Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. North is hiring a Data Scientist for its Commitments team. The role analyzes cloud usage forecasts, coverage targets, and purchase recommendations; quantifies risk and savings; and partners with engineers and product teams to improve and measure recommendation quality.

Responsibilities

• Analyze how usage forecasts become coverage targets and purchase recommendations, and work with Commitments engineers on how to improve them
• Quantify risk and expected savings for each recommendation so customers and our team can trust the numbers
• Analyze commitment performance across customers to find where our approach works and where it doesn't
• Work with engineers to turn your findings into product changes, and measure their impact
• Define how we measure recommendation quality, and report on it in terms the business understands
• Explain your methods and results clearly to engineers, product, and customer-facing teams

Skills

• 4+ years of experience as a data scientist, where your analysis shaped product or business decisions
• Strong foundation in statistics, with experience turning forecasts into decisions
• Fluency in Python and SQL, and comfort working with large, messy usage and billing datasets
• Experience with optimization or decision-making under uncertainty
• Experience working closely with engineers and product, and turning complex analysis into practical recommendations
• Clear writing, and the ability to explain uncertainty to people who need to make a decision
• Pragmatic, informed use of AI tools to speed up analysis and coding
• Experience with cloud pricing, reserved instances, savings plans, or committed use discounts
• Background in finance, pricing, or risk modeling
• Experience with machine learning methods
• Experience designing experiments or causal analyses to measure the impact of changes
• Experience working with large datasets on AWS
• Familiarity with FinOps concepts

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave; birthing parents receive an additional 4 weeks at 50% pay
• Two company-wide breaks per year: one around Labor Day and one at the end of the year
• Aetna Medical PPO plan with the majority of the premium covered by North
• Dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account (FSA) for health expenses and commuter benefits
• 30 day sabbatical every 4 years
• Hybrid role based in New York City, with an office in Dumbo, Brooklyn; team members typically work in the office 2–3 days per week, or remote in the US

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