Senior Data Scientist

### Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
- You have experience working on a content feed, ranking system, or recommendation platform — you understand retrieval, scoring, and the tradeoffs involved in optimizing for multiple objectives
- You are an experimentation expert, especially with A/B testing on ranking or recommendation changes, and possess a very strong statistical inference skillset
- You have experience building metrics and reporting infrastructure that teams rely on as a source of truth (dashboards, data quality pipelines, alerting)
- You have solid analytical thinking — you dig into cross-platform inconsistencies, engagement anomalies, and data quality issues until you find the root cause
- You have experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- You are a SQL expert and have experience in Python or R to perform statistical analyses
- You have a track record of building strong relationships with product, ML engineering, and data engineering teammates
- You have a growth mindset and aspire to continuously improve your soft and technical skills
- You are an expert communicator with a love for clarity and simplicity

### What the job involves
- The Relevance team owns feed ranking and recommendations across Patreon's core surfaces — Home Feed, Membership Feed, Post Page Recommendations, and Niches
- We're building the systems that decide what content fans see and in what order, with the goal of making every fan's experience on Patreon feel personally relevant
- Our cross-functional pod includes ML Engineers, Product Managers, Backend Engineers, Client Engineers, and Data Scientists working together to improve content discovery, deepen fan engagement, and drive creator monetization
- We're at an exciting inflection point: our ranking and recommendation systems are being built largely from scratch, which means you'll have outsized influence on the technical direction and measurement frameworks that shape how millions of fans discover creators
- You'll own the analytics foundation for Patreon's feed — building and maintaining the trustworthy metrics infrastructure that powers dashboards, experiment analysis, ML training data, and leadership reporting
- You'll design and analyze ranking experiments across Home Feed, Membership Feed, Post Page Recs, and Niches, working closely with ML Engineers to evaluate relevance changes and new ranking signals
- You'll conduct exploratory analyses to surface data-backed hypotheses about feed health, content mix, engagement patterns, and discovery conversion — and translate those into actionable ranking improvements
- You'll develop feed health and engagement dashboards with drill-downs by surface, user segment, platform (iOS vs. Android), and feed version
- You'll be a thought partner to Product and ML Engineering, helping the team prioritize ranking experiments and measure what matters — from scroll depth and CTR to Discovery Attributed TPV
- You'll be a cultural and technical leader on the data science team

### Benefits
- Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans are available to our US employees and their dependents. Our plans have a nationwide network and we also cover a primary care concierge membership.
- Balance & Wellness: We offer a generous Flexible Time Off policy, in addition to days throughout the year where everyone takes the same day off to recharge our batteries. Employees and their dependents also have access to therapy, coaching, and Employee Assistance Programs services.
- Family Planning: We provide 20 weeks of paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits, as well as an annual stipend for new additions to your families (including pets!).
- Lifestyle & Learning: You’ll have stipends to fund your personal lifestyle and to support your favorite creators on Patreon, as well as an annual stipend for learning and development.
- Hybrid Work: Our offices are in San Francisco, New York, and Porto. Plus, we have more teammates working remotely around the world.
- Financial Support: We offer employer matching for our retirement plans and Health Savings Account (HSA), as well as access to 1:1 financial guidance with a Certified Financial Planner.