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Company summary:
Teragonia, a robustly capitalized startup with a well-established clientele, is dedicated to transforming the financial sponsor universe through cutting-edge data science and AI solutions. Our mission is to reimagine how financial sponsors execute their investment thesis, from sourcing to exit, and maximize value to all stakeholders (financial sponsors comprise private equity firms, venture capitalists, family funds, and sovereign wealth funds). We seek to accomplish this mission through an industry-aligned operating model that optimally blends business domain knowledge, technology, and quantitative techniques.
Our core offerings include: (i) business intelligence applications, (ii) enterprise solutions that provide data science and operations research-driven insights to business users, and (iii) data science consulting.
Teragonia offers a comprehensive career development platform through cross-learning within our multidisciplinary structure. We nurture a diverse, inclusive, collaborative, respectful, and collegial environment. Our competitive compensation package aligns with industry leaders, encompassing 401k contribution matching, medical insurance, and additional benefits.
Division summary:
Teragonia's Data Science and Operations Research (DS&OR) consulting division centers around the financial sponsor industry, given the important role the industry plays in fostering innovation and improving operating efficiency in the economy, while providing access to substantial private capital to startups and middle market companies. We specialize in leveraging innovative statistical, optimization, and AI/ML models to solve business problems and generate transformative business value.
We champion the professional growth and development of our team members, offering focused education, diverse professional experiences, and mentorship. We understand the importance of balancing between professional advancement and personal pursuits. Our team fosters a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
Job summary:
We are particularly interested in candidates who operate with integrity, intellectual humility, and a long-term career commitment. The ideal candidate for this role will have a solid foundation, and experience in data science, mathematical modeling, and programming. You should have the ability to extract, summarize and articulate meaningful business insights to our financial sponsor clients. As a Lead Data Scientist at Teragonia, you will be a significant contributor to our service delivery, innovation, business development, practice development and thought leadership. You will have the opportunity, and the management support, to develop specialized knowledge of data science and AI applications in a chosen industry or domain.
You will possess excellent leadership and project management skills, and be eager to develop as a key executive in the DS&OR division as your career with us progresses. We will provide appropriate mentorship and company selected resources for your leadership skills development.
Service delivery - technical skills:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be quick to understand the client's business needs and identify data-driven solutions. You will have a lead role in managing the engagement work flows, staffing, timelines and service quality. The ideal candidate is a hands-on problem solver, while simultaneously guiding the engagement team in using the relevant statistical, operations research, and machine learning techniques to analyze data and develop predictive models within the client's business context. You will have excellent attention to detail, project management skills and the ability to work effectively as part of our diverse multidisciplinary team of business analysts, software engineers, financial engineers, and operations researchers.
You will have a deep understanding of the business applications of data science to enable revenue growth and cost optimization for our clients. You will be passionate about continuous professional development in your chosen area of specialization, and develop and utilize expertise in technical research and review of existing solutions and literature relevant to the problem at hand.
You should be able to write clean code efficiently, to develop advanced models. You will have access to company selected resources and training programs to further develop your coding skills.
Transforming low-hygiene data sets to develop organized databases with high fidelity is a necessary part of the job. The ideal candidate is an expert in data wrangling skills, and possesses excellent knowledge of the software tools used for service delivery, including data manipulation and data visualization software. You will develop deep expertise in the Teragonia technology stack, for which we will provide appropriate training resources to the extent such tools are new to you.
Service delivery - engagement and client management:
You could be managing multiple client engagements simultaneously, or a large and complex engagement, and the scope of the engagement could evolve based on changing client needs. The financial sponsor universe demands actionable insights in a relatively short period. As such, the engagement duration typically lasts a few weeks relative to longer-duration projects at large global corporations. The ideal candidate will be excited about leading teams and solving a variety of business problems in parallel, in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
The engagement planning and status update meetings are critical to Teragonia's innovation process and maintaining high quality standards and efficiency. More importantly, they contribute to your professional development. You will actively lead the engagement planning and brainstorming sessions by presenting your own ideas, asking questions, challenging the ideas presented and lay out the project management plan including resource allocation, tasks assignment, priorities, timelines.
You will discuss the project management plan with the engagement leader to obtain necessary approvals and ensure the engagement team has a clear understanding of the project plan and is kept abreast of any updates or changes to the plan as the engagement progresses. You will monitor progress against the project management plan, and update the senior officers as needed. You will also be responsible for managing the engagement budget, identify potential overages as early as possible, and work with the engagement leader to effectively manage the engagement margin.
