Senior Data Scientist, ASE iCloud Data Organization [Product Strategy]
Apple
Product, Data Science
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Jan 31, 2025
Summary
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Role Number:200581992
Would you like to drive the future of Apple’s products, applications, and platform while having the unique opportunity to impact some of the most far-reaching software in the world? The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization leads the development and innovation on Apple’s cloud-centric products and experiences for users all over the world, including iCloud+, Photos, Mail, Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Notes, etc. We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the products that our customers love. Our multi-disciplinary data team plays a fundamental role in this mission by partnering closely with product, engineering, and business teams to develop a culture of leveraging data to inform and craft our strategy.
Description
We are looking for someone with a track record in extracting and synthesizing insights into narratives that shape strategy and influence product direction. This role partners closely with business and product teams across ASE. Work includes: - Connect with and advocate to a wide audience of engineers, managers and executives to influence decisions. - Craft the narrative for iCloud performance — identify and elevate key insights, and develop scalable approaches for summarizing complex results into an accessible format. - Collaborate with partners and Data Engineering to define metrics that we will measure our efforts against as well as defining the instrumentation required for yielding sufficient data. - Extract information from structured and unstructured data. - Perform exploratory data analyses and use statistics techniques to identify key areas of opportunity and new questions to pursue. - Plan, design, and analyze A/B tests or experiment results. - Build models to forecast growth, capacity requirements, etc.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years in an analytics or data science role.
- Strong product sense as demonstrated by experience influencing or driving product strategy.
- Experience driving alignment across different stakeholders who may at times have strong and diametrically opposed views by leveraging data and decision frameworks - a hybrid between a data scientist and a product manager.
- You have excellent verbal and written communications skills and experience communicating technical concepts to senior executive audiences in order to influence decisions with data.
- You think about data in terms of statistical distributions and have a big enough analytics toolbox (e.g. Statistics, Machine Learning) to know how to find patterns in data, identify targets for performance, and identify sources of variance about those targets.
- You use good judgment balancing art and science when visually communicating information (e.g. Tableau, Superset, ggplot).
- You have engineered information out of massive and complex datasets (e.g. Hive, Spark, Druid).
- You have proven experience in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, R, Scala) and are comfortable developing code in a team environment (e.g., git, notebooks, testing).
- You are self-motivated and curious with proven creative and critical thinking capabilities and a highly developed aim to improve how things work.
- You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You find a way through. You anticipate. You connect and synthesize.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Your academic background is in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Physics, and etc. Advanced degree preferred.
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Pay & Benefits
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