Junior Data Scientist Job Description Sample Template

JOB TITLE:

  • Junior Data Scientist

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Maintain models and projections for cannabis retail sales.
  • Developing QC/QA techniques for disparate data sources.
  • Integrating retail sales data across disparate markets to enable comparisons.
  • Implementing QC/QA techniques in production systems.
  • Work hand-in-hand with technology team members to utilize available technologies.
  • Respond to client data quality questions.
  • Support the Product team through ad hoc analyses, capabilities overviews, and prototyping.
  • Work with a variety of data science tools and programming languages.

EXPERIENCE and QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Degree in data science, statistics, economics, or a similar field (experience may be substituted for educational requirements).
  • Expertise with Python and R Studio.
  • Expertise with data visualization software such as Power BI.
  • Experience analyzing and solving CPG-focused challenges including but not limited to forecasting, projections, assortment, innovation planning, pricing elasticity, etc.
  • Experience in the cannabis industry.
  • Web scraping.
  • Unstructured text analysis.
  • ML/AI prototyping.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

  • While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear via electronic devices (ie. computer, monitor, microphone, video, etc.) 
  • The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers to operate a computer keyboard and mouse. 
  • Specific vision abilities required by this position include reading and viewing information on a computer monitor.