Senior Data Scientist

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to build ML products that shape business strategy, optimize content, inform marketing investment decisions, and enhance the user experience. Key applications include identifying the drivers of retention, quantifying the impact of high-value user actions, forecasting content viewership, developing user segmentations for cohort-based targeting, and surfacing opportunities to enhance the user experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex business problems into coherent, actionable quantitative solutions.
• Implement, automate, and maintain reliable, performant, and end-to-end ML systems using software engineering and MLOps best practices.
• Deliver clear, impactful insights to stakeholders through effective communication.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the Product org to operationalize data science solutions that inform strategy and optimize the user experience.
• Promote best practices across the data science and product analytics team.

Key Projects

• Leverage 1st / 2nd / 3rd party data to build global models that predict user behavior throughout their subscription journey (e.g., sign-up, churn).
• Build models to identify and measure high-value user actions and drivers of habit formation.
• Develop session-level predictions to uncover user intent at the start of a session.
• Create user segmentations that enable meaningful cohort-based targeting and support near-personalized experiences.
• Perform diagnostic analyses such as evaluation of failed searches to surface opportunities for product improvement.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in Data Science and ML Engineering.
• MS or Ph.D in Statistics/Data Science/Computer Science or related disciplines with specialization in machine learning techniques.
• Experience with both supervised and unsupervised learning methodologies.
• Fully stack experience in data collection, aggregation, analysis, visualization, productionalization, and monitoring of data science products.
• Familiarity with well-known statistical and ML models and methods.
• Ability to innovate without over-engineering.
• Communicate concisely and persuasively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Strong detail orientation with a penchant for data accuracy.

Qualifications

• Experience using Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, ML Engine, and APIs).
• Experience with integrating AI solutions into existing business processes.
• Experience using project management tools like those from Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence).

Benefits

• Hiring Salary Range: $130,200.00 - 195,300.00.
• Bonuses are available.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO.
• Generous paid time off.
• On-site and virtual engagement events.
• Opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.

Pay

Hiring Salary Range: $130,200.00 - 195,300.00.

Schedule

Varies based on project needs and team dynamics.