Senior Data Scientist, Analytics (Nitro Perks)

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Discord

Posted:

August 22, 2023

Hybrid

Job Commitment

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Workplace Type

Hybrid

Job Function

Data & Analytics

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About the position

Discord is seeking an experienced and passionate data scientist to join their Data Science team. The role involves collaborating with various teams to analyze data, define key performance indicators, and build dashboards and reports. The data scientist will also be responsible for conducting A/B tests and providing actionable insights to improve the user experience. Strong communication skills and proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools are required. The ideal candidate should have a collaborative attitude and a desire to work with a team dedicated to solving challenging problems and improving Discord.

Responsibilities

Partner with teams through the full lifecycle of data analytics from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports

Define KPIs and diagnostic metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information

Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes

Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve

Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly

Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation

Requirements

4+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
4+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
3+ years experience writing excellent SQL
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complicated findings or technical approaches in easy-to-understand ways
2+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of A/B tests in a large data environment
A desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord
A collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity
Passion for Discord or online communities (bonus point)
Experience with writing production ETL (bonus point)
Experience with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups (bonus point)
Experience with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV/user-lifecycle analysis, funnel analysis, etc (bonus point)
Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL (bonus point)

Benefits

Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
14+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
Volunteer time off
A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

Learn more about Discord employee perks and benefits.