Senior Data Scientist, Marketing and Personalization
Fanatics · San Mateo County, CA · 4 days ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
What You Will Do
- Work on data science projects across marketing and customer domains, including personalization, lifecycle optimization, retention, and engagement
- Build, validate, and deploy machine learning and statistical models for use cases such as propensity modeling, segmentation, and LTV
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (Marketing, Product, CRM, Engineering) to understand business problems and translate them into data science solutions
- Contribute to the end-to-end model development lifecycle, including data exploration, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation, and deployment
- Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement in customer experience and marketing performance
- Apply appropriate statistical methods and experimentation techniques to evaluate model performance and business impact
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure models are production-ready and integrated into downstream systems
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Contribute to team-level best practices in modeling, code quality, and documentation
- Support and mentor junior team members through collaboration and knowledge sharing
What You Bring to the Team
- BS or higher in a technical or quantitative field (Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, etc.)
- 5+ years of hands-on work in marketing data science or related areas
- Experience building and deploying machine learning models in production environments
- Strong foundation in statistics and machine learning
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience working on large datasets
- Experience working with customer or marketing-related data (e.g., personalization, segmentation, LTV, or experimentation)
- Ability to work on moderately complex problems with some guidance
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Bonus Points
- Experience with marketing analytics or customer lifecycle use cases
- Familiarity with experimentation and measurement (e.g., A/B testing, basic causal inference concepts)
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across Marketing, Product, and Engineering
- Experience with large-scale data processing tools (e.g., Spark)
- Track record of delivering business impact through data science projects