Staff Data Scientist

Staff Data Scientist Location: San Francisco, CA (100% On-site) Compensation: $200,000 - $300,000 (Base Salary) + Equity We are a high-growth, well-funded AI company building the most advanced conversational AI agents for the enterprise, serving customers like Duolingo, Notion, and Rippling. We are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to bring deep technical rigor, advanced statistical methods, and analytical frameworks to our product and business strategy. This role requires a blend of strong analytical expertise, product acumen, and the ability to influence strategic decision-making at the highest levels. As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be the primary driver of data-driven decision-making and the experimentation culture across the entire company. Your work will directly inform product strategy and company performance. In this role, you will: Deep-Dive Analysis: Conduct rigorous, deep-dive analyses using advanced statistical methods on user behavior, product performance, and business outcomes to surface highly actionable insights. Experimentation: Design, implement, and analyze controlled A/B test experiments at scale to measure product changes and customer experience; be the champion for establishing and defining our experimentation culture. ML Model Evaluation: Evaluate and interpret the performance of ML models (e.g., classification, recommendation, LLM-based systems), helping product and engineering teams reason through trade-offs, limitations, and business implications. Data Strategy: Enhance and extend the company's data models, metrics, and dashboards to ensure consistent, scalable reporting across all teams. Infrastructure: Build and continuously improve the data stack, ensuring scalable models, pipelines, and tools that empower self-serve analytics across the company. Strategic Influence: Communicate findings clearly and persuasively to executives and cross-functional stakeholders, directly influencing product strategy and key business decisions. Requirements Experience: 5+ years (or equivalent experience) in data science or product analytics roles, ideally within high-scale consumer or marketplace products. Technical Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with a strong, foundational knowledge in statistics and experimental design. Problem Structuring: Strong ability to structure ambiguous problems, translate them into analytical approaches, and reliably deliver business impact through data. Experimentation Track Record: A proven history of designing, running, and analyzing A/B test experiments at scale. ML Fluency: Ability to reason about and analyze machine learning models (including understanding their assumptions, trade-offs, and impact on product outcomes). Communication: Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated experience influencing stakeholders and driving high-level decisions across diverse teams. Benefits Impact: A pivotal role in a rapidly scaling AI company with significant funding, directly shaping the trajectory of the product and business performance. Compensation: Highly competitive salary ($200,000 - $300,000) and equity participation. Influence: Opportunity to influence at the highest levels, working directly with product and engineering leaders. Work Policy: 100% On-site role, five days a week, in our San Francisco office, fostering strong technical and strategic collaboration. Tech Environment: Work with cutting-edge conversational AI agents and LLM-based systems. Team: Join a successful team serving industry-leading enterprise customers. Visa Support: Offers equity. (No specific visa sponsorship detail provided, please inquire during the screening process). 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