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SalaryPorch Group is a vertical software company reinventing the home services and insurance industries. Through our family of technology, SaaS, and Insurance companies we are able to offer innovative software and service solutions to more than 28,500 companies, and 350,000 policyholders across the country.
Our mission is to completely transform the way people buy, sell, move, and manage their homes throughout their home journey. Sure, it's a tall order to transform a $320 billion industry, but we're already well on our way. Since we were founded in 2012, we've stuck to our values and our commitment to foster a "No Jerks, No Egos" culture, which is a big reason we've gone from a scrappy startup to a Nasdaq-listed company and the industry-leading partner for the home in less than eight years.
At Porch Group, no two days will ever be the same and you'll have the opportunity to help solve big problems, with a refreshing balance of team support and ownership of your work.
Job Title: Data Scientist
Location: United States
Workplace Type: Remote
Job Summary
The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we'd love for you to be a part of it as our Data Scientist.
Looking for a hands-on Data Scientist to join our Data Science team. This small team is composed of Data Scientists and machine learning engineers and focuses on uncovering and maximizing opportunities for optimization. Learning is strongly encouraged and the team regularly discusses tools, techniques, and resources.
Communication will be a key part of your job. You will contribute to business analytics and strategy, and act as a bridge between those teams and the data science team. You will work collaboratively with engineers and product managers in other teams, while also learning and growing with your team.
If you are highly analytical, love solving problems, enjoy working on teams, and have a strong intellectual curiosity to learn and apply new modeling methods to optimize the customer experience, the Data Science team at Porch just might be the place for you! You will help transform key business processes into algorithm-driven adaptive workflows informed by data science models you help build.
The right candidate has strong data science technical skills and a demonstrated ability to solve customer and business problems. You should have experience with statistical modeling, machine learning techniques, and A/B testing
What You Will Do As A Data Scientist
- Partner closely with product, operations, and engineering to understand the business processes and identify impactful opportunities therein
- Dive into operational data and suggest changes to improve the fidelity, accuracy and accessibility of that data for optimization purposes
- Build optimization models to take advantage of the opportunities identified
- Design and implement tests to measure the impact of models and business tactics
- Conduct quantitative analysis to monitor and tune models and business processes
- Communicate summaries of deeply technical results to a broad audience
- Partner with machine learning engineers to deliver models in Python that can be deployed in production
- Collaborate on our data science technical roadmap
- Meet regularly with other business stakeholders to develop strategies
What You Will Bring As A Data Scientist
- 3+ years of experience in data analysis, applied statistics, machine learning, or econometrics at the industry level, or 5+ years between academia and industry
- Excellent communication skills and the interest and ability to communicate to non-technical stakeholders
- Command of fundamental statistics and probability theory
- Significant experience with a typical data science technology stack
- Hands-on experience with a broad range of modeling techniques and performance metrics
- Understanding of the process of taking models from development to production
- Ability to write clean and unit-tested modular code that can be deployed to production
What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member
Pay Range*: $86,300 to $126,500 annually
- Please know your actual pay at Porch will reflect a number of factors among which are your work experience and skillsets,job-related knowledge, alignment with market and our Porch employees, as well as your geographic location.
Additionally, you will be eligible to receive long-term incentive awards, subject to program guidelines and approvals.
Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, financial wellness and wellbeing.
- Our health care benefits include medical, dental and vision programs with healthcare savings account (HSA) and healthcare flexible spending account (FSA) options.
- Our life and disability benefits include company-provided and voluntary life and AD&D insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Our financial wellness programs include a 401(k) retirement savings plan and dependent care flexible spending account (DC FSA) and transportation savings account options.
- Our wellness programs include flexible paid vacation, company-paid holidays of typically nine per year, paid sick time, paid parental leave, an employee assistance program (EAP), identity theft program, travel assistance, will preparation, and fitness and other discounts programs.
The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from 2/22/2024. Please know this may change based on business and interviewing needs.
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What's next?
Submit your application and our Porch Group Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing your application shortly! If your resume gets us intrigued, we will look to connect with you for a chat to learn more about your background, and then possibly invite you to have virtual interviews. What's important to call out is that we want to make sure not only that you're the right person for us, but also that we're the right next step for you, so come prepared with all the questions you have!
Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
Porch Group is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is a web-based system that allows an employer to determine an employee's eligibility to work in the US using information reported on an employee's Form I-9. The E-Verify system confirms eligibility with both the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For more information, please go to the USCIS E-Verify website.
