Data Scientist, Product

Company Overview

Farmers Business Network®* (*FBN®) is on a mission to power the prosperity of family farmers and rural communities around the world, transforming how the world farms with an integrated, technology-enabled agricultural platform.

We offer high ROI farm inputs, fintech and sustainability products and services powered by network data, and farm-tested insights from our global farmer community. Our platform helps FBN® members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms, while also empowering them to be a part of the solution as the global community confronts its most pressing issues: providing food security for a growing population, transitioning to more sustainable agriculture, and responding to climate change.

We are a dynamic, innovative, and mission-driven AgTech company that offers competitive compensation and benefits as well as boundless career mobility. We are backed by top investors, including Fidelity, ADM, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, DBL Partners, T Rowe Price and Temasek. We have been featured in these articles by the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, and were also named "One of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World" by Fast Company Magazine.

THE ROLE

How can we sustainably feed the world? With the population set to reach nine billion by 2050 and available farmland decreasing, the odds are stacked against us. This problem falls squarely on the shoulders of farmers, who are increasingly working harder for less. FBN helps farmers to solve these problems.

Farmers are often forced to make key decisions in the face of significant uncertainty about their impact. FBN applies technology and data science to this challenge. We're building the world's largest agronomic dataset - made up of billions of data points, gathered from sophisticated sensors on farm equipment. The network effect of farmers sharing their data allows us to deliver unprecedented analyses that help farmers make data-driven decisions - we're not just building new technology, we're also making new agricultural scientific discoveries.

We're looking for data scientists who are enthusiastic about applying big data to help farmers!

Data science underlies every product that we build at FBN, so you'll see your work directly translate into new products for our farmers. The data science team at FBN:

• Explores one of the world's most unique, interesting, and diverse datasets
• Furthers scientific understanding about what affects agricultural production
• Uncovers insights that help farmers efficiently support a growing population
• Makes meaningful improvements in the world by translating data science into products that help farmers increase yield and efficiency

Area of Focus

• Leverage creative and statistically rigorous experimental methods to optimize FBN’s digital products.
• Develop a rigorous statistical framework for evaluating the impact of our product features on our Members.
• Design hypothesis-driven product experiments to test out specific product features.
• Analyze the results of product experiments to provide statistically sound conclusions and actionable recommendations to Product partners.
• Promote a rigorous culture of experimentation throughout the company.
• Represent Data Science on the cross-functional Growth Team

Required Skills

• 3+ years working with software product data to drive key business outcomes
• Deep understanding of statistical modeling concepts
• Familiarity with machine learning algorithms
• Experience with time series analysis and demand forecasting / demand planning
• Excellent programming skills (R or Python preferred)
• Familiarity with cloud computing and version control
• Preferred: Experience with geospatial data science tools (e.g., Google Earth Engine; Python: gdal, shapely, rasterio, geopandas; R: raster, rgdal, sf)
• Preferred: understanding of agricultural systems (soil chemistry, plant physiology, entomology, etc…)

**** Required Experience

• MS or greater in statistics or related discipline

Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and participates in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration’s E-Verify program.

*The following represents FBN's reasonable estimate of the US national average base salary range of possible compensation for this role based on market data and placement of internal employees: $120,000 - $135,000. *

This salary range may vary based on geography and variations in cost of labor. Beyond the above or adjusted to market salary range, FBN also offers all full-time employees competitive equity compensation, health and wellness benefits, and various perks.

FBN is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. FBN considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. ******We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here.****** FBN is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email fill out this form. #LI-REMOTE