Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Attentive is an AI marketing platform that focuses on 1:1 personalization to enhance brand and customer connections. The role of Senior Data Scientist involves transforming data into actionable insights and developing machine learning models to improve messaging strategies. This position also requires collaboration with various teams to drive business value and influence decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of statistical, econometric, optimization, and machine learning models for a range of applications in our messaging and AI product offerings
- Design and execute experiments, interpret results, and draw actionable conclusions
- Use data to understand product performance, identify improvement opportunities, and define product/team roadmaps
- Present findings to senior leadership to inform and influence business decisions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, client services, and sales to drive business value from ideation to production
Skills
- Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields
- Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, economics, and analytics
- Knowledge of experimental design and analysis
- Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development
- Ability to use Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets
- Advanced proficiency in SQL
- 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent
- Familiarity with advanced statistical inference, experimentation, and causal inference methods
- Econometric experience with pricing and promotion optimization
- Expertise in customer lifetime value modeling
- Experience in personalization systems and cross-sectional cohort modeling
- Background in operations research (e.g., scheduling or assignment problems)
- Knowledge of advanced topics in XGBoost modeling
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
- Health & wellness
Company Overview
Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates businesses with AI powered SMS and e-mail marketing solutions. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://attentive.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Attentive has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 9 in 2026, 32 in 2025, 21 in 2024, 9 in 2023, 8 in 2022, 8 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.