Are you passionate about generating ideas and hypotheses using large sets of data to ultimately give users the best experience possible? With the support of our talented engineering team you will dive deep into a rich and continually growing dataset. You will provide valuable insights and make recommendations for machine learning driven features and you will be providing groundbreaking functionality within our application that will make a valuable impact on our customer's experience.

Smartsheet is looking for a Data Scientist experienced in the data-driven development life cycle to support our new ML and data-driven feature endeavors. From predictions of customer actions to detecting malicious activity, you are an experienced data scientist that can drive analytics, hypothesis generation, feature engineering and model creation. As a flawless match for our team, you are intellectually curious, have strong analytical skills and have the ability to communicate key insights effectively.

Our business is built on finding top grade talent and getting out of their way while they build and improve our award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) offering for collaborative work and project management. Our software team is small, highly efficient, and results oriented. We are looking for the most highly motivated and driven individuals with a passion for making an impact fast. This position is based at our headquarters in Bellevue, WA.

Job Responsibilities

You will:

• Work with a team of engineers to drive development and productionalization of ML models to be utilized by the Smartsheet application. A team of developers will help deploy successful models into production
• Generate insights on large data sets and define suitable problems to be solved with machine learning techniques. Analyze the data, determine what it means, and generate hypotheses.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to understand company needs and devise possible solutions. There is a research aspect here in that we have a number of hypothesis on what we can do, and we want to continue to add new ideas and pick the best ones.
• Drive data mining, feature engineering and model creation within an agile development environment.
• Improve data collection procedures to include information that is meaningful for building analytic systems. In other words, we have a lot of data already, and we have the freedom to make it better if we want, and developers to do so.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate would have experience in all of the following areas. A successful candidate will likely have a rich subset.

• Data visualization and analysis.
• Advanced statistical techniques and concepts
• Data cleansing and preparation
• Feature engineering
• Experience building highly scalable ML Models that were deployed in production
• Python, SQL
• Open source libraries such as Tensorflow/MXNet/Caffe, SciKit Learn
• Public cloud AWS/GCP/Azure

Education

• Masters in Machine Learning preferred

About Smartsheet

In 2005, Smartsheet was founded on the idea that teams and millions of people worldwide deserve a better way to deliver their very best work. Today, the company delivers a leading cloud-based platform for work execution, empowering organizations to plan, capture, track, automate, and report on work at scale, resulting in more efficient processes and better business outcomes. Smartsheet went public on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2018 and currently enables collaboration, better decision making, and accelerated innovation for over 76,000 domain-based customers in 190 countries, including 96 of the Fortune 100.

Our Culture

Smartsheet is a place where people love what they do and are empowered to do their best work every day. We support one another and achieve our goals as a team, not as individuals. Each person, at every level, gets to have an impact.

Our Values

• Honest: Be truthful and do what is right
• Authentic: Be real and challenge directly
• Driven: Operate with urgency and focus on results
• Innovative: Develop new ideas and think creatively
• Effective: Deliver quality
• Supportive: Be kind and help each other succeed

Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals seeking employment at Smartsheet are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other legally protected category.