Sr. Data Scientist (hybrid in Bangalore)

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · India · Business Intelligence & Ops

Senior Data Scientist role focused on leveraging Applied AI and advanced analytics to drive growth and customer retention for Smartsheet's Go-to-Market teams. The role involves developing and deploying machine learning models for cross-sell/upsell, product recommendations, and churn prediction, with a strong emphasis on integrating data science solutions into business processes and driving data-driven decision-making.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Sales and Customer Success teams, understand their goals, and execute on opportunities to draw relevant insights and drive tangible impact
  2. Develop and implement machine learning based Cross-sell/Upsell models and Product Recommender models to drive Sales & Monetization
  3. Build and deploy predictive models for Customer Churn and identify proactive churn risk prediction signals to drive retention
  4. Drive the full analytics lifecycle from understanding the business objective, analyzing the data to developing automated reporting and visualizations
  5. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data science solutions into business processes

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience (or 10+ years of experience)
  • Extensive knowledge and practical experience in several of the following areas: Applied AI, machine learning, statistics, propensity modeling, churn prediction and recommender systems
  • Proficient analytical skills for problem solving; can perform descriptive analysis, diagnostic analysis, predictive analysis and prescriptive analysis.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or R
  • Proficient in SQL and skilled in visualization tools (ex. Tableau)
  • Strong track record of forming effective cross-functional partnerships
  • Experience using data to meaningfully impact Sales & Customer Success strategy execution
  • Experience communicating analysis clearly to others
  • Ability to research and learn new technologies, tools, and methodologies
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, find opportunities and execute in both independent and collaborative environments
  • As a senior member of the data science team help mentor and help grow members of the team

What the JD emphasized

  • Applied AI
  • machine learning
  • recommender systems
  • churn prediction

Other signals

  • Applied AI
  • machine learning
  • advanced analytics
  • Sales
  • Customer Success
  • Monetization
  • retention
  • churn prediction
  • recommender systems