Staff Data Scientist, Notifications

we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

- Develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decision making, optimizing for the full user journey. Product recommendations. Clearly communicate recommendations to product and engineering leadership on how we can evolve our Notifications strategy to address shortcomings observed through deep analysis.

Opportunity sizing and analysis. Write clear, actionable analyses that help teams identify areas of improvement to our growth strategies.

- 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 and corresponding ML systems.

- Improve machine learning models which power notifications delivery and content, via direct contributions, new features/signals, and/or compelling analyses.

- Leadership: Mentor the scope of work for other data scientists, demonstrating high-quality output of both yourself and others for whom you mentor.

- 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data

- Strong background in statistics, machine learning, and/or experimentation

- Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python/R)

- Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions.

- Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams through compelling data narratives.

- 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

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.

- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

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