Senior Statistician

Develop and deliver educational content on statistics, including webinars, blog posts, white papers, and public speaking engagements.

Simplify complex statistical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences to promote understanding of experimentation best practices.

Represent Optimizely at conferences and industry events, showcasing expertise in experimental design and statistical analysis.

Conduct customer calls to explain how statistical accuracy is maintained across Optimizely’s experimentation products.

Triage and resolve customer inquiries related to statistical inference and experimentation methodologies.

Assist customers in designing statistically valid experiments tailored to their needs and objectives.

Partner with sales, customer success and onboarding teams to offer statistical expertise during customer onboarding and key engagements.

Serve as a statistical advocate within the organization, fostering a culture of rigorous data-driven decision-making.

Collaborate with marketing teams to showcase Optimizely’s statistical capabilities in external communications.

3+ years of industry or educating experience with experimentation, data science, analytics, etc.

Understanding of and ability to explain experimentation, randomized control trials, and inference, particularly aspects of high throughput testing such as multiple hypothesis testing, sequential testing, reinforcement learning, robustness, data mining of experiments

Demonstrable experience of at least one of the following subjects: 1. Classical statistical inference (fixed horizon tests, sequential tests); 2. Bayesian statistical inference; 3. Causal inference (potential outcome framework, randomized controlled trials, observational studies) and experiment design; 4. Reinforcement learning (e.g., multiarmed bandit).

Demonstrable working experience of python and SQL, (knowing R is also helpful).

Experience collaborating on applied statistical research or designing commercial statistical features/applications

Experience with AI applications

Advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science or a closely related field such as bioinformatics, econometrics, economics or applied mathematics

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