Data Scientist, People Analytics

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 customers - from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses - across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

At Motive, our People Analytics team sits at the intersection of data science and talent strategy, transforming how we understand and enhance organizational performance. As a Data Scientist on our rapidly growing team, youll leverage advanced analytics to tackle our most pressing talent challenges and drive measurable business impact.

Youll pioneer the application of data science to human capital, building sophisticated models and research that decode organizational behavior and shape Motives talent strategy. Your work will span critical areas including:

• Predicting and enhancing talent acquisition, development, and retention
• Quantifying and elevating employee experience
• Optimizing team performance
• Maximizing productivity
• Rethinking how we measure talent

Human capital problems require particular attention to sample size impacts, covariance, selection bias, modeling choices, and other issues that can be the difference between highly meaningful & impactful results, and noise. In this role, you will leverage structured problem solving approaches and data science skills to identify and deliver high impact solutions, as well as develop unique data science skills and human-capital expertise.

• Passionate about human capital: You are excited by the value we can add to our company and our employees, and are inspired to help make a large positive impact
• Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.
• Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You re not afraid to share a new idea.
• Technical. You re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
• Statistically-minded. You ve built models, validated them, and backtested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motives core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motives policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology.

#LI-Remote