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Marketing (must) Python (must) Sql (nice) Spanish Social Media

What this posting asks for

Level: Senior — The title says "Senior".

Main responsibilities

  • We're hiring an ML-focused Data Scientist to own retention and churn for CookUnity. In a weekly subscription business, retention is the engine of growth — th…
  • Churn & retention modeling: Build churn/survival models and lifecycle-state models that flag at-risk customers early and anticipate where each customer is he…
  • Intervention & reason understanding: Power the retention interventions that act on that risk — save flows, skip/pause deflection, lifecycle messaging — and c…
  • Resurrection & win-back: Develop propensity models and personalized experiences that bring churned customers back.
  • Personalization & Next-Best-Action: Decide the right action, offer, and message per customer across product surfaces, with an uplift layer measuring incremen…
  • Offer & promo optimization: Determine who gets an incentive, when, and at what value — maximizing retained revenue without over-discounting.
  • Production & MLOps: Own the full model lifecycle and ship models into the systems where they act; handle monitoring, retraining, and drift.
  • Experimentation & incrementality: Design experiments and uplift measurement so we intervene on movable customers and not on those who'd retain anyway.

Competencies an interviewer will look for

  • Technical skill Core
    In the posting: “This is a hands-on role embedded with Product, CRM, Marketing, and Engineering.” · “Engineering & tooling: strong Python (pandas, scikit-learn, gradient boosting;” · “deep learning a plus), SQL, code hygiene and reproducibility.”
    Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
  • Leadership and mentoring Core
    In the posting: “We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working.” · “To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's Leadership Principles – The values and behaviors…” · “👩🏾‍🏫 Personalized Spanish coach”
    Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
  • Customer focus Core
    In the posting: “In a weekly subscription business, retention is the engine of growth — the gap between a healthy customer and a churned one is often just a few weeks of acti…” · “Your job is to predict who's at risk, understand why they leave, and power the interventions that keep customers ordering and win back the ones who go.” · “Churn & retention modeling: Build churn/survival models and lifecycle-state models that flag at-risk customers early and anticipate where each customer is he…”
    Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
  • Data and analysis Core
    In the posting: “We're hiring an ML-focused Data Scientist to own retention and churn for CookUnity.” · “5-8+ years in data science, applied ML, or statistics, shipping production models.” · “Education: BS in a quantitative field required;”
    Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
  • Attention to detail and quality Core
    In the posting: “Causal & experimentation rigor: uplift/incrementality measurement and A/B testing, with the judgment to separate true impact from selection effects.” · “Ability to leverage generative AI to increase output quality and speed.” · “We appreciate your interest in joining CookUnity — and we care about keeping your experience (and safety) as genuine as possible.”
    Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
  • Communication Core
    In the posting: “Collaboration: excellent communication;” · “We only communicate through official CookUnity channels.”
    Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
  • Teamwork and collaboration Core
    In the posting: “Collaboration: excellent communication;” · “To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's Leadership Principles – The values and behaviors…”
    Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
  • Ownership and accountability Core
    In the posting: “Production & MLOps: Own the full model lifecycle and ship models into the systems where they act;” · “End-to-end ML & MLOps: building, validating, and deploying models in production (CI/CD, registries, containerization, orchestration, monitoring).”
    Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
  • Stakeholder management Core
    In the posting: “We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working.” · “All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with marke…”
    Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
  • Planning and organisation Supporting
    In the posting: “🌅 401k Plan”
    Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.

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Practice questions

  1. Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
  2. If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
  3. Built from this posting (7):
  4. Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
  5. Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
  6. Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
  7. Tell me about a time you used data or numbers to make a decision. From this posting
  8. How have you used marketing in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
  9. Tell me about a problem you solved using python. From this posting
  10. You have three urgent tasks due today and time to finish only two. How do you decide? From this posting
  11. This posting reads as Data analysis: its questions come first.
  12. Tell me about an analysis that changed a decision. Data analysis
  13. How do you check that a query or spreadsheet you built gives the right answer? Data analysis
  14. Describe a new tool or technique you learned to finish a piece of work. Data analysis
  15. Describe a time you found that the data you were given was wrong. Data analysis
  16. A manager asks you for 'the numbers' by tomorrow with no further detail. What do you do? Data analysis
  17. What makes a dashboard useful, and how have you built one? Data analysis
  18. Tell me about a time you explained a statistical result to people without a data background. Data analysis
  19. Sales dropped 15% last month. How would you find out why? Data analysis
  20. Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.
  21. Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
  22. Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
  23. Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
  24. Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
  25. Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
  26. Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
  27. Describe a process you improved.
  28. Do you have any questions for us?
  29. Why do you want to work here?
  30. Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
  31. Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
  32. Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
  33. What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
  34. What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
  35. You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
  36. Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
  37. A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
  38. How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
  39. Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
  40. You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
  41. Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
  42. How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
  43. Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
  44. How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
  45. Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
  46. Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
  47. A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
  48. How do you keep your pipeline organised?
  49. Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
  50. You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?