Data Science Manager, Growth

Stripe • Seattle, NY

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About The Position

The Growth Data Science team helps businesses on Stripe get started both quickly and effectively. We work closely with Growth product and engineering leads to optimize every step of the user journey, from awareness and acquisition, through product adoption, to usage growth and retention. Our team is known for being an experimentation powerhouse, for pushing the frontiers of causal analysis and cumulative impact measurement, and for developing a deep understanding of the user journey that helps drive the product roadmap. We work closely with Growth Product and Engineering, and more broadly with Sales, Marketing, Developer Platform, Support, and Risk teams.

Requirements

• A PhD or MS or BS in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering).
• At least 3 years of direct management experience leading data science or ML teams, and 10 years of overall data science experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing metrics and guiding business decisions with data.
• Technical expertise to drive clarity with staff and senior scientists about architecture and strategic modeling decisions.
• Managed teams that have built and shipped machine learning systems and data products at scale, and have hands-on experience with challenging problems.
• Work very well cross-functionally, and are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs.
• Clear and persuasive communication skills in writing and verbally.
• Thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment.

Nice To Haves

• Comfortable working with geographically distributed teams
• Expertise in time series forecasting, predictive modeling, or optimization
• Expertise in data design and building scalable data architectures

Responsibilities

• Drive the roadmap and priorities for your team, and work with many Stripe leaders across the company to enhance our ability to be data driven.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as engineering, analytics, operations, finance, and marketing.
• Lead and manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Manage a high-performing team of data scientists, supporting them to achieve a high level of technical excellence and advance in their careers.
• Recruit and onboard great data scientists, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
• Contribute to broad data science initiatives as a member of Stripe’s data science management team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees