Staff Data Scientist (Notifications)

Join our team as a Staff Data Scientist focused on Notifications. In this role, you will develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decision making, optimize the user journey, and provide actionable analyses to improve our growth strategies. You will also serve as a thought partner to product, engineering, and ML leadership, improve machine learning models, and mentor other data scientists. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistics, machine learning, and experimentation, as well as excellent communication skills and experience working with cross-functional teams.

- Develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decision making, optimizing for the full user journey. - Act as a thought partner to product, engineering, and ML leadership on the Notifications team to prioritize/scope projects and inform the development of the notifications user experience. - Mentor the scope of work for other data scientists, demonstrating high-quality output of both yourself and others for whom you mentor.

- Strong background in statistics, machine learning, and/or experimentation - Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions - Proficiency in SQL/Hive - Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python/R) - Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams through compelling data narratives - Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience - 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data - Experience working closely with cross-functional teams, iterating on a user product via A/B experimentation - Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others