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We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist to partner with multidisciplinary Visualization Solutions teams to define and evolve product analytics and applied AI practices. This role brings data science into day-to-day product engineering, from instrumentation and experimentation through advanced analytics and machine learning. You will work on complex, high-scale problems and turn product and platform data into systems and insights that directly shape visualization performance, adoption, and customer experience.
This role reports to the Director, Experience Design, IGS Visualization Solutions.
Responsibilities
- Drive business and product planning through insights on product usage, adoption, feature utilization, performance, and reliability.
- Design and implement robust data models and schemas aligned to product and platform needs.
- Audit existing product, platform, and data systems for completeness and accuracy, and strengthen instrumentation to enable reliable, decision-ready analytics.
- Build and optimize scalable data pipelines and architectures, including cloud-based ETL processes and large-scale data structures for analytics and machine learning.
- Develop processes to ingest, transform, and distribute data into internal systems and applications.
- Partner with engineering and platform teams to[DD1]identify and resolve data quality issues.
- Create dashboards, analyses, and experimentation frameworks that translate raw data into clear recommendations.
- Provide rigorous ad hoc analysis to support strategic and operational decisions.
- Communicate findings clearly to cross-functional stakeholders and senior leaders.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor27s or advanced degree in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics, or related field.
- Significant experience in data science, advanced analytics, or business analytics roles.
- Strong expertise in SQL and working with complex, large-scale datasets across multiple sources.
- Proficiency with analytics and BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, Splunk, Mixpanel, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Python or R for statistical analysis and data processing.
- Hands-on experience with big data and cloud-based data environments such as AWS, Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, or similar technologies.
- Strong systems thinking / Experience building analytics foundations in complex environments.
- Ability to collect, structure, analyze, and interpret large volumes of data with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, actionable way.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in data mining, large-scale analytics, or machine learning in production environments.
- Experience applying AI or advanced analytics to 3D data, graphics systems, simulation outputs, or complex design and engineering workflows.
- Experience supporting real-time or interactive applications with data-driven systems.
- Proven ability to frame ambiguous problems, generate insight, and establish a clear point of view that influences direction.
- Strong systems thinking / Experience building analytics foundations in complex environments.
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