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Data Scientist

Neara

Neara

Data Science
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Nov 29, 2024

Neara is a high-growth, venture-backed, Series-C tech company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Recognised as one of the Times 100 Most Influential Companies of 2024, our vision is to change how the world operates, builds, and designs critical infrastructure. We work with 75% of the utilities in Australia and New Zealand and are rapidly expanding across the US and Europe. Our mission is to revolutionise the utilities industry with our 3D digital network model, enabling utilities to future-proof their infrastructure and navigate the clean energy transition.

As a Senior Data Scientist at Neara you’ll contribute to the organisation becoming more data driven by diving into the problem spaces, defining key metrics, gathering data, building rigorous statistical models to help derive insights and trends. You will then effectively communicate these results to the organisation to in order to drive product and engineering direction and prioritisation.

For example, you will work with the digitisation team to derive insights such as process bottlenecks, outlier detection and root causes, correctness of outputs, forecasting completion timeframes, attributing changes in tools/ai models to downstream business metrics, and experimental analysis on new models.

This scope of your impact will be organisation-wide with similar insights required in the sales pipeline, customer interactions with the application and even working with clients to provide similar insights into their own networks modelled by Neara.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

  • Extending data literacy across the organisation through your ownership of org metrics and creating intuitive ways to display this information for the organisation.

  • Coordinating with engineering to build data pipelines to support the metrics and dashboards as well as instrumenting new data streams if the current data is insufficient.

  • Finding insights into the digitisation workflow, identifying process bottlenecks, outlier detection as well as forecasting completion times and attribution of improvements in the digitisation workflow.

  • Developing statistical models to extract insights in a continuous manner and keeping the model quality high and reliable.

  • Supporting Sales in identifying insights into their sales pipeline as well as customer behaviour through various channels.

  • Consulting with clients to identify the insights they want from their own networks and support the development of this analysis in our product.

WHAT YOU BRING

  • Demonstrable experience in data science or analytical roles and experience contributing to strategies around data platforms.

  • Experience with end to end instrumentation and analysing interactions of new products

  • Experience running experiments and building dashboards to communicate results to non technical stakeholders.

  • Foundational coding skill (Python, SQL) with an interest in working in a strong engineering culture.

  • Experience with spatial and geospatial data is highly regarded.

  • Experience with attribution and causal analysis is highly regarded.

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Competitive salary

  • Meaningful ESOP

  • Fully Flexible Work Environment. We have a fully stocked office (and impressive snack collection) in Redfern.

  • Regular office events

  • The real benefit is working on a genuinely complex, innovative and industry leading product making a genuine difference in the world around us