Senior Product Data Scientist in Causal Inference and ML, App Store

Apple • Culver City, CA

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About The Position

Services at Apple help hundreds of millions of customers get the most out of the
devices they love through amazing apps, award-winning shows and movies,
immersive music in spatial audio, world-class workouts and meditations, super
fun games and more! The Services Products Data Science & Analytics organization
is passionate about developing discerning insights and machine learning
solutions to help continually improve these services and accelerate growth while
maintaining a strong dedication to customer privacy.

Our team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to own and drive data-driven
strategy and deliver scalable ML and experimentation solutions for our product
and business teams. As a key member of our diverse and multi-faceted
organization, you will have the rare and exciting opportunity to work with
datasets of unique magnitude, richness, and dedication to customer privacy that
will frequently require innovative approaches. You will work collaboratively
with partners across Business, Marketing, Product, Content, and Engineering
daily to deliver material customer and business value. Our team is involved in
all stages of the product development lifecycle, from sizing, ideation, and
prioritization, to instrumentation and measurement, AB testing, and post-launch
feature evaluation and incremental impact assessment. We also work on diverse,
collaborative projects around personalization, app quality and review, user
segmentation, subscriptions, search, etc. and touch on many parts of the App
Store business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years experience extracting insights from large datasets, employing programming languages including Python and SQL.
• 7+ years experience employing statistical methods to tackle business problems related to classification, segmentation, forecasting, and customer lifetime value.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and scaling experimentation platforms, including hypothesis testing, metric tracking, and experimentation strategy.
• Strong expertise in causal inference methods including synthetic control, diff-in-diff, propensity score matching, and regression discontinuity design.
• Proven track record of building and deploying ML models that directly drive business decisions and product outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and influence cross-functional roadmaps at a senior level.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative field.
• Experience productionizing ML models in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Experience with LLMs and GenAI applications in a production or customer-facing context.
• Experience with distributed computing frameworks like Spark.
• Experience with Marketing Mix Models and matched market testing.

What This Job Offers

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