Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Compassion International is seeking an Applied Data Scientist III to turn their backlog of AI use cases into scalable, production-ready solutions. This role involves hands-on technical work and strategy, focusing on model development, system design, and operationalization in AWS, while also promoting AI adoption and best practices across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer
- Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur
- Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors
- Develops, analyzes, and models operational, program, marketing, or other organizational data to analyze the competitive performance of Compassion's business segments
- Develops innovative strategies, quantifies the competitive performance of the organization's operations and/or markets. Further evaluates potential operational changes, and designs new approaches and data methodologies accordingly
- Performs exploratory data analysis to understand relationships, opportunities to influence outcomes and how to attribute cross-channel outcomes. Further develops proofs of concept to verify ideas and closes the loop to make sure that the proposed solution is performing as it should and is correctly understood by clients
- Translates complex analytical and technical concepts for non-technical team members to enable understanding and drive informed business decisions and AI adoption
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to act as an AI evangelist—guiding non-technical teams, influencing adoption, and promoting best practices across the organization
- Strong ability to quantify impact, including cost savings, ROI, and prioritization of high-value use cases
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders and translating technical concepts into clear, actionable items and insights
- Strong hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning models end-to-end in production environments
- Proven ability to perform exploratory data analysis and select appropriate algorithms based on business outcomes and data characteristics
- Hands-on experience with AWS (especially SageMaker) for model development, deployment, and orchestration
- Experience working with modern data platforms such as Snowflake and enterprise data warehouses
- Ability to consolidate and operationalize multiple siloed use cases into standardized, scalable solutions
- Seven years Relevant experience working in the Data field
Benefits
- Receive generous paid time off
- 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary
- Excellent healthcare coverage
- Free short-term professional counseling
Company Overview
A Christian child sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world. It was founded in 1952, and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.compassion.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Compassion International has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.