Data Scientist

MARKETview Education Partners is seeking bright, talented, and motivated applicants for a data science / machine learning role on our data and analytics team. The data scientist will join an established data science team and will be a critical contributor to a fast-growing, early-stage education technology business. This role has the added benefit of supporting a team of experienced higher education enrollment professionals who leverage a unique database, and where the business is making a substantial investment in artificial intelligence.

This role will serve colleges and universities with modeling, analysis, and forecasting that help institutions better understand their position and control their destiny in a rapidly changing nonprofit higher education marketplace.

Responsibilities:

• Learn to operate and maintain internal packages, modeling pipelines, and general data science infrastructure / products.
• Create, deliver, interpret, and diagnose predictive models for external clients. Talk through implications of modeling output and proposed actions with internal teams.
• Participate in road-mapping machine learning workflows, developing applications and planning development sprints.
• Develop AI agents that diagnose, interpret, and generate recommendations from data and machine learning systems.
• Relays insights to non-technical members of the team to inform business decisions and investment.

Minimum Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in a STEM discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of LLM's and the use of LLM's as coding assistants.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in data science, statistics, computational mathematics, or adjacent disciplines.
• Work experience in data analysis, statistical modeling, and/or machine learning.
• Experience with a cloud-based environment (Azure / Databricks preferred).
• Demonstrated competence in developing AI agents.

Bonus Points:

• Experience working in higher education.

Why MARKETview Education Partners?

The MARKETview team is united by a common passion to increase higher education access while improving the performance of colleges and universities and the educational outcomes for students and families. This is the spirit that drives every client partner relationship, as we serve the mission of each with an unwavering commitment to their goals and success. We are looking for equally passionate team members with a similar disposition and willingness to put the success of others - partners and teammates - before their own. If this is you, you'll fit right in.

Job Type: Full-time, on-site

Location: Richmond, VA

Equal Opportunity:

MARKETview is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment for our employees and do not discriminate based on any status protected under federal, state, or local law.