Sr. Data Scientist

Who we are?
Outplay is building the future of sales engagement, a solution that helps sales teams personalize at scale while consistently staying on message and on task, through true multi-channel outreach including email, phone, SMS, chat and social media. Outplay is the only tool your sales team will ever need to crush their goals. Funded by Sequoia - Headquartered in the US. Sequoia not only led a $2 million seed round in Outplay early this year, but also followed with $7.3 million Series - A recently. The team is spread remotely all over the globe.

Perks of being an Outplayer :
• Fully remote job - You can be on the mountains or at the beach, and still work with us. Outplay is a 100% remote company.
• Flexible work hours - We believe mental health is way more important than a 9-5 job.
• Health Insurance - We are a family, and we take care of each other - we provide medical insurance coverage to all employees and their family members. We also provide an additional benefit of doctor consultation along with the insurance plan. 
• Annual company retreat - we work hard, and we party harder.
• Best tools - we buy you the best tools of the trade
• Celebrations - No, we never forget your birthday or anniversary (be it work or wedding) and we never leave an opportunity to celebrate milestones and wins.
• Safe space to innovate and experiment
• Steady career growth and job security

About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help research, develop and advance the charter of AI at Outplay and push the threshold of conversational intelligence.

Job description :
• Lead AI initiatives that dissects data for creating new feature prototypes and minimum viable products
• Conduct product research in natural language processing, conversation intelligence, and virtual assistant technologies
• Use independent judgment to enhance product by using existing data and building AI/ML models
• Collaborate with teams, provide technical guidance to colleagues and come up with new ideas for rapid prototyping. Convert prototypes into scalable and efficient products.
• Work closely with multiple teams on projects using textual and voice data to build conversational intelligence
• Prototype and demonstrate AI augmented capabilities in the product for customers
• Conduct experiments to assess the precision and recall of language processing modules and study the effect of such experiments on different application areas of sales
• Assist business development teams in the expansion and enhancement of a feature pipeline to support short and long-range growth plans
• Identify new business opportunities and prioritize pursuits of AI for different areas of conversational intelligence
• Build reusable and scalable solutions for use across a varied customer base
• Participate in long range strategic planning activities designed to meet the company’s objectives and revenue goals

Required Skills :
• Bachelors or Masters in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research or related field with focus on applied Machine Learning, AI, NLP and data-driven statistical analysis & modelling.
• 4+ years of experience applying AI/ML/NLP/Deep Learning/ data-driven statistical analysis & modelling solutions to multiple domains. Experience in the Sales and Marketing domain is a plus.
• Experience in building Natural Language Processing (NLP), Conversational Intelligence, and Virtual Assistants based features.
• Excellent grasp on programming languages like Python. Experience in GoLang would be a plus.
• Proficient in analysis using python packages like Pandas, Plotly, Numpy, Scipy, etc.
• Strong and proven programming skills in machine learning and deep learning with experience in frameworks such as TensorFlow/Keras, Pytorch, Transformers, Spark etc
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex solutions to stakeholders across multiple disciplines.
• Experience in SQL, RDBMS, Data Management and Cloud Computing (AWS and/or Azure) is a plus.
• Extensive experience of training and deploying different Machine Learning models
• Experience in monitoring deployed models to proactively capture data drifts, low performing models, etc.
• Exposure to Deep Learning, Neural Networks or related fields
• Passion for solving AI/ML problems for both textual and voice data.
• Fast learner, with great written and verbal communication skills, and be able to work independently as
well as in a team environment