Data Scientist - Monetization

[ Quora is a 'remote-first' company . This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]

About Quora:

Quora’s mission is to grow and share the world’s knowledge. To do so we have two knowledge sharing products:

• Quora : a global knowledge sharing platform with over 400M monthly unique visitors bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.

• Poe : a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots) including GPT-4 Claude 3 Gemini Pro DALL-E 3 and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.

Behind these products are passionate collaborative and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency idea-sharing and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.

About the Team and Role:

The Data Team is highly empowered at Quora helping navigate complexity and influencing product and company strategy directly. Quora's outsized commitment to data is visible in everything we do from our sophisticated experimentation processes to the backgrounds of our leaders. With this emphasis on data and empirics we aim to balance rigor and pragmatism searching for scrappy solutions in pursuit of our mission. In joining Quora's strong data team you'll both benefit from and work to advance our culture of rational decision making.

As a member of our team you'll work closely with product managers product designers and engineers to devise appropriate measurements and metrics design randomized controlled experiments build visualizations and tackle hard open-ended problems that uncover usage patterns and opportunities for the company. Quora has a wide range of rich data giving you ample room for exploration and creativity. Examples of some projects our data scientists have worked on include modeling our long-term growth improving the relevance and personalization of the homepage feed and exploratory analysis of factors driving question-asking behavior. For more about our work see Quora's Data blog at https://data.quora.com/ .

As a data scientist on monetization you will work with our ads team to make sure Quora efficiently delivers high-quality ads to the right people at the right time. You will also work with the sales team to identify growth opportunities and demonstrate effectiveness of campaigns on Quora.

Responsibilities:

• Extract actionable insights from broad open-ended questions

• Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product changes

• Analyze data from across the product to uncover the root causes of metric movements

• Communicate results to cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions

• Develop tools to scale and automate analyses improving productivity across the company

• Improve the work of other data scientists through mentorship and by bringing industry best practices to the team

Minimum Requirements:

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “ coordination hours ' (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)

• 3+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role as a Data Scientist or similar title

• Extensive experience generating insights using statistical techniques (e.g. regression hypothesis testing)

• Demonstrated ability to clearly explain data results to cross-functional teams

• Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python R) to manipulate clean and analyze data

• Ability to exercise judgment and combine quantitative skills with intuition and common sense

• Experience evangelizing best practices and process improvements on your team

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Redshift Presto)

• Experience pushing code and navigating a complex codebase

• Active Quora and/or Poe user with curiosity about the product

At Quora we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech to apply for our job openings. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements to apply as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.

Additional Information:

We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.

Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage equity refreshers remote work reimbursement paid time off employee assistance programs and more. Benefits are country-specific and may vary. For more information on benefits visit this link: https://www.careers.quora.com/benefits

There are many factors that will determine the starting pay including but not limited to experience location education and business needs.

• US candidates only: For US based applicants the salary range is $122000 - $201800 USD + equity + benefits.

• Canada candidates only: For Canada based applicants the salary range is $144617 - $205038 CAD + equity + benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

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