Data Analyst - AI/ML

Company Description

Assent is the leading solution for supply chain sustainability tailored for the world’s top-tier, sustainability-driven manufacturers. Hidden risks riddle supply chains, many of which weren't built with sustainability in mind. That's where we step in. With insights from experts, Assent is the tool manufacturers trust for comprehensive sustainability.

We are proud to announce that Assent has crossed the US$100M ARR milestone, granting us Centaur Status. This accomplishment, reached just 8 years following our Series A, makes us the first and only Certified B Corporation in North America's SaaS sustainability industry to celebrate this milestone.

Our journey from $5 million to US$100M ARR in just eight years has been marked by significant growth and achievements. With our $350 million US funding led by Vista Equity Partners, we're poised for even greater expansion and are on the lookout for outstanding team members to join our mission.

Hybrid Work Model

At Assent, we proudly embrace a remote-first work model, valuing the flexibility and autonomy it provides our team. We also acknowledge the intangible benefits of occasional in-person workdays. For team members situated within 50 kms/31 miles of our five global offices in Ottawa, Eldoret, Penang, Columbus, Pune and Amsterdam, you can expect to come into the office at least one day a week. Similarly, those near our co-working spaces in Nairobi and Toronto are encouraged to work onsite once a month.

Job Description

We are seeking a Data Analyst with strong SQL, Python, and data visualization skills to support Assent’s Data Science & AI initiatives. This role combines technical analysis with organizational knowledge-building. You will work with teams across the company to map out available data sources, understand how they are used, and consolidate this knowledge into a central inventory for the Data Science & AI team.

In addition to being the go-to expert on where and how data lives within Assent, you will provide analysis, dashboards, and insights that accelerate model development, monitoring, and evaluation. This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of data-driven AI innovation at Assent.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities 

• Data Discovery & Knowledge Building: Interview teams across the organization to understand what data they use, where it resides, and how it is accessed.
• Data Inventory & Documentation: Build and maintain a central inventory of datasets, including metadata, ownership, quality checks, and access details.
• SQL & Python Analysis: Query, clean, and analyze datasets to support exploratory data analysis (EDA), model development, feature engineering, and validation.
• Apply data cleaning, transformation, and interpolation techniques to handle missing, inconsistent, or incomplete datasets, ensuring reliable downstream use.
• Insights & Dashboards: Develop reports and dashboards in Tableau, and Sigma to track data quality, dataset usage, and AI/ML performance metrics.
• Ad-hoc Support: Provide on-demand analyses to support AI/ML experiments, audits, and evaluations.
• Data Quality Assurance: Monitor and flag issues in data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Develop methods to reconcile and connect disparate data points across systems to produce coherent, insight-ready datasets.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a bridge between business teams and the Data Science & AI group, ensuring smooth data access and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Data Analyst, BI Analyst, or in a similar analytical role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or related field.
• Strong SQL expertise for querying and transforming large datasets.
• Proficiency in Python (Pandas, Polars, Dask, numpy, matplotlib/seaborn, Jupyter) for analysis and visualization.
• Experience with Git and version control for managing analytical code and ensuring reproducibility.
• Demonstrated ability to perform data cleaning, imputation/interpolation, and transformation at scale.
• Hands-on experience with exploratory data analysis (EDA) and statistical techniques.
• Experience integrating and connecting data from multiple sources to extract actionable insights.
• Experience using BI/reporting tools with Tableau, Sigma (Or similar tools like Power BI).
• Excellent communication and interviewing skills to engage with cross-functional teams and capture data knowledge effectively.
• Strong organizational skills to build and maintain a living data inventory.
• Understanding of AI/ML data workflows (feature engineering, model evaluation, monitoring) is a plus.
• Familiarity with data governance practices and cloud environments (AWS, Snowflake, Azure, or GCP) is an asset.
• Familiarity with feature stores for reusable AI/ML datasets is an asset.

Additional Information

Life At Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact talent@assent.com and we will be happy to help.