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Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners withleaders in business and society to tackle their most importantchallenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was thepioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, wehelp clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change,enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, anddriving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blenddigital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bringdeep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectivesto spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edgemanagement consulting along with technology and design, corporateand digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquelycollaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels ofthe client organization, generating results that allow our clientsto thrive.We Are BCG X  We’re a diverse team of more than3,000 tech experts united by a drive to make a difference. Workingacross industries and disciplines, we combine our experience andexpertise to tackle the biggest challenges faced by society today.We go beyond what was once thought possible, creating new andinnovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems.Leveraging BCG’s global network and partnerships with leadingorganizations, BCG X provides a stable ecosystem for talent tobuild game-changing businesses, products, and services from theground up, all while growing their career. Together, we strive tocreate solutions that will positively impact the lives of millions.What You'll Do Our BCG X teams own the full analytics value-chainend to end: framing new business challenges, designing innovativealgorithms, implementing, and deploying scalable solutions, andenabling colleagues and clients to fully embrace AI. Our productofferings span from fully custom-builds to industry specificleading edge AI software solutions.    As a DataScientist, you'll be part of our rapidly growing team. You'll havethe chance to apply data science methods and analytics toreal-world business situations across a variety of industries todrive significant business impact. You'll have the chance topartner with clients in a variety of BCG regions and industries,and on key topics like climate change, enabling them to design,build, and deploy new and innovative solutions.  Additionalresponsibilities will include developing and delivering thoughtleadership in scientific communities and papers as well as leadingconferences on behalf of BCG X. Successful candidates areintellectually curious builders who are biased toward action,scrappy, and communicative.    We are looking fortalented individuals with a passion for data science, statistics,operations research and transforming organizations into AI ledinnovative companies. Successful candidates possess thefollowing:  * Comfortable in a client-facing role with theambition to lead teams  * Likes to distill complex results orprocesses into simple, clear visualizations  * Explainsophisticated data science concepts in an understandablemanner  * Love building things and are comfortable workingwith modern development tools and writing code collaboratively(bonus points if you have a software development or DevOpsexperience)  * Significant experience applying advancedanalytics to a variety of business situations and a proven abilityto synthesize complex data  * Deep understanding of modernmachine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings,and can translate this into business implications for ourclients  * Have strong project management skills  WhatYou'll Bring * *TECHNOLOGIES: *   Programming Languages:Python Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexualorientation, gender identity / expression, national origin,disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristicprotected under national, provincial, or local law, whereapplicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered ina manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. BCG is anE - Verify Employer. (Click here)(https://careers.bcg.com/global/en/e-verify) for more informationon E-Verify.

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