About the Role
Alliance is seeking a Data Scientist to join their in-house engineering team. This role involves owning features from definition to production, working directly with stakeholders, and turning ambiguous questions into actionable insights and production systems.
Responsibilities
- Own data science and analytics end-to-end, turning ambiguous questions into analysis, models, internal tools, and production systems.
- Build production Python systems for data collection, enrichment, scoring, and AI-assisted research.
- Develop and improve predictive models, including feature definition, experiment design, and production releases.
- Write SQL and own reporting, including dashboards, recurring reports, and investigations.
- Transform messy data into understandable and actionable decisions for investing, portfolio support, operations, and growth.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, explain findings, and iterate based on usage.
Requirements
- Senior, self-directed data scientist or analytics engineer capable of taking a loosely defined business problem through to a production-quality answer.
- Deep experience with Python and SQL.
- Comfortable working across notebooks, application code, APIs, and Metabase.
- Strong applied modeling judgment, including feature design, evaluation, missing data, leakage, calibration, and interpretability.
- Sufficient data engineering depth to ship own work, including building pipelines, integrating APIs, debugging source data, and maintaining production workflows.
- Clear communicator with good product judgment, able to work with non-technical stakeholders.
- Extremely high-agency, entrepreneurial, and self-driven.
- Comfortable using modern AI tools and LLMs for analysis, enrichment, evaluation, and automation.
- NYC-based or willing to relocate.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data Science
- Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Data Engineering
- Communication
- Product Judgment
- AI Tools
- LLMs
Location
- NYC
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Alliance is the leading accelerator for crypto & AI founders.
- Since 2020, Alliance has backed 300+ startups, now collectively valued at $15B+.
- Alliance is backed by S-tier investors including Initialized Capital, Founders Fund, Multicoin, and Dragonfly, along with notable angels.
- The team consists of individuals with backgrounds from Meta, WhatsApp, Coinbase, YC, and previous startup founders.
- Alliance startups are reinventing industries and improving lives.
