Arjun Ashwin Joshi

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Head of Data at Jade Analytics · Recommendation systems

Jade Analytics
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
11+ years experience
Parsons School of Design
English
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Overview

I've spent 12 years on recommendation systems - first at Boston Consulting Group, now at Jade Analytics. Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker. Built the recommendations models now used in 8 product decisions a quarter. Before that: Bain & Company and BlackRock.

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Skills
rankingoptimisationembeddingsPyTorchSpark
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Hiring a founding data analyst for the recommendations team - Chicago

Role
Founding data analyst
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$151k-$188k
Team
Recommendations, 14 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $169k-$234k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Chicago, ILoptimisationpytorchspark
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Experience

  1. Head of Data
    Jul 2025 - Present
    Jade Analytics · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 7.7%.
    • Built the recommendations models now used in 7 product decisions a quarter.
  2. Data Scientist
    Mar 2024 - Jul 2025
    Bain & Company · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 7.6%.
  3. Data Scientist
    Mar 2022 - Mar 2024
    BlackRock · 2 yr · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 3.9%.
  4. Data Analyst
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
    Robinhood · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Taught SQL to 188 non-analysts.
  5. Data Analyst
    Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Replaced 86 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from recommendations
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling recommendation systems.

Recommendation systems benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Spark and PyTorch on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Parsons School of Design
    BFA, Operations Research
    2009 - 2013

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