You will have strong communication and presentation skills and be able to clearly articulate to the team, engagement leader(s) and the client, the business applications and impact of the data science and quantitative concepts and principles relevant to the problem at hand.
Specialization:
You will develop specialized knowledge of data science and AI applications in a chosen industry or a domain (examples include, but not limited to, pricing, sales and marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, SaaS) or a combination of domain and industry that aligns with Teragonia's strategic goals. Teragonia will provide appropriate resources to develop your knowledge in the tools and the chosen industry and domain.
Innovation:
Constant, purpose-led innovation is central to Teragonia's success. You will work closely with a cross-functional team of Data Scientists, business analysts and software engineers to research, ideate, develop and test scalable data science enterprise applications. Innovating our processes to improve efficiency and novel solutions to our client's business problems will be highly regarded by the executive leadership.
Practice development- training:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will supervise, mentor and develop the junior Data Scientists both in an on-the-job and classroom settings. We operate on a "team-first" basis and your ability to mentor and develop the junior members is critical. You will also develop and lead the training programs in your chosen area of specialization to the DS&OR, Business Analytics and Software Engineering teams, as is relevant for the trainees day-to-day functions and responsibilities.
Practice development - recruitment:
You will be an active contributor in Teragonia's recruitment efforts to attract top talent. You will assist the senior officers in promoting the open positions and help with the development, supervision and evaluation of the applicable knowledge and skill assessment tests.
Practice development - marketing:
You will assist the executive leadership and the officers with strategic marketing initiatives, and play an active role in preparing marketing materials such as pitch decks, case studies, and online marketing campaigns.
You will play an important role in the client account relationship development teams assigned to you by the executive leadership including researching the clients investment objectives and theses, portfolio companies, organizing social events and training programs for the clients investment teams, developing and maintaining the client's awareness of Teragonia's service and product offerings as well as relevant credentials, developing working relationships with at least your peer level client officers, and documenting the account management activities in Teragonia's CRM system.
Thought leadership
You will actively assist with conducting research for thought leadership initiatives in your chosen area of specialization, including publishing white papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, presenting at conferences, and relevant domain-specific publications. Initiative in coming up with effective training and development programs and practical new business development ideas, as well as identifying areas to pursue and publish our thought leadership based on your own research, will be highly regarded by the executive leadership.
DS & OR Flexible work policy:
We empower you to choose the work environment that best balances your personal needs with the business needs. We recognize that a remote location may allow you to better focus and balance your personal needs. We also believe brainstorming, planning, and team-building exercises are most effective in person and would expect you to be in the office, except when specific remote working arrangements are agreed due to personal situations.
For candidates living in the Chicago metropolitan area or New York City or within commutable distance, we expect your presence in the office based on business or team needs or team-building activities that are most productive in person. We do not impose specific days for in-office attendance.
We will consider specific remote working arrangements for candidates living outside the Chicago metropolitan area, New York City, or the adjacent suburbs to both cities. We ask that you travel to our headquarters for important events, such as critical brainstorming and planning sessions, training, or team-building events. If we open an office near you in the future, the same flexible work policy would apply as for our employees living in the Chicago metropolitan area or New York City, or within a commutable distance.
For more junior applicants ( less than 3 years of professional experience), we are looking for candidates living in, or willing to relocate to, within commutable distance of the Chicago metropolitan area or New York City so that we can provide you with the support and mentorship as you grow in your career. If you are willing to relocate to the Chicago metropolitan area, New York City, or within commutable distance, we will reimburse your reasonable relocation expenses.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement
Teragonia strives for diversity and inclusion in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications of the individual and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy or other medical conditions/needs), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any legally protected characteristic not otherwise covered here. We encourage all to apply.
Requirements
Minimum requirements:
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to attract top talent and motivate high performance.
Company summary:
Teragonia, a robustly capitalized startup with a well-established clientele, is dedicated to transforming the financial sponsor universe through cutting-edge data science and AI solutions. Our mission is to reimagine how financial sponsors execute their investment thesis, from sourcing to exit, and maximize value to all stakeholders (financial sponsors comprise private equity firms, venture capitalists, family funds, and sovereign wealth funds). We seek to accomplish this mission through an industry-aligned operating model that optimally blends business domain knowledge, technology, and quantitative techniques.
Our core offerings include: (i) business intelligence applications, (ii) enterprise solutions that provide data science and operations research-driven insights to business users, and (iii) data science consulting.
