Data Scientist

Beyond is a leading online furniture and home furnishings retailer, headquartered in the USA, with an innovative Software Development base, in Sligo that build and support the e-commerce platforms for our global retail sites.

 

What We Do:

We innovate to deliver simple, fast, secure, and delightful experiences for our customers, partners, and teams. Our software engineering teams thrive in our positive, open, excellence driven and innovative culture. Our team members play a critical role in keeping that magic.

An opportunity for a Data Scientist to join our team and dive into some of the toughest analytic challenges within our multifaceted, multibillion-dollar business. The data scientist will work with extensive datasets to provide product guidance, identify anomalies, forecast trends, and make predictions. This role demands a strong foundation in mathematics, technical skills, business acumen, and effective communication to drive value across the organisation.

Job Responsibilities

• Gather, clean, report, and interpret data rapidly and thoughtfully. Ingest large volumes of data, identify the critical signal in all that information, and then act on that signal to drive millions in growth or savings.
• Perform ad hoc analysis using statistics, machine learning, and data mining techniques.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to solve problems and identify opportunities.
• Design and analyze experiments to generate actionable outcomes.
• Report findings, recommendations, and conclusions resulting from analysis.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to solve problems and identify opportunities.

Required

• 0-4 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong intellectual curiosity combined with a knack for recognizing correlations, trends, and statistical irregularities.
• Strong understanding of foundational statistical concepts and methods, including hypothesis testing.
• Proficient with SQL and relational databases.
• Familiarity with statistical data analysis tools such as Python or R.
• Experience with regression and classification modeling.
• Ability to create clear, informative data visualizations.
• Knowledge of econometrics is required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Online and Digital Marketing as well as Direct Marketing.
• Refined presentation skills and story development.
• Experience working with a product or business team to identify valuable opportunities and executing on them.
• Familiarity with one or more of anomaly detection, optimization, casual inference, clustering techniques.
• Experience with BI tools and Microsoft Excel is beneficial.
• Familiarity with Online and Digital Marketing as well as Direct Marketing.

Education

• An undergraduate degree in statistics, mathematics, information systems, business analytics, economics, other related STEM fields or equivalent work experience is preferred.
• Master’s degree or PHD preferred.

What We Value: 

• Life/Work Balance
• Pride in Production
• Trust
• Challenge yourself, inspire others
• Success through diversity

It is our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion and membership of the Traveller community, (protected characteristics under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011).

We Go Beyond

About Us

Recognized as one of the nation’s best employers, Beyond is committed to an inclusive, outcome-driven, and empowering work environment. Join a team that encourages you to be authentically you.

Beyond is a tech-driven online retailer located near Salt Lake City in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains. Though we began in 1999 as Overstock, our brand has evolved from a liquidation startup to a billion-dollar online home retailer. In 2023 Overstock acquired the Bed Bath & Beyond branding and we've been helping customers from both companies create their dream homes ever since.