunities 
  • Exceptional skills at converting questions into data analysis and insight, with just the right level of complexity. 
  • Quantitative mindset, strong at working with probability distributions, causal inference, cost-benefit analysis, networks.
  • Experience with a startup environment or the ability to operate effectively when faced with ambiguity
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences and topics
  • Eagerness to learn new techniques, strong prioritization skills
  • Passion for making a difference in the lives of our users
  • Nice to have: Experience with or knowledge of government services, particularly safety net services like SNAP, WIC, TANF, SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, Section 8

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At Propel, we believe that an environment that is diverse, inclusive, and equitable drives us towards the best product and business decisions that allow us to effectively and consciously serve our mission and our users. As a social enterprise, we also recognize that caring about DEI is quite simply the right thing to do. 

The people that use our products are diverse in many ways - gender, age, race, sexual orientation, religion, disability status, and more. We explicitly aim to reflect that with our team composition, though we aren’t there yet. That’s why we are actively working to make sure our job descriptions are inclusive, our sourcing nets are widely cast, and our interview process is equitable and fair to all.

We particularly value those with lived experiences around financial hardship and safety net programs. While people from all backgrounds can contribute to Propel’s mission, we know that those who come from the communities we serve have an incredibly powerful and unique perspective.

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