Teragonia offers a comprehensive career development platform through cross-learning within our multidisciplinary structure. We nurture a diverse, inclusive, collaborative, respectful, and collegial environment. Our competitive compensation package aligns with industry leaders, encompassing 401k contribution matching, medical insurance, and additional benefits.
Division summary:
Teragonia's Data Science and Operations Research (DS&OR) consulting division centers around the financial sponsor industry, given the important role the industry plays in fostering innovation and improving operating efficiency in the economy, while providing access to substantial private capital to startups and middle market companies. We specialize in leveraging innovative statistical, optimization, and AI/ML models to solve business problems and generate transformative business value.
We champion the professional growth and development of our team members, offering focused education, diverse professional experiences, and mentorship. We understand the importance of balancing between professional advancement and personal pursuits. Our team fosters a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
Job summary:
We are particularly interested in candidates who operate with integrity, intellectual humility, and a long-term career commitment. The ideal candidate for this role will have a solid foundation, and experience in data science, mathematical modeling, and programming. You should have the ability to extract, summarize and articulate meaningful business insights to our financial sponsor clients. As a Lead Data Scientist at Teragonia, you will be a significant contributor to our service delivery, innovation, business development, practice development and thought leadership. You will have the opportunity, and the management support, to develop specialized knowledge of data science and AI applications in a chosen industry or domain.
You will possess excellent leadership and project management skills, and be eager to develop as a key executive in the DS&OR division as your career with us progresses. We will provide appropriate mentorship and company selected resources for your leadership skills development.
Service delivery - technical skills:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be quick to understand the client's business needs and identify data-driven solutions. You will have a lead role in managing the engagement work flows, staffing, timelines and service quality. The ideal candidate is a hands-on problem solver, while simultaneously guiding the engagement team in using the relevant statistical, operations research, and machine learning techniques to analyze data and develop predictive models within the client's business context. You will have excellent attention to detail, project management skills and the ability to work effectively as part of our diverse multidisciplinary team of business analysts, software engineers, financial engineers, and operations researchers.
You will have a deep understanding of the business applications of data science to enable revenue growth and cost optimization for our clients. You will be passionate about continuous professional development in your chosen area of specialization, and develop and utilize expertise in technical research and review of existing solutions and literature relevant to the problem at hand.
You should be able to write clean code efficiently, to develop advanced models. You will have access to company selected resources and training programs to further develop your coding skills.
Transforming low-hygiene data sets to develop organized databases with high fidelity is a necessary part of the job. The ideal candidate is an expert in data wrangling skills, and possesses excellent knowledge of the software tools used for service delivery, including data manipulation and data visualization software. You will develop deep expertise in the Teragonia technology stack, for which we will provide appropriate training resources to the extent such tools are new to you.
Service delivery - engagement and client management:
You could be managing multiple client engagements simultaneously, or a large and complex engagement, and the scope of the engagement could evolve based on changing client needs. The financial sponsor universe demands actionable insights in a relatively short period. As such, the engagement duration typically lasts a few weeks relative to longer-duration projects at large global corporations. The ideal candidate will be excited about leading teams and solving a variety of business problems in parallel, in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
The engagement planning and status update meetings are critical to Teragonia's innovation process and maintaining high quality standards and efficiency. More importantly, they contribute to your professional development. You will actively lead the engagement planning and brainstorming sessions by presenting your own ideas, asking questions, challenging the ideas presented and lay out the project management plan including resource allocation, tasks assignment, priorities, timelines.
You will discuss the project management plan with the engagement leader to obtain necessary approvals and ensure the engagement team has a clear understanding of the project plan and is kept abreast of any updates or changes to the plan as the engagement progresses. You will monitor progress against the project management plan, and update the senior officers as needed. You will also be responsible for managing the engagement budget, identify potential overages as early as possible, and work with the engagement leader to effectively manage the engagement margin.
You will have strong communication and presentation skills and be able to clearly articulate to the team, engagement leader(s) and the client, the business applications and impact of the data science and quantitative concepts and principles relevant to the problem at hand.
Specialization:
You will develop specialized knowledge of data science and AI applications in a chosen industry or a domain (examples include, but not limited to, pricing, sales and marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, SaaS) or a combination of domain and industry that aligns with Teragonia's strategic goals. Teragonia will provide appropriate resources to develop your knowledge in the tools and the chosen industry and domain.
