Senior Data Scientist, Private Investments

Job description

Founded in 1999, Viking Global Investors (“Viking”) is a global investment firm with a long-term, fundamental, research-intensive approach to investing. Viking manages over $52 billion of capital across public and private investments. Viking has offices in Stamford, New York, Hong Kong, London, and San Francisco, and is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, please visit www.vikingglobal.com . POSITION AVAILABLE: TITLE: Senior Data Scientist, Private Investments DUTIES: Identify investable opportunities for private equity and structured credit using alternative data sources. Develop custom analytics to facilitate the identification of potential acquisition targets through the use of alternative datasets. For example, use large datasets that contain software reviews to identify mid-market software companies that are growing fast and gaining market shares within their category. Use sentiment analysis to assess customers’ perception of their software products. Leverage vast repository of alternative data to triangulate private investment insights across multiple datasets. Evaluate business quality and growth potentia...