Full-Time Senior Data Scientist
Job Description
SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST
Harmony Labs helps people channel the immense power of story to shape our future and, ultimately, create media that support healthy, democratic culture. In the last year, we’ve built a Narrative Observatory that harnesses powerful industry relationships and an academic research network to deliver content creators insight into values-based audiences, story risks and opportunities as they come and go in culture, and the narrative structure of media. At the core of the Narrative Observatory are opt-in internet and television panels touching 300,000+ Americans and offering a minute-by-minute view into the content they care about, wherever they consume or create it. To these data, we join terabytes of text content data across online news, TV news, entertainment TV, advertising, social media, and music, as well as public opinion survey.
We’re looking for someone with 5 to 7 years of experience, eager to put big data to work improving our media systems. If you are that person, you will have a strong background in a quantitative or social science field, and programming skills. (We use R and Python here.) You will have at least three years of professional experience working on a team that includes both technical and non-technical experts. And you will be passionate about translating big, messy data into products that are actually useful to people making strategic decisions or creative content. Also, you will be comfortable with and capable of working well in a fully remote organization, within distributed, interdisciplinary teams.
The SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST will take on the following roles and responsibilities:
- Answer questions about audience, story, and narrative using very big data about media consumption and media content
- Translate questions about the world into plans for analyzing data using statistics and machine learning
- Work with the data science team to implement those plans, using R or Python
- Create actionable insights and accessible reports to help storytellers tell stories that reach and move the right audiences
It would also be cool if you:
- Have worked with media data before
- Have conducted research with or for communicators, advocates, culture makers, or artists
Compensation commensurate with experience, in the range of $125,000 – $150,000. Fully remote workplace. Employer-paid medical, vision, and dental insurance benefits. Unlimited paid time off, which everyone is encouraged to use. 12 weeks paid parental leave. 401k with contribution matching.
How to Apply
How to Apply
Please email a cover letter and resume to jobs@harmonylabs.org. Due to the number of emails we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to each one.
Broad perspectives and diverse experiences are key to serving society, and innovating in a way that responds to our complex, interdependent global context. While Harmony Labs employs only United States citizens and those non-U.S. citizens authorized to work in the United States, in compliance with national regulations, we strongly encourage people from backgrounds currently underrepresented in tech, non-profit development, and data science to apply. And we look forward to welcoming the best candidate to our team regardless of their national origin, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.
About Harmony LABS
Harmony Labs is a New York City-based 501(c)3 that has evolved from nearly a decade of research and prototyping, in partnership with and/or funded by leading organizations like Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, The Ford Foundation, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, MTV, and Columbia University.
We’ve worked on climate, gun violence, political corruption, artificial intelligence, and other issues, and recently reported on LatinX and Black online audiences. The outputs we’ve created with partners include websites, presentations, peer-reviewed publications, white papers, toolkits, curriculum, insights decks, and media. Our work has been covered in the press, like in this Wired article.
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