Innovation:
Constant, purpose-led innovation is central to Teragonia's success. You will work closely with a cross-functional team of Data Scientists, business analysts and software engineers to research, ideate, develop and test scalable data science enterprise applications. Innovating our processes to improve efficiency and novel solutions to our client's business problems will be highly regarded by the executive leadership.
Practice development- training:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will supervise, mentor and develop the junior Data Scientists both in an on-the-job and classroom settings. We operate on a "team-first" basis and your ability to mentor and develop the junior members is critical. You will also develop and lead the training programs in your chosen area of specialization to the DS&OR, Business Analytics and Software Engineering teams, as is relevant for the trainees day-to-day functions and responsibilities.
Practice development - recruitment:
You will be an active contributor in Teragonia's recruitment efforts to attract top talent. You will assist the senior officers in promoting the open positions and help with the development, supervision and evaluation of the applicable knowledge and skill assessment tests.
Practice development - marketing:
You will assist the executive leadership and the officers with strategic marketing initiatives, and play an active role in preparing marketing materials such as pitch decks, case studies, and online marketing campaigns.
You will play an important role in the client account relationship development teams assigned to you by the executive leadership including researching the clients investment objectives and theses, portfolio companies, organizing social events and training programs for the clients investment teams, developing and maintaining the client's awareness of Teragonia's service and product offerings as well as relevant credentials, developing working relationships with at least your peer level client officers, and documenting the account management activities in Teragonia's CRM system.
Thought leadership
You will actively assist with conducting research for thought leadership initiatives in your chosen area of specialization, including publishing white papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, presenting at conferences, and relevant domain-specific publications. Initiative in coming up with effective training and development programs and practical new business development ideas, as well as identifying areas to pursue and publish our thought leadership based on your own research, will be highly regarded by the executive leadership.
DS & OR Flexible work policy:
We empower you to choose the work environment that best balances your personal needs with the business needs. We recognize that a remote location may allow you to better focus and balance your personal needs. We also believe brainstorming, planning, and team-building exercises are most effective in person and would expect you to be in the office, except when specific remote working arrangements are agreed due to personal situations.
For candidates living in the Chicago metropolitan area or New York City or within commutable distance, we expect your presence in the office based on business or team needs or team-building activities that are most productive in person. We do not impose specific days for in-office attendance.
We will consider specific remote working arrangements for candidates living outside the Chicago metropolitan area, New York City, or the adjacent suburbs to both cities. We ask that you travel to our headquarters for important events, such as critical brainstorming and planning sessions, training, or team-building events. If we open an office near you in the future, the same flexible work policy would apply as for our employees living in the Chicago metropolitan area or New York City, or within a commutable distance.
For more junior applicants ( less than 3 years of professional experience), we are looking for candidates living in, or willing to relocate to, within commutable distance of the Chicago metropolitan area or New York City so that we can provide you with the support and mentorship as you grow in your career. If you are willing to relocate to the Chicago metropolitan area, New York City, or within commutable distance, we will reimburse your reasonable relocation expenses.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement
Teragonia strives for diversity and inclusion in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications of the individual and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy or other medical conditions/needs), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any legally protected characteristic not otherwise covered here. We encourage all to apply.
Requirements
Minimum requirements:
- Be located in the United States.
- Masters' degree in Data Science, Analytics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Management Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related STEM field with a strong academic record.
- 5+ years of experience in a data science or quantitative role managing teams of Data Scientists.
- Experience with machine learning and AI solutions.
- Proficiency in Python or R, Spark/PySpark, and ETL software such as Dataiku, Alteryx, Databricks etc.
- Experience in a leading consulting organization.
- Exposure to financial sponsors in a professional setting.
- Prior knowledge of business management or corporate finance applications.
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to attract top talent and motivate high performance.
- Competitive Total Compensation - We constantly benchmark our pay scales against the market to maintain competitiveness.
- Restricted Stock Awards - We offer restricted stock awards to select positions to ensure our teams' long term commitment and hard work are rewarded by sharing our collective success.
- Visa Sponsorship - We offer visa sponsorship for eligible employees.
- 401k Plan with Employer Contributions - We help secure your future with 100% matching of 401k contributions up to 6% of your annual base salary after your first work anniversary.
- Professional Development Opportunities - We will sponsor company-selected training sessions, conferences, and certifications to foster your growth.
- Meal Reimbursement - Reimbursement for lunch at the office, and dinner too if you are working past 7 pm, up to a limit.
- Gym Membership - Reimbursement for fitness & wellness programs, such as gym memberships, up to a limit.
- Commuter Benefits - We offer the opportunity to leverage the available tax con...
