Staff Data Scientist, Growth

Discord • San Francisco, CA

84d • $248,000 - $279,000

About The Position

Discord is seeking an experienced and passionate Staff Data Scientist to join our world-class Data Science & Analytics team! In this role, you will play a key part in helping Discord fulfill its mission of creating a sense of belonging in online communities. You’ll work closely with the teams that design, build, and support Discord, providing insights that directly influence user growth and enhance the user experience. If you’re driven by data, eager to make a meaningful impact, and excited to collaborate with an amazing team, we want to hear from you!

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analysis
• 7+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
• 6+ years experience writing robust, efficient and performant SQL
• 4+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of sound A/B tests in a fast-paced environment at scale
• Experience with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver complicated findings and explain technical approaches to a variety of audiences
• Ability to own complex projects from end-to-end, identifying the need for and coordinating cross-functional partnerships
• Aptitude to proactively identify gaps in data infrastructure, evaluate potential solutions, and coordinate cross-functionally to address issues
• A collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity

Nice To Haves

• Passion for Discord and/or online communities
• Experience with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV analysis, funnel analysis, etc.
• Experience with notification system/platform and lifecycle management.
• Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams throughout Discord through the full lifecycle of data science from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports, and A/B testing
• 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

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees