We promise you’re going to love this job and the work that you do.

VAMONDE connects attractions and cultural organizations with hotels and travel brands through experiential content and events. Our proprietary creation tool allows museums and cultural institutions to tell their stories by digitally repackaging their content. Our white-label technology helps hotels and travel brands curate this content to provide some of the best hyperlocal information to their guests. We are the middlemen/women that help bring great stories to travelers so that they can live great stories.

If you have a passion for travel and culture and love to nerd out over best practices, this is the place for you. You will be joining a group that prides itself on having a collaborative workplace where everyone gets a say and a chance to be creative. You’ll be a part of exciting debates, ideation, and brainstorming meetings and then battle it out over some intense ping pong matches. The office also comes with free drinks and snacks...and who doesn’t like free drinks and snacks?

Sound like the right place for you?

Why VAMONDE!

Our workplace culture is one of camaraderie, collaboration, and transparency. We expect and encourage team members to own their parts of the business and guarantee a high-impact role in our team. In addition to a full pay package, we offer a flexible work environment and lots of opportunity for growth. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Explore the content: https://www.vamonde.com/

Explore the software: https://solutions.vamonde.com/
 

About You!

The ideal candidate is someone who’s confident in their skills with Python and is aiming to develop a career in Data Science / Machine Learning. You’ve modeled out and implemented complex data structures and are able to explain them to non-technical team members. Ideally, you’ve also worked with AWS or other comparable platforms and are willing to work with us on recommendation engines, data normalization, and user journey insights.

This is an onsite, full-time position at our offices in Chicago.

The Role

• Create systems to distribute personalized content to users based on past interactions
• Own the analytics behind the customer journey and develop actionable insights based on findings and learnings
• Architecting new features and managing releases of those features
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Create and maintain technical documentation

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 1-2 years of experience programming in a modern object-oriented programming language (Python, Ruby On Rails, or GO).
• Have applied data science / machine learning in context and have examples to show
• Knowledge of machine learning, data science, and surrounding architecture
• Startup mentality: self-starter, proactive, flexible
   

Why you will love working here

Our workplace culture is grounded in collaboration, flexibility, and transparency. In addition to a full pay package, we offer a flexible work environment and lots of opportunity for growth. Compensation will be commensurate with experience. You will be tackling involved problems and spearheading our content personalization efforts as well.

Candidates must be based in Chicago or willing to relocate. 

No recruiters please.

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Skills

Data Science, Machine Learning, PostreSQL, Spark, Hadoop, Celery

Compensation

$60K – $80K