Data Science Consultant

AIFund•Mountain View, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

DeepLearning.AI is seeking a short-term Data Science Consultant to work directly with their COO and business unit leaders. The role involves translating business questions into metrics, analyzing data, and building a durable data foundation. The consultant will collaborate closely with the COO and data team, using tools like SQL, dbt, and Python to generate value quickly and iteratively build data architecture. The goal is to answer business questions, create usable dashboards and analyses, and develop robust data models and transformations.

Requirements

3+ years of experience as a data scientist.
Strong analytical instinct.
Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into well-defined metrics.
Judgment to know which questions are actually worth answering.
AI-native builder, leveraging latest tools and AI-assisted coding.
Hands-on with SQL and Python.
Comfortable doing real EDA.
Engineering chops to collaborate with data engineers and make sound calls about data modeling, naming, and transformation layer design.
Comfortable asking questions, making suggestions and pushing back in executive meetings.
Practical bias - natural tendency to close projects and answer questions iteratively.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with platforms and data sources such as Stripe, HubSpot, PostHog, customer.io, Google Analytics.

Responsibilities

Translate ambiguous business questions into well-defined metrics.
Perform Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to answer business questions.
Ship dashboards or analyses for stakeholders.
Build out data models, naming conventions, and pipeline pieces to support metrics durably.
Collaborate with the COO and data team on SQL, dbt, and Python.
Define metrics precisely.
Ask questions, make suggestions, and push back in executive meetings.
Iteratively close projects and answer questions.