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Senior Data Scientist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 8+ years experience using analytics to drive key business decisions
  • Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction
  • Significant experience with SQL

Responsibilities

  • Perform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design execute experiments
  • Create personalized segmentation strategies leveraging propensity models to enable targeting of offers and experiences based on user attributes
  • Identify key trends and build automated reporting executive-facing dashboards to track the progress of acquisition, monetization, and engagement trends
  • Monitor and analyze a high volume of experiments designed to optimize the product for user experience and revenue promote best practices for multivariate experiments

About the company

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Dropbox

Computer Software / SaaS

Dropbox is the one place to keep life organized and keep work moving. With more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, we're on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and has offices around the world. To learn more about working at Dropbox, visit dropbox.com/jobs We also have a few simple guidelines to keep this space respectful and productive. Please avoid: - Harassing other people or using language that’s hateful, offensive, vulgar, or advocates violence - Trolling, fraud and spamming - Violating someone else’s rights or privacy - Advertising or soliciting donations - Link baiting - Posting off topic comments or thread hijacking We may remove comments that violate these guidelines.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to partner with product, engineering, and design teams to answer key questions and drive impact in the Core Experience and Artificial Intelligence (AI) areas. This area focuses on improving key part of the core product through re-envisioning the home experience, cross platform experience, user onboarding, and building new functionality and launching high impact initiatives. We solve challenging problems and boost business growth through a deep understanding of user behaviors with applied analytics techniques and business insights. An ideal candidate should have robust knowledge of consumer lifecycle, behavior analysis, and customer segmentation. We’re looking for someone who can bring opinions and strong narrative framing to proactively influence the business. 

Responsibilities

  • Perform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experiments
  • Create personalized segmentation strategies leveraging propensity models to enable targeting of offers and experiences based on user attributes 
  • Identify key trends and build automated reporting & executive-facing dashboards to track the progress of acquisition, monetization, and engagement trends. 
  • Identify opportunities, advocate for new solutions and build momentum cross-functionally to move ideas forward that are grounded in data.
  • Monitor and analyze a high volume of experiments designed to optimize the product for user experience and revenue & promote best practices for multivariate experiments
  • Translate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Work with cross-functional teams (including Data Science, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, and senior executives) to rapidly execute and iterate

Requirements

  • Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 8+ years experience using analytics to drive key business decisions; examples include business/product/marketing analytics, business intelligence, strategy consulting
  • Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction
  • Significant experience with SQL 
  • Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression, decision trees
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong leadership and influence skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Product analytics experience in a SAAS company
  • Masters’ or above in a quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting and knowledge of statistical packages like R or Python is a plus

Durable Skills

AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it. We believe people with these skills will thrive as work and technology continue to evolve:

  • Awareness: Understand yourself and others.
  • Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations.
  • Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change.
  • Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust.

To learn more about why these skills matter and what the data shows about thriving through change, read this blog post from our Chief People Officer, Melanie Rosenwasser.

Compensation

US Zone 1
$193,000$261,000 USD
US Zone 2
$173,700$234,900 USD
US Zone 3
$154,400$208,800 USD

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