At Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), we’ve been hiring friends since 1937—people who share our passion for helping customers feel right at home. If you share our vision, we invite you to be one of us! People love working here! Named one of Furniture Today’s Best places to work, and here a few reasons why: A FUN, stable work environment, with no layoffs in our history. A safe place to work and shop, development opportunities leading you to the career of your dreams and a culture that encourages volunteering and serving our communities.Pay Range: $65,266-106,850.00 annuallyJob Description: Your Piece of the Puzzle As NFM’s Data Scientist you will utilize data mining techniques, statistical analysis, and build high quality prediction systems integrated with our products to support Nebraska Furniture Mart Marketing operations, sales and leadership.This is a remote position requiring the candidate to reside in one of the following states: NE, IA, MO, KS or TX.Job Duties: A Day in the Life - Unravel: Verify the integrity of data used for analyzing and engineering data features for building and optimizing machine learning models
- Be Precise: Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building
- Be the Expert: Identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions by proposing solutions and strategies to business challenges: Utilize predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes
- Play Your Part: Report information using data visualization techniques and performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
Your work will directly with the Marketing Team to impact our ability to help people create a lifestyle they love, for the people they love—because that’s what we love.Qualifications: Can You Check These Boxes? - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field required. Master Degree preferred
- Excellent understanding of supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques and algorithms: regression, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, clustering, decision trees, neural networks, etc
- Experience with common data science and statistical toolkits and platforms, to include R, Weka, Python, SPSS and SAS
- Strong applied math skills in a variety of areas, namely statistics and liner algebra
- Familiarity with operations research and optimization techniques
- Experience with professional data visualization and reporting tools, such as Tableau, QlikView, PowerBI
- Proven experience using data visualization tools such as D3.js, GGplot, and Matplotlib
- Proficiency in using SQL
- Understanding of NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase
- Exposure to cloud-based analytical and data engineering services in Azure, AWS or Cloudera
- Excellent applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc
- Strong scripting and programming skills in Python, Powershell, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, etc
- Ability to work nights, weekends and/or early morning hours based on business needs
- Pre-employment screening includes, but isn’t limited to, criminal background check
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the USA on a full-time basis. NFM will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
Benefits: What’s in It for You?As a full-time member of our NFM Family, you will enjoy: - Same day pay - access to your earned pay on-demand, when you need it the most
- Competitive pay - generous annual increases up to 7%
- Inclusive culture – Because everyone who works or shops at NFM should feel right at home
- Health, dental, vision, life Insurance, short and long term disability
- Paid holidays (upon hire) and paid time off (after 90 days)
- Staff discount on merchandise (Collectively, NFM staff have saved almost $2 million on purchases in the last 12 months)
- Virtual and in-person career development opportunities at all levels
- Paid community volunteer opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
- You’ll start saving for your retirement immediately in NFM’s 401(k) and you’re eligible for company match after one year. NFM’s 401(k) also offers Berkshire Stock as an investment option
Nebraska Furniture Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer
