Staff Data Scientist
About the role
We're looking for a Staff Data Scientist to own the product modeling roadmap and contribute to marketing measurement. You'll design, build, and deploy production ML models, partnering closely with PMs to scope and prioritize. The right candidate defines what to model before anyone asks, stress-tests their own assumptions, and communicates uncertainty in terms stakeholders can act on.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of ML models powering product experiences, coverage recommenders, user-to-channel routing, and agent assignment logic
Engineer features, prototype experiments, and ship iterative model improvements to production
Work with engineering and PMs to define how model scores are consumed in real-time product surfaces
Qualifications and Skills:
5+ years in data science or ML at established firms or high-growth tech
Strong command of supervised learning and recommendation systems; you've shipped production models, not just notebooks
Proficiency in Python (pymc, scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM) and SQL
Hands-on Bayesian experience: prior elicitation, posterior inference, and experiment design
Experience deploying production models integrated with consumer-facing products
Strong communication skills; able to translate model behavior and uncertainty into stakeholder recommendations
Bias toward ownership; you identify what needs to be built before anyone files a ticket
Recommender systems or personalization at scale
Causal inference: diff-in-diff, uplift modeling, instrumental variables
Marketing mix modeling, media attribution, or incrementality measurement
Experience in insurtech, fintech, or other regulated industries
dbt or data pipeline experience
MLflow, feature stores, or other ML infrastructure tooling
Gets in the weeds without losing the bigger picture
Knows the tradeoffs between simple heuristics and ML solutions and picks the right tool for the job
Aligns model performance metrics to business objectives and combines multiple models into a coherent solution
Raises the team's data science bar through code review, documentation, and mentorship
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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $127,000 - $224,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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