Senior Associate, Insights Data Science

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WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a member of the growing Insights Data Science team in Bain's Advanced Analytics Group, you will:
- Work with the world's leading companies to drive impactful business change, as well as societal change through pro bono efforts
- Collaborate closely with business consulting staff and client leaders as part of multi-disciplinary teams to assess opportunities and develop data-driven solutions for Bain clients across a variety of sectors
- Understand business problems, translate them into data science projects and appropriately prioritize and execute
- Create business insights via storytelling using appropriate descriptive, exploratory, and predictive techniques covering both statistical and machine learning approaches
- Keep abreast of new and current insights data science techniques and technologies
- Share learnings and drive adoption of best-demonstrated practices with your teammates in AAG about theoretical and technical developments in the rapidly evolving data science field, and work together to create a best-in-class working environment that attracts other great data scientists
- Innovate and develop intellectual property to continue setting the standard for insights data science
ABOUT YOU
**We are looking for someone who has**:
- Advanced Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Math, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or Economics
- 1-3 years of experience in data science and/or analytics
- Expertise in Python or R required
- Proficiency in SQL required
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss analytic approaches both visually and verbally with a combination of technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to innovate in highly ambiguous and dynamic situations
- Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams, as well as people across a wide variety of disciplines and industries
- Deep statistical foundation and knowledge of statistical learning theory (e.g. hypothesis testing, ANOVA, probability, maximum likelihood techniques, Bayesian methods)
- Experience with supervised and unsupervised modeling techniques in a variety of problem spaces (e.g. time series analysis, spatial analytics, network analytics)
- Passion for staying abreast of advancements in Machine Learning that have direct impact on Insights and data-centric business strategy
- Comfort with mixing data science techniques and 80/20 heuristics
- Ability to work independently and juggle priorities to thrive in a fast-paced environment, while also collaborating as part of a team in complex situations
- Travel is required (likely 30%).
It will typically be a hybrid working style at home, in the office, and at the client site.
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