Staff Data Scientist - Growth Ecosystem

What you’ll do

Deep strategic analyses to answer growth ecosystem questions such as how to drive long term user engagement and how to balance monthly active user growth and overall user engagement.Product recommendations. Clearly communicate recommendations to product and engineering leadership on how we can evolve our internal strategy to address shortcomings observed through deep analysis. Develop frameworks and metrics to quantify the health of the growth ecosystem and identify opportunities to drive long-term growth.  Opportunity sizing and analysis. Write clear actionable analyses that help teams identify areas of improvement to our growth strategies. How do we segment users and provide more personalized experiences for different segments users?Leadership: Lead and mentor the scope of work for at least one other individual demonstrating high-quality output of both yourself and others for whom you are responsible. Provide continuous and candid feedback recognizing individual strengths and contributions and flagging opportunities to improve performance.

What we’re looking for

• 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data

• Proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data

• Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python/R)

• Proficiency in SQL/Hive

• Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions

• Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams

• Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others

What skills are ideal but not required?

Exposure to one or more of the following areas is beneficial. Ideal candidates would have exposure to 2+ of these areas and deep familiarity in 1 or more areas.

• Strongly desired: experience working in Growth function in particular experience working on SEO logged out user experience user activation and paid marketing.

• Experience developing and productionizing analytical frameworks to guide strategic decisions.

• Experience with cohort and year over year trend analyses.

• Ability to create compelling data narratives.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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