Applied Data Scientist

Job Overview

Help developers and teams focus, create, and collaborate. Take ideas from concept to production, working across data, product, and engineering. High-ownership role: frame ambiguous problems, explore data, build models or heuristics, integrate with systems, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly. Practical impact, traction, and speed of learning are key.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-value opportunities from product, customer, and operational data
• Evaluate ambiguous ideas quickly to determine feasibility and value
• Build practical 80/20 solutions that create leverage, then refine based on traction
• Own end-to-end execution: data exploration, modeling, experimentation, backend integration, and productization
• Partner with engineering, product, design, and leadership to turn ideas into shipped capabilities
• Use ML, analytics, heuristics, and automation pragmatically
• Define success metrics, instrument outcomes, and improve based on real-world usage
• Shape how GitKraken uses AI and data to improve developer workflows and product experience

Requirements

• Deep experience in ML, applied AI, or a hands-on product data role at Senior level
• Track record of shipping data/ML-powered capabilities into real products
• Comfort with messy problems and practical execution without structure
• Ability to work across the stack (not just notebooks)
• Strong product judgment and bias toward simple, measurable solutions
• Experience deciding if a problem needs ML, rules, analytics, automation, or workflow design
• Balance speed and rigor; know when "good enough to learn" is right
• Strong communication skills; explain tradeoffs to technical/non-technical partners
• Ownership mindset: don't wait for perfect specs; follow through from idea to impact

Bonus Points

• Built and shipped data/ML-powered features (not just analyses)
• Prototype quickly and refine after launch
• Avoid getting buried in edge cases before core value is proven
• Work in a company with bias toward action, accountability, and high ownership
• Want work to directly influence product direction and business outcomes

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with annual performance-based pay increases
• Flexible Paid-Time-Off Policy & paid company holidays
• Generous paid parental leave
• Pet insurance plan (with no exclusions)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance with competitive employer cost-sharing
• Modern, fully equipped offices for hybrid work
• Great Place to Work Certified
• Paid career development opportunities, audiobook subscriptions, mentorship
• 401(k) retirement plan plus company matching
• Company paid domestic trip after 1-year anniversary & international trip every 5 years

Application

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