Data Scientist - Quora (Remote)

Quora

6d•$122,000 - $173,117•Remote

About The Position

Quora is a remote-first company with a mission to grow the world's collective intelligence through its platforms: Quora, a global knowledge sharing platform, and Poe, a platform for interacting with AI language models. This role will be working on the Quora product. The Data Team at Quora is empowered to influence product and company strategy, emphasizing data-driven decision-making, a balance of rigor and pragmatism, and a culture of rational decision-making. Data scientists collaborate with cross-functional partners to define metrics, design experiments, build visualizations, and uncover usage patterns and opportunities. They work across various domains including user growth, content quality, monetization, personalization, marketplace dynamics, and company strategy. Example projects involve modeling growth, improving feed relevance, analyzing user engagement, optimizing marketplace efficiency, and evaluating monetization initiatives.

Requirements

Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
3+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 2+ as a Data Scientist or similar title
Demonstrated ability to independently drive data analyses that inform product or business decisions
Proficiency with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application
Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to cross-functional partners
Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase
Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense

Nice To Haves

Experience evaluating experiments or recommender systems in offline analysis and online experiments
Experience with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Presto/Trino)
Active Quora user with curiosity about the product

Responsibilities

Own well-scoped, impactful problem spaces across product and business domains — from framing the question, to conducting the analysis, to working with cross-functional partners to implement solutions
Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes
Analyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions with data
Contribute to tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data