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Staff Data Scientist

Recruiting From Scratch
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$250,000,300,000 - $250,000,300,000 USD yearly
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Title of Role: Staff Data Scientist
Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)
Company Stage of Funding: Series C
Office Type: On-site, 5 days/week
Salary: $250,000–$300,000 base; equity eligible; comprehensive benefits

Company Description

We are a third-party recruiting partner representing a fast-growing enterprise AI company building production-grade conversational agents used by well-known brands. Backed by top-tier investors and recently funded at Series C, the company is scaling quickly and is investing in a world-class data function to drive product strategy and measurable business impact.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the design, implementation, and interpretation of rigorous experiments (A/B and multivariate) to inform product and customer experience decisions.

  • Perform deep-dive analyses on user behavior, product performance, and business outcomes; translate findings into clear recommendations.

  • Define and evolve core metrics, data models, and dashboards to ensure consistent, trustworthy reporting across teams.

  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership to embed measurement best practices into development cycles and launch reviews.

  • Evaluate and help reason about machine-learning systems (including LLM-based features): clarify assumptions, trade-offs, and business implications.

  • Contribute to the modern analytics stack (e.g., pipelines, modeling, and self-serve tools) that empowers company-wide decision-making.

  • Communicate insights to executive and cross-functional audiences in a concise, persuasive way.

Ideal Candidate Background

  • 5+ years of experience in data science or product analytics with a track record of driving measurable product impact.

  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, and strong foundations in statistics and experimental design.

  • Demonstrated experience designing, running, and analyzing experiments at scale for consumer, marketplace, or enterprise products.

  • Ability to analyze and interpret ML model behavior, limitations, and impact on user outcomes.

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable influencing product direction.

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science) or equivalent practical experience.

  • Ability to work on-site in San Francisco (five days per week).

Preferred

  • Experience building/maintaining analytics data models and metrics layers (e.g., dbt) and orchestrating pipelines (e.g., Airflow).

  • Familiarity with modern warehouses/BI (e.g., Snowflake/BigQuery, Looker/Mode) and large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark).

  • Prior work evaluating LLM or recommendation systems and developing evaluation frameworks for AI/ML features.

  • Background in high-scale products with strong experimentation cultures.

  • Experience mentoring other analysts/scientists and elevating experimentation/measurement practices.

Compensation, Benefits, and Other Details

  • Base Salary: $250,000–$300,000, based on skills, experience, and interview performance.

  • Equity: Role is equity-eligible.

  • Benefits: Our client offers a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, parental leave, retirement savings options, and commuter support. Specifics will be discussed during the interview process.

  • Work Authorization: Candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Work authorization and any sponsorship availability will be discussed confidentially with the recruiting team.