Junior Data Scientist

Location: Oslo

As part of the Data Science team you will build high-impact data products and algorithms to supercharge the understanding of our data, improve the data quality, and data ingestion, and answer questions we did not know even existed; enabling trust and transparency, automation, intelligence-based decision making, and an overall data-driven culture across the entire value chain.

What you will be doing

• You will perform complex data analysis and reports, communicate insights tailored to different audiences, and make recommendations based on your findings that contribute to company strategic decisions.
• You will work with product managers, data analysts, software engineers, business representatives, and other stakeholders to understand their problems and design solutions.
• You will automate data extraction of raw data from multiple sources so that it can be ingested, analyzed, and mined for insights.
• You will contribute to our data-driven culture and community by sharing your knowledge and expertise with the team and with the company.

Skills, knowledge & expertise

Your profile

• You are a team player, you enjoy learning and improving the team around you and yourself.
• You have a strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, curiosity, and daring when venturing into unknown territory.
• You have interest in both building things and extracting insights from data using scientific methods.
• You are able to communicate and empathize when trying to understand the problems, needs, and desires of stakeholders.
• You have a keen eye for detail.
• You have a get-things-done attitude.

Your experience

• A higher education degree within a technical/engineering field or quantitative fields, like computer science, physics, economics, statistics, mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience with Python or R.
• Fluent in English, oral and written.

Not sure whether you're the perfect fit? Give it a try regardless - we love to hear from interesting people! Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a person — Not just your professional experience.

Nice to have

• Knowing how to apply different algorithms to solve different problems - whether it’s linear regression or random forests.
• Having a general understanding of biases in data.
• Experience in analyzing pricing data.
• Experience with AWS.

What we offer

• We will help you grow your career: We help you identify areas of growth for you, whether you want to grow as a specialist in your field or eventually want to go into a leadership/management role.
• We have a transparent and open work environment where everyone is empowered to make an impact and encouraged to voice their ideas.
• Keeping true to our value, “Xeneta is one,” we regularly organize social events, including global company trips, breakfast gatherings, Friday after-work-socials, and weekly quizzes.
• You will enjoy our generous vacation plan: 5-10 extra paid days off around public holidays throughout the year and 5 weeks of paid vacation.
• You will receive an individual education budget and can educate yourself during work hours: you can spend several hours each month attending courses, reading books, or getting involved in communities.
• We value work-life balance and want to make sure you can spend quality time with your family or enjoy your hobbies when your workday is over
• We will help you relocate to Oslo if you are applying from abroad. We will provide you with a temporary apartment and reimburse your expenses for the relocation flight, permit, and visa fees.
• We have flexible working hours (core time with meetings is 10:00 to 15:00, the rest is up to you), and you can work remotely for extended periods when needed.

Xeneta is an equal-opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

About Xeneta

At Xeneta, we have been on a mission to transform the ocean and air freight markets since 2012. We are doing this by building a data platform that provides intelligence to the very opaque industry of buying and selling containerized freight. Now, Xeneta is the leading freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform—creating transparency and empowering our customers to make data-driven decisions.

Our customers include big brands such as Kuehne+Nagel, Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, Pfizer, Flexport, L'Oreál, Nestlé, and Volvo.

Headquartered in Oslo, with offices in Hamburg, London and Jersey City and employees from over 60 different countries, we are a truly international company that celebrates diversity. We’re growing at a fast pace, helped in part by our latest investment round where APAX Digital invested $80M, and we are continuously searching for top talent and partners to join us on our mission.