Data Scientist

Job Location: Remote

ROLE OVERVIEW:

Delivers advanced people analytics and predictive insights to enable strategic, fair, and data‑driven workforce decisions.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Develop advanced people analytics and predictive models to inform workforce planning, retention, and talent decisions.
• Deliver strategic workforce and talent insights by translating complex people data into actionable recommendations for HR leaders.
• Create executive‑ready insights and storytelling that clearly communicate workforce risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs.
• Ensure analytic rigor and continuous improvement through strong data science practices, documentation, and model refinement.
• Partner with analytics application developers to design and deliver advanced dashboards and analytics products that enable scalable, self‑service people insights.
• Stakeholder Interaction: Partners closely with HR COEs and leadership (e.g., Talent/Total Rewards/DEI/HRBPs) and cross-functional stakeholders to define questions, interpret results, and drive action.
• Influence/Impact: Ability to influence leaders and decision makers with data through visualization and insights.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Posit, RConnect, RShiny, and GitLab for analytics application development and version control.
• Ability to present complex analytics concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Executive‑ready data storytelling skills, including clear visualizations, narratives, and recommendations.
• Strong analytic rigor and judgment, including data validation, documentation, and continuous improvement of models and methods.
• Stakeholder advising.
• Ability to partner cross‑functionally with HR COEs, Legal/DEI, IS, and people analytics team members to deliver scalable insight solutions.

Experience & Education

• 5+ years related experience
• Bachelors' degree required, Masters degree preferred

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