Natalie S. Satterfield
Data Scientist, Online marketplaces
Charlotte, NC · (704) 555 0121 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/nataliessatterfield
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Six years in data science, four of them in marketplace pricing.
INDUSTRIES
Online marketplaces, resale and consignment retail, consumer subscription.
SPECIALTIES
Experiment design, causal inference, demand and elasticity modeling, uplift analysis.
SYSTEMS
Python, Structured Query Language, Snowflake, dbt, MLflow, scikit learn, Tableau.
CREDENTIALS
SnowPro Core certification from Snowflake.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in statistics, North Carolina State University.
Results at a Glance
9%
Switchback test
600
Thousand dollars
4%
High value sellers
Executive Summary
Data scientist on the pricing and marketplace team at an online resale marketplace with 2 million active buyers. Six years of experiment design and demand modeling, and a habit of asking what decision a model is meant to change before opening a notebook. Works inside a 30 person data science and artificial intelligence group.
Signature Achievements
- Built the price recommendation model that raised seller listing completion by 9 percent in a switchback test across 14 categories.
- Designed the experimentation guardrails that stopped three underpowered tests a quarter from being called as wins.
- Estimated shipping promotion lift with a difference in differences design and cut 600 thousand dollars of spend that was not moving orders.
- Cut model retraining from a monthly manual afternoon to a scheduled run tracked in MLflow.
- Showed that a proposed fee change would have driven off 4 percent of high value sellers, which paused the rollout.
- Wrote the power analysis calculator the product managers now use before requesting a test.
Professional Experience
Data Scientist
Queen City Resale Marketplace, Charlotte, NC 2022 to present
Pricing scientist within a 30 person data science and artificial intelligence group at a 600 employee marketplace.
- Owns the price recommendation and elasticity models that suggest a listing price to sellers.
- Designs and analyzes marketplace experiments, including switchback and geographic designs where interference rules out simple randomization.
- Monitors live models for drift and calibration and retrains on a documented schedule.
- Presents results to product and finance leaders in language that survives a follow up question.
Analytics Scientist
Piedmont Subscription Brands, Winston Salem, NC 2019 to 2022
Two person science team at a consumer subscription company with 180 thousand subscribers.
- Built the churn model that drove the retention team's outreach list.
- Ran acquisition and pricing tests and wrote the readouts leadership acted on.
- Created the customer lifetime value framework used in annual planning.
Licensure and Certification
SnowPro Core certification, Snowflake, 2023
Education
Master of Science in statistics, North Carolina State University, 2019
Bachelor of Arts in mathematics, Davidson College, 2017
Core Skills
Experiment design · Power analysis · Causal inference · Python · scikit learn · Structured Query Language · Snowflake · MLflow · Elasticity modeling · Tableau