Manager, Data Science

About Foursquare 

Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform, dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquare’s location tech stack is being utilized by our mobile apps CityGuide and Swarm, as well as the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands, like Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Spotify, Uber, Airbnb and others.

Foursquare’s flexible building blocks include technology to maximize marketing impact and drive incremental real-world engagement (Attribution, Audience, Proximity, SDK); data to deeply understand points of interest and real-world behavior patterns (Places and Visits), and tools to conduct advanced analysis, data enrichment, unification and visualization (Studio).

About the Position

Foursquare is looking for a Manager, Data Science to join our User Data Science team located in or near one of our office hubs - New York City, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco.

You’ll be responsible for leading innovative efforts to build and evolve the next generation of our Movements engine, data normalization, and integrated user modeling solutions. You would leverage cutting-edge machine learning, causal inference, and forecasting technologies to reshape our solutions and to help our clients optimize their analytical strategies and drive higher efficiency. This role is foundational to our Insights and Attribution products, which are the largest revenue drivers at Foursquare.

The ideal candidate for this role will demonstrate, experience leading and coaching junior and senior data scientists, strong domain expertise with strong knowledge of ML, forecasting and causal inference, the ability to work effectively across multiple internal stakeholders in product, engineering and sales and with external clients and vendors, and the ability to communicate deeply technical details in an understandable and consumable way to non-technical partners in order to achieve the best outcome for Foursquare and its customers.

In this role, you’ll 

• Manage and grow a high performing team with both junior and senior data scientists to deliver business impact on time and with quality
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to ensure that model development and quality measurements are informed by customer requirements
• Coach the team to leverage data sources at scale (dozens of different data sources, billions of rows), machine learning, observational causal inference, time series forecasting and bias corrections, to design, prototype, implement, evaluate and monitor the next generation of our Movements engine and normalization methodology
• Drive projects across multiple products and areas, provide thought leadership to the team both strategically and technically, drive a roadmap and provide mentorship efficiently, drive the Data Science culture such as experimentation
• Comfortable coaching the team to dive deep for descriptive analyses to generate insights from our data and to design and analyze experiments to measure the effectiveness of our solutions
• Think proactively and strategically about opportunities to improve and scale our user modeling solutions

What you’ll need 

• 7+ years of industry experience with a Masters, or 4+ years with a PhD
• 2+ years of direct people management experience
• Strong domain knowledge of machine learning, causal inference, forecasting
• Degree in quantitative field of study (computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, etc.)
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Strong problem solving and data-driven decision making skills, with a track record of successfully uncovering data insights that lead to positive business impact
• Proven track record of delivering on large scale products and/or complex practical research endeavors
• Ability to solve business problems using appropriate methods and models
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to influence cross functional partners of varying technical levels and drive impact
• PhD in Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, or related field preferred
• A plus if you have a passion for the geo-location industry and a desire to keep up with and find opportunities to apply modern academic and industry research into our solutions
• A plus if you have a deep understanding of the external cutting edge machine learning, forecasting, bias correction methods
• Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible PTO - rest and recharge when you need it!
• Industry Leading Healthcare - comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
• Savings and Investments - 401(k) with company match
• Equipment Setup - you will receive all necessary hardware for your job function
• Professional Development - annual learning stipend for your career development goals
• Family Planning and Fertility Programs - programs via Carrot 
• Employee Resource Groups - to help you stay connected
• Hybrid Work Schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays beginning April 1, 2024. For roles considered remote, this will not apply.

At Foursquare, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry and market standards.  Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, and specific office location.

The annual total cash compensation range is $152,000 - 251,750, howeveractual salaries can vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills and competencies, as well as location. 

Salary is just one component of Foursquare’s total compensation package, which includes restricted stock units, multiple health insurance options, and a wide range of benefits!

Things to know…

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