Senior Data Scientist | Growth

Ramp Ramp · Fintech · New York, NY · Data

Ramp is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for its Growth team to lead the future of growth by defining analytical frameworks and strategic roadmaps for optimizing and scaling marketing investments. This role involves partnering with marketing, finance, and engineering to design, implement, and analyze experiments, build attribution models, and drive the allocation of significant marketing spend. The ideal candidate will have a strong quantitative background, Python and SQL proficiency, and experience with marketing experimentation and attribution.

What you'd actually do

  1. Employ statistical, machine learning, and econometric models on large datasets to evaluate channel performance and discern the causal impact of marketing and sales campaigns on a complex and nebulous enterprise sales cycle
  2. Build attribution models and investment frameworks to inform Ramp’s future brand channel investments, allowing Ramp’s finance and marketing teams to scale efficiently and understand which message resonates with each audience segment at each point in the customer journey
  3. Partner closely with Martech, Business Systems, and Growth Engineering teams to augment and leverage data across first and third-party sources, ensuring we’ve added as much context as possible to every decision we make
  4. Drive experimental design and implementation on new channels and surface areas of Ramp, ensuring we can iterate quickly and cost-effectively, especially on marketing spend designed to build awareness, consideration, and brand equity
  5. Contribute to the culture of Ramp’s data team by influencing processes, tools, and systems that will allow us to make better decisions in a scalable way

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields
  • Strong python experience (numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of SQL (preferably Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
  • Proven leadership and a track record of shipping improvements with growth and product organizations
  • Strong perspective on the marketing experimentation lifecycle (hypothesis generation, experimental design, implementation, statistical analysis, A/B testing best practices)
  • Deep familiarity with the past, present, and future of marketing attribution, martech, and the modern privacy landscape
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly improving, start-up environment

Nice to have

  • Experience at a high-growth startup
  • Familiarity with B2B enterprise sales cycle metrics and processes
  • Familiarity with the modern data stack (Fivetran / Snowflake / dbt / Looker / Hex / Hightouch or equivalents)
  • Familiarity with data orchestration platforms (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
  • Strong perspective on data science engineering development cycle (data modeling, version control, documentation + testing, best practices for codebase development)

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 5 years of industry experience as a Data Scientist
  • Proven leadership and a track record of shipping improvements with growth and product organizations
  • Strong perspective on the marketing experimentation lifecycle
  • Deep familiarity with the past, present, and future of marketing attribution, martech, and the modern privacy landscape