Staff Data Scientist

Way • Austin, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Way is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to help build the intelligence layer that will shape the future of Way. This role involves transforming platform data into trusted insights, models, and decision systems to enhance various product aspects like pricing, merchandising, personalization, forecasting, recommendations, and automation. It's a hands-on, staff-level individual contributor position with broad ownership across data science and analytics engineering. The successful candidate will collaborate with Product and Engineering to establish the data foundation, identify high-impact problems, develop and validate solutions, and implement them into production. This role is for someone excited to build from the ground up in an ambiguous environment and play a foundational role in how Way utilizes data and intelligence.

Requirements

• Significant experience applying data science to real product, marketplace, commerce, or customer problems, with a record of shipping models, experiments, or decision systems that drove measurable business impact.
• Experience building a data and analytics foundation from the ground up - from raw operational and behavioral data through pipelines, modeling, business definitions, and production-ready datasets.
• Expert SQL and strong Python skills, with strong foundations in statistics, experimentation, forecasting, and model evaluation.
• Experience working at a high-growth startup or similarly fast-moving environment, where you’ve operated with ambiguity, moved quickly, and taken ownership beyond a narrowly defined role.
• Strong product judgment: you can take an ambiguous business problem, turn it into a testable question, and choose the simplest rigorous approach capable of answering it.
• High ownership and clear communication, with the ability to work closely with product and engineering from exploration through production.

Responsibilities

• Play a foundational role in the future of Way by building the data and intelligence layer that will ultimately power smarter decisions across every aspect of our product - from pricing and merchandising to personalization, forecasting, and automation.
• Build and own Way’s data and analytics foundation, bringing together product, transactional, customer, and partner data into reliable, reusable data products.
• Establish the core metrics, data models, and definitions that give Way and our customers a consistent, trustworthy understanding of their business.
• Identify high-impact opportunities to apply data science and machine learning across the Way platform, then build and ship models, experiments, and decision systems that create measurable value.
• Partner closely with product and engineering to turn data and models into real product capabilities - progressing from insights, to recommendations, to intelligent automation as the evidence supports it.
• Set a high bar for analytical rigor and responsible use of data, clearly communicating what the evidence supports, where uncertainty exists, and where better data is needed.

Benefits

• competitive salary calibrated to experience
• meaningful equity in a sustainably growing company with real value creation already realized
• full health, dental, and vision coverage
• direct access to the world’s most recognized consumer brands and the mandate to move quickly on their behalf
• the best available tools, and the expectation that you use them to raise your own ceiling
• an annual hotel and travel stipend at the properties and partners in Way’s global ecosystem

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed