Senior Data Scientist

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

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**Summary / Role Purpose**

As a Senior or Lead Data Scientist on our Go-to-Market (GTM) team, you will leverage vast amounts of internal and external market and customer data to build transformative Data-Science and Machine Learning (DSML) models. These models will provide critical insights to the business, identifying opportunities to increase revenue, improve sales productivity, and drive resource efficiency.

As a Senior or Lead Data Scientist within GTM, you will refine business questions, identify the appropriate data sources, extract data, conduct quantitative analyses, define actionable metrics, synthesize information, and present insights to support GTM teams.

The incumbent will use the whole range of data science tools and capabilities to build out the following use-cases (and more):

- Customer Segmentation
- Territory Design
- Lead Scoring
- Propensity to buy
- Cross-sell and Upsell
- Resource optimization models
- Revenue forecasting
- Product Recommendations

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**
- Conduct systematical data analyses that include data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables, and presentations.
- Build and prototype end-to-end data workflows and data analysis pipelines iteratively to provide data insights at scale, leveraging Machine Learning and AI as needed.
- Develop comprehensive knowledge of Ansys data structures and GTM metrics.
- Create Business Intelligence dashboards, data visualizations (e.g., leveraging PowerBI or Tableau) and presentations that provide clear insights and predictions on KPIs for executive leadership.
- Interact cross-functionally, making business recommendations with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information

**Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Operations Research or other closely related quantitative or mathematical discipline
- 5+ years of relevant experience developing/testing/scaling complex ML solutions.
- Strong programming skills using Python.
- Experience with connecting different APIs to build end-to-end data flows.
- Strong ability to take an ambiguous business problem and develop a full-fledged ML/DS solution to solve it
- Experience in data mining process, AI/ML techniques for market research, sales forecast, revenue prediction and customer purchase behavior modelling
- Experience in scripting with SQL, extracting large sets of data from internal databases (SNOWFLAKE, SFDC, Oracle, Siebel) and external data sources (DnB, Capital IQ etc.), and design of ETL flows.
- Experience in creating dashboard with PowerBI or Tableau.
- Deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analysis and trends and applied knowledge of measurement, statistics, and program evaluation.
- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple stakeholder groups

**Preferred Qualifications and Skills**
- Experience in a high-tech, software, SaaS company
- Experience working with statistical packages (e.g., Excel VBA, R, SAS, Stata, MATLAB, etc.)
- Experience in advanced programing tools (e.g., Alteryx, Python, TensorFlow)
- Experience with Machine Learning APIs from public cloud vendors (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google)
- MS/PhD in a quantitative field from a top tier school

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential in the knowledge that every day is an opportunity to observe, teach, inspire, and be inspired. **Together as One Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement**.

Our Commitments:

- Amaze with innovative products and solutions
- Make our customers incredibly successful
- Act with integrity
- Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

- Adaptability: Be open, welcome what’s next
- Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
- Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
- Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

- We commit to audacious goals
- We work seamlessly as a team
- We demonstrate mastery
- We deliver outstanding results

**OUR ONE ANSYS CULTURE HAS INCLUSION AT ITS CORE**
We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their