Sweetgreen is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Scientist. This role is responsible for tackling complex business challenges across customer behavior, supply chain, and operational modeling. We are looking for someone who also has strong technical depth and experience in capabilities such as multivariate testing; customer insights; creating operational and labor efficiencies; evolving self-service analytics for business stakeholders; and digital product optimization.

Your input will be crucial on the evaluation and deployment of key components for our data science technology stack. We will rely on your technical expertise and acumen to answer difficult business questions across the organization. This also includes collaborating with engineering partners to integrate them into sweetgreen’s award winning digital experiences.

Your Impact

• Collect, analyze, and explain data to key stakeholders and executive leadership
• Develop and deploy predictive models and algorithms to solve complex business problems, using statistical and machine learning techniques
• Develop and implement deep learning models and architectures, including various flavors of deep neural networks, transformers, and reinforcement learning models, to solve complex business problems
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and workflows for feature engineering and embedding generation, ensuring the efficient processing and storage of large-scale data sets
• Use an experimental mindset to design and execute iterative testing of machine learning and deep learning models, and to generate hypotheses to improve model performance and business outcomes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and analysts, to identify opportunities for data-driven decision-making and provide insights to improve business outcomes
• Communicate effectively to all levels of the organization, including executives.
• Provide success in partnering teams with dramatically varying backgrounds, from the highly technical to the highly creative.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field - computer science, engineering, statistics, operations research, economics or related field
• 7+ years of experience in analytics or data science
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, with experience in Snowflake or similar, and using data science libraries and frameworks such as Pandas, Scikit-Learn, & PyTorch.
• Expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning, and deep learning techniques, with experience in developing and deploying predictive models and algorithms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: the ability to present complex data in a digestible format to stakeholders of all data literacy levels
• Strong experience using Git for version control, collaboration, and code management in data science projects, including merging, branching, and resolving conflict

What you'll get:

• Highly competitive pay + bonus plan
• Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's needs
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Flexible PTO plan
• 401k program
• Employee HSA and FSA
• Complimentary greens
• An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
• To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
• A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back
• A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
• Free sweetgreen swag

Come join the sweetlife!

About sweetgreen

sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we’re committed to leaving people better than we found them. We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.

sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

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