Data Scientist

About Middesk

Middesk enables every business to access the products and services they need to grow and thrive. If we can make it easy for a business to access financial products, hire new employees, and transact with other businesses, then we increase the odds of success for that business.

Our products provide accurate and complete information for financial services companies and make it easy for employers to establish their business with state and federal entities.

Our customers include Shopify, Affirm, Brex, Plaid, Mercury, Divvy, Rippling, Gusto, and others.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Middesk is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Y Combinator.

The role

• The Middesk Data Science team delivers world-class Data Products that empower our customers and internal teams to make decisions that accelerate the growth in B2B transactions in our economy.

• As one of the few founding Data Scientists at Middesk, you will have the opportunity to shape the culture, technical vision and product direction of the company by leveraging your ability to drive effective decisions with first-principles thinking and data-driven insights.

• As a high-potential talent who will be able to scale with a rapidly growing Middesk, we are excited for you to step up to build teams and/or lead initiatives in the future.

What you'll achieve

• As one of the founding Data Scientists, you will get your hands dirty in building the most impactful Data Products that our customers and internal teams across Finance, Operations, Product and Revenue need to inform/productionize their most critical decisions.

  • Data Products include, but are not limited to, data models and ETL pipelines, reporting dashboards, business and product impact sizing, decision/ROI/trade-off frameworks, ML-based classification/lead scoring models

• You will also partner closely with our functional and production leaders to align on goals, identify opportunities in our current state, as well as define scalable tools and processes that facilitate hypothesis-driven problem-solving and analytically-rigorous decision-making at Middesk.

• You will develop, prioritize, execute and iterate rapidly on a roadmap of initiatives that deliver value to customers.

• You will be an important part of building out a function from 0 to 1 and help decide its culture, processes, and identity within the broader organization.

What you’ve accomplished

• Skill in building impactful Data Products: Regardless of preferred tools/technology stack, you have 2+ years experience in a quantitative role (it doesn’t have to be at a tech company!) and demonstrated your ability to prioritize and ship high-quality Data Products that influenced/productionized impactful decisions for customers/stakeholders.

• Adept at problem-solving: You are able to reason through customer problems from first-principles to quickly develop and test high-impact solutions that address customer needs.

• Excellent communications skills: You are able to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audience, including executives and customers.

• Effective leader in a team environment: You understand the collaborative nature of this work and are able to effectively influence stakeholders in a cross-functional environment; you have a proven track record in raising and maintaining the bar for both team culture and quality of deliverables.

Traits we value

• Customer-centricity. Ruthlessly prioritizes what the customer (both internal and external) needs, and not whatever is deemed to be “technically interesting” or flashy.

• Owner mindset. Does whatever it takes to drive impact, even if that means doing things which are typically not expected of a DS in another company.

• Analytical integrity. Seeks and effectively communicates the truth to drive better outcomes, even when it’s uncomfortable and hard.

Why you'll love it here

• Customer First: We stay energized by solving real customer problems and make each interaction meaningful and embrace the challenging path to help our customers succeed.

• Be an owner: We identify and tackle problems, take pride in our work, and measure impact. When we find an opportunity to improve the status quo, take it on!

• Act with urgency and purpose: We move quickly and simplify things as we go. We solve the problems that we have today in ways that allow us to move even faster in the future.

• Drive results together: We choose teamwork. We share our opinions, ask questions, understand where others are coming from, and move forward as a unified front.

• Embrace the journey: We dream big and are open to taking risks. Innovation happens through optimism, positivity, rigorous thinking, and hard work.

Middesk is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. As an equal opportunity employer; we’re committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

We are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If any accommodations are needed during the interview process, please let us know by contacting careers@middesk.com.