Data Scientist

About us:

BeZero Carbon is a London-based climate solutions company founded in April 2020.  We help organisations make smarter Net Zero decisions through our platform and service offerings: 

• BeZero Carbon Markets is the world’s leading data and analytics platform for the Voluntary Carbon Market, powered by our proprietary BeZero Carbon Rating methodology. Users can discover, understand, compare and value accredited carbon projects all over the world, and make better trading and investment decisions. 
• BeZero Carbon Solutions enables organisations to know where they are in their climate journey, plan Net Zero strategies and act to ensure they reach their goals. Our team also works with project developers and investors to bring carbon projects to market.

We are a 50-strong team combining expertise across a range of disciplines including climatic and earth sciences, economics and markets research, data and technology, engineering, and public policy. We have employees across six continents, who are collectively driven by our mission to deliver prosperity via climate action. 

Job Description:

BeZero is looking for a Data Scientist to join our product team. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the fastest growing climate start ups and create the tools for climate action. The BeZero Carbon Markets platform provides data & analytics research into certified voluntary carbon projects. Our framework and analysis are helping scale the voluntary carbon market by driving efficiency and transparency. This multifaceted role will play a key part in using  data, and analytics to create rich content for the platform. This will include systematising project data collection, managing internal datasets and driving our use of Machine Learning and other statistical techniques.  

Key Outcomes:

1. Create, maintain,  and evolve BeZero’s Machine Learning models
2. Curate the data sources for the content and engineering teams to inform qualitative and quantitative analysis.  Manage inbound data sources, structure and maintain data:

• Qualitative data - project documents, news alerts, market information, policy and regulations etc
• Quantitative data - project data, market transactions (price, volume, issuance, retirements etc)

Responsibilities: 

• Scrape and process data from a wide range of sources
• Manipulate large data sets to extract, categorise and store information about voluntary carbon market projects
• Organise and manage data sets in order to provide the basis for BCM platform content creation
• Work closely with Engineering and Content teams to ensure data is stored and managed in a way that enables platform functionality and efficient analysis
• Continuously improve and automate extraction and maintenance of data
• Understand, own and improve Machine Learning models that analyse carbon credit ratings

Our ideal candidate will have: 

• 1-2 years experience working in a data management or data science role
• The ability to work effectively under pressure within a fast-growing company
• Experience scraping and transforming data, and managing and maintaining large data sets
• Experience translating business needs across technology, product and content into data solutions
• Experience with statistical software (Python, R).
• Experience with document and relational databases (Postgres).
• Some experience building machine learning models
• Preferred: An understanding of Carbon Accounting and / or voluntary carbon markets
• Preferred: Experience in natural language processing. 

What we’ll offer: 

• Ability to learn and develop alongside a range of sector specialists from the scientific, economic and business community 
• Potential to own and shape opportunities for use of artificial intelligence across the company.
• The ability to quickly build and deploy your work to customers
• Opportunity to work in a cross-cutting role, interacting with lots of different parts of the business
• Growth opportunities that come from working at a fast-paced VC-backed technology business
• Central London office space (Angel) with flexibility to work from home 2 days a week + some flexibility over working location during the summer; as well as regular social events 

Our interview process: 

• Initial screening interview (15 mins)
• Second interview (30 mins) + skills test
• Final interview (45 mins) with senior management

• Reference checks + offer

Apply here: https://bezero-carbon.breezy.hr/p/217df02c173501