Senior Data Scientist - Advanced Analytics

About the role

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

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If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Department

Technology, Data & Analytics Team

Who You Are

You are an experienced data scientist who uses rigorous analysis to help leaders make consequential business decisions. You are comfortable working with imperfect data, ambiguous questions, and situations where a clean experiment is not possible. You can build a forecast, evaluate an investment, estimate causal impact, or design a pricing analysis – and clearly communicate the uncertainty and trade-offs behind your recommendation. 

This role is part of our Advanced Analytics group within our Enterprise Analytics team. You'll primarily partner with Finance, Strategy, Marketing, and Product Marketing to identify and frame domain-specific use-cases as data science problems, design the appropriate technical solutions, and collaborate with business leaders to leverage your insights in their decisions.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Build and maintain revenue forecasting, churn forecasting, LTV, customer segmentation, and other business planning models
• Develop marketing mix models and channel-investment recommendations
• Partner with Finance, Marketing, and Product Marketing to turn strategic questions into decision-ready analyses
• Develop clear executive narratives that explain findings, limitations, assumptions, and recommended action
• Develop and apply AI-assisted approaches to analysis, insight delivery, and data workflows to multiply your impact and expand the reach of data science across the organization
• Partner with analytics engineer and data governance to improve and build on our trusted data models

How You Will Do Your Work

In the Data Scientist role, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
• Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking. This includes helping product partners develop a more data-informed mindset, not just answering their questions.
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. 
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data science or advanced analytics, with a track record of driving business impact through statistical analysis and predictive modeling
• Strong expertise in at least two of the following: financial forecasting, customer LTV modeling, pricing research, causal inference or quasi-experimental design
• Excellent communication and data storytelling skills — you can translate complex findings into clear narratives that influence strategy and decisions
• Strong business judgment, with the ability to reframe an initial request around the underlying decision and trade-offs
• Fluent in SQL
• Experience with Python for statistical analysis and modeling
• Familiarity with a cloud-based data stack (e.g. Snowflake, dbt)
• Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a track record of applying them to accelerate analysis, improve rigor, or expand the reach of data science work

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $166,000.00 - $214,000.00 per year.

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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.  Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. 

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks. 

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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