Data Scientist I

Who We Are: HelioCampus was founded with the purpose of helping college & university leaders navigate today’s growing pressures. As one of EdTech’s most steadily growing companies, our roots in higher ed ground us in the critical nature of this work. What We Do:We help our clients navigate today’s high stakes with data and Institutional Performance Management practices. Together with our clients, we chart a path to sustainability by borrowing practices from the most successful businesses. How We Do It: We approach our work with a “we’re on it” attitude that the higher ed community has come to know and expect from our team. We’re data geeks to our core, committed to simplifying the toughest challenges and operating with transparency. Our most successful team members are change agents who love a challenge. How You'll Help:Bringing experience analyzing student-level data at a Higher Ed institution or EdTech company in the areas of admissions, enrollment, financial aid, student success, institutional effectiveness, or finance and budget, you will step into a key role within HelioCampus ’ Client Experience division. As a member of the DS-OPS (Data Science Operations, Products, and Services) team, you will partner directly with university leadership to turn "business questions" into "data questions," delivering analyses and predictive models that support institutional decision-making. In this role, you will work independently and collaboratively with engineers and clients to design datasets, perform statistical analysis, build dashboards, and deploy machine learning models. Managing your projects autonomously, you will use your strong communication skills to translate complex analytical results into clear, actionable insights for a variety of higher education stakeholders. What You Will Do: Communicate with stakeholders to determine institutional goals, and design analyses and data visualizations to provide insight to complex business problems. Conduct exploratory data an