Data Scientist / Researcher

HOF Capital

$100K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New York, NY
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years experience as a product-focused data scientist or similar role
  • Degree from a top-tier university in a data science-related field
  • Strong English writing and communication abilities
  • Proven academic and professional excellence
  • Detail-oriented, disciplined, and self-motivated work ethic
  • Collaborative team player with no ego
  • Passionate about supporting transformative tech startups

Responsibilities

  • Build data pipelines and machine learning models for investment sourcing
  • Conduct data-driven market analyses to identify promising opportunities
  • Collect and analyze data for investment due diligence assessments
  • Independently calculate metrics from raw data provided by potential portfolio companies
  • Maintain a centralized database of key metrics for portfolio companies
  • Provide benchmarking data to support portfolio company improvements
  • Author high-quality, data-driven research to establish thought leadership

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible work from home options available
Full Job Description
Due to this rapid growth, HOF Capital is seeking a world-class data scientist to join its team. This Data Scientist / Researcher will collaborate closely with other HOF Capital team members to provide the firm and its portfolio companies with important data-driven insights and to produce high-quality research content that will help drive HOF Capital's impact on the broader tech industry. **Responsibilities:** - Assist with **investment sourcing** by: (1) building data pipelines and machine learning models that enable the scalable evaluation & monitoring of millions of tech companies, tech products, open-source frameworks, and tech talent, in order to identify the most promising ones; and (2) conducting data-driven research & analyses on future market opportunities, in order to identify the most promising ones. - Assist with **investment due diligence** by: (1) collecting the data needed for accurate market & competitive analyses; (2) using raw data dumps from prospective portfolio companies to independently calculate important metrics; and (3) contributing to the technical / product, customer, & competitive due diligence for any investment opportunities related to data science and related fields. - Assisting with **portfolio company value-add** by: (1) maintaining a centralized database of important metrics for each portfolio company; (2) providing portfolio companies with benchmark data to help them identify opportunities for improvement; and (3) advising earlier-stage portfolio companies on the build-out of their data tech stack and data-driven culture. - Assisting with **thought leadership** by authoring high-quality data-driven research content that positions HOF Capital as a thought leader in the tech industry. **Minimum qualifications:** - 3 - 5 years of previous full-time work experience as a product-focused data scientist or similar role. - Graduated from or currently enrolled at a top-tier university, ideally with a degree or major related to data science. - Strong English writing & communication skills. - Excellent professional & academic performance. - Independent thinker with outstanding intellectual & analytical aptitude. - Extremely capable, disciplined, responsible, hard-working, detail-oriented, conscientious, and self-motivated. - Team player with no ego. - Innate desire to become the best in the world at this role. - Genuine passion for finding and supporting technology startups that have the potential to become generational category-defining companies. **The ideal candidate should be excited to:** - Have a real impact on the world by applying data science to VC and tech startups (many of which will be among the world's most important companies in the long term). - Play an important multi-faceted role in HOF Capital's investment process. - Help drive HOF Capital's impact on the broader tech industry through the production of high-quality data-driven research content. - Develop expertise in the technologies & business models within HOF Capital's areas of interest (e.g., AI, enterprise software, deep tech, etc.). - Do whatever it takes to help HOF Capital and its portfolio companies become leaders in their respective markets. **Compensation:** - Competitive salary + bonus + benefits. **Work schedule** - 12 hour shift - Weekend availability - Monday to Friday - On call - Holidays - Overtime **Supplemental pay** - Bonus pay **Benefits** - Paid time off - Health insurance - Dental insurance - Vision insurance Flexible work from home options available.

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