Role summary
We are seeking a Data Scientist to collaborate with product, engineering, and design teams to drive revenue growth, product optimization, and business scaling. This role involves analyzing user behavior, applying advanced analytics, and providing business insights for a SaaS company. Responsibilities include understanding customer journeys, performing deep-dive analyses, designing and executing experiments, creating segmentation strategies, building automated reports and dashboards, and monitoring experiment performance. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistical analysis, experimentation, SQL, and handling large datasets, with a proven ability to work independently and communicate complex findings effectively.
Role Description
We're looking for a Data Scientist to partner with product, engineering, and design teams to answer key questions about how to grow revenue, optimize product, scale and monetize the business, and launch high-impact initiatives. We solve challenging problems and boost business growth through a deep understanding of user behaviors with applied analytics techniques and business insights. An ideal candidate should have robust knowledge of consumer lifecycle and behavior analysis, customer segmentation, digital campaigns, monetization analytics and business operations for a SaaS company.
Responsibilities
Develop a deep understanding of customer journey phases and key business metrics
Perform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experiments
Inform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insights
Create personalized segmentation strategies leveraging propensity models to enable targeting of offers and experiences based on user attributes
Identify key trends and build automated reporting & executive-facing dashboards to track the progress of acquisition, monetization, and engagement trends.
Extract actionable insights through analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional customer behavior data sets
Monitor and analyze a high volume of experiments designed to optimize the product for user experience and revenue & promote best practices for multivariate experiments
Translate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Understand what matters most and prioritize ruthlessly
Work with cross-functional teams (including Data Science, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, and senior executives) to rapidly execute and iterate
Requirements
Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
3-5 years experience using analytics to drive key business decisions; examples include business/product/marketing analytics, business intelligence, strategy consulting
Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction
Significant experience with SQL and large unstructured datasets such as Hadoop
Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression, decision trees
Solid background in running multivariate experiments to optimize a product or revenue flow
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Proficiency in programming/scripting and knowledge of statistical packages like R or Python is a plus
Preferred Qualifications
Product analytics experience in a SAAS company
Masters’ or above in a quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Compensation
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