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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Growth Data Scientist - **Company:** FAIRSQUARE, INC. - **Location:** Orlando, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $170,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Business Software, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Cleansing, R (Programming Language), Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Salesforce.Com, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Git, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Data Management, Software Version Control, Programming Languages - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=efea8bb7518a5ed6 ## About the Role * 5+ years' experience of equivalent combination of education and experience. * Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or related discipline required. * Experience mentoring others data scientists. * Experience working with building, deploying, and maintaining recommendation systems and models in a live environment. * Fluency in programming languages such as R, Python, SQL. * Understanding and application of supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis methods. * Proficiency in working with SQL databases. * Strong programming practices utilizing version control systems (e.g. Git). * Demonstrated machine learning experience. * Experience with cloud technology (AWS) a plus. * Experience in FinTech/Credit space a plus. * Attention to detail. * Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. * Experience with Tableau and/or Salesforce preferred. ## Description A Growth Data Scientist is responsible for overseeing the collection, storage, and interpretation of data for the business in order to provide meaningful insights about how to improve business operations and performance. General duties include partnering with organizational and department leaders to identify key data points, align data definitions, create organized data repositories, compare data points to current company processes, and write reports detailing business behavior, predictions and/or proposals. Data Scientists apply data science techniques across various domains, such as marketing, credit risk, and sales. Major Responsibilities: * Engage stakeholders to understand business problems and requirements; * Manipulate structured and unstructured datasets from disparate data sources; * Perform data preprocessing, integration, cleansing, descriptive analysis and visualization; * Perform exploratory data analysis, ad-hoc analysis, and root cause analysis; identify data issues and communicate with data owners; * Develop models and algorithms to automate and improve business decisions; * Identify and test hypotheses, ensuring statistical significance, as part of building predictive models for business application; * Monitor and analyze model performance for validation and troubleshooting of issues that may arise; * Provide consultation to business leaders and other stakeholders on how to leverage analytics insights and build strategies around analytics; * Participate in R&D work to further advance the analytics platform; * Contribute to improving the overall analytic capabilities of the team; and * Other duties as assigned., * Positive, energetic, passionate, business casual environment with management who are committed to your success. * We're committed to fostering talent and providing opportunities for personal and professional growth. * Health insurance for you and your family, matching 401K retirement plans, and education stipends. * Numerous employee events throughout the year, including our annual traditions such as a Day at the Del Mar Racetrack, Holiday Party, Concerts & Sporting Events and more. ## Related Videos - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [How We Built a Machine Learning-Based Recommendation System (And Survived to Tell the Tale)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/752-how-we-built-a-machine-learning-based-recommendation-system-and-survived-to-tell-the-tale) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) - [Branch your database like your code: How schema changes and pull requests go hand in hand](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/350-branch-your-database-like-your-code-how-schema-changes-and-pull-requests-go-hand-in-hand) ## Related Articles - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [How to start an AI project for a good cause and boost your career](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/15-how-to-start-an-ai-project-for-a-good-cause-and-boost-your-career) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk)