Senior Data Scientist

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

Who You Are

We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We're data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

Your Success Profile

• Lead end-to-end analytics projects, from defining metrics to analyzing data and delivering insights
• Partner with product leaders to define and measure goal metrics
• Design and analyze A/B tests, quasi-experiments, and causal analyses to measure the impact of product changes and help teams understand not just if something worked, but why
• Accelerate product learning cycles through frameworks for experimentation, measurement, and iteration so teams can move faster without sacrificing rigor
• Analyze strategic opportunities to inform roadmap prioritization
• Build compelling narratives from complex data, presenting findings in ways that influence decisions with both technical and non-technical audiences, from product pods to senior leadership
• Identify friction and opportunity across the customer lifecycle, from onboarding flows to feature adoption to retention signals, and translate what you find into actionable strategies
• Develop and apply AI-assisted approaches to analysis, insight delivery, and data workflows to multiply your impact and expand the reach of data science across the organization
• Partner with data engineering and analytics engineering to improve data foundations, instrument key events, and ensure the right data exists to answer the questions product teams are asking
• Perform other related responsibilities as needed based on department and/or organizational needs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a data scientist or analyst, with a track record of driving business impact through statistical analysis, experimentation, and predictive modeling
• Strong expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and statistical methods — you know how to draw defensible conclusions from imperfect data
• Excellent communication and data storytelling skills — you can translate complex findings into clear narratives that influence strategy and decisions at all levels of the organization
• Strong business acumen and the ability to connect analysis to product strategy, roadmap tradeoffs, and business outcomes
• Proficient in at least one statistical programming language (Python or R)
• Familiarity with a cloud-based data stack (e.g. Snowflake, dbt)
• Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a track record of applying them to accelerate analysis, improve rigor, or expand the reach of data science work
• Prior experience in a high-growth startup or SaaS company is preferred

Pay

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $166,000-$214,000 per year.

Benefits

Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

Diversity At Justworks

We’re committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.