# Senior Data Scientist

Responsibilities: Frame the decision. Turn ambiguous questions into clear decision problems, objectives, constraints, hypotheses, success measures, and analytical plans tied to business outcomes. Build robust forecasts. Develop time-series, machine-learning, hierarchical, probabilistic, and cold-start approaches; quantify uncertainty across relevant levels and horizons, and backtest performance. Measure marketing impact. Design experiments and apply causal-inference and quasi-experimental methods to estimate incrementality, causal impact, and return from marketing, publicity, promotions, and other interventions. Optimise pricing and investment. Use elasticity models, simulation, mathematical optimisation, and scenario analysis to improve pricing, promotion, and resource-allocation decisions within business constraints. Optimize supply-chain decisions. Translate demand distributions into practical inventory, production, reprint, allocation, buffer-stock, and warehouse recommendations that balance service, cost, and risk. Use AI to accelerate delivery. Apply approved generative AI and AI-assisted tools to research, code, develop features, test, document, and prototype faster; establ

- **Id**: 4045648
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/simon-and-schuster-senior-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T23:35:45Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:35:45Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3335
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1753099
- **Name**: Simon and Schuster
- **Domain**: simonandschuster.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/simonandschuster-com>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T23:35:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T01:36:05Z

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