About Us

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

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Position Overview

The Diligent Data Science Team is a small, multidisciplinary team comprised of data scientists, data analysts, and knowledge and content engineers. We work closely with Technology teams to maintain the performance of our models in production, and with Product teams to develop new data-based solutions. We maintain and control a news intelligence product, and supply data to multiple other products via API.

As a Data Scientist, you will report to the Director, Software Engineering. You will have to maintain and monitor our current Natural Language Processing and Forecasting ML models in production; improve the precision and recall of our current Named Entity Recognition algorithm and our supervised ML models; and expand our current news analytics feature set to include risk metrics extracted from a combination of unique ESG datasets, including shareholder activism, stakeholder engagement, carbon accounting, regulatory policies, and corporate disclosures. You will work closely with product managers, data scientists and machine learning engineers to nourish a unique data intelligence platform to inform the C-suite and board of impending ESG risks.

Key Responsibilities

Improve current supervised ML model’s precision and recall by conducting feature engineering and leveraging transformer-based architectures in AWS Sagemaker.
Conduct exploratory data analysis of ESG datasets to uncover patterns that inform risk metrics.
Utilize these ESG risk patterns to develop data products.
Maintain and monitor models and algorithms in production.

Required Experience/Skills

Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
Proven experience in the workplace with Python and SQL.
Ability to solve problems independently with a US-based team. This involves being willing to adjust to US working hours 3 days per week.
Ability to dive into complex scripts and comprehend them autonomously.
Ability to combine datasets coming from different platforms.
Passionate about uncovering patterns across ESG datasets using data mining methodologies while keeping client impact top of mind.

Preferred Experience/Skills

Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
Experience with Python Django and PostgreSQL.
Experience with NLP such as word2vec, LSTMs, or transformer-based models; and with training supervised Machine Learning classifiers, ideally in TensorFlow and Keras, or PyTorch.

What Diligent Offers You

Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, and Sydney.
Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney. 

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