Staff Data Scientist

Asana • San Francisco, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Science team at Asana is pivotal in fulfilling our mission by fostering a data-driven approach in shaping both our product and business strategies. In your role on the Marketing Data Science team, you will be the deepest technical expert responsible for using data and scientific techniques to design and build scalable, state-of-the-art solutions to enhance Asana’s marketing effectiveness. You will drive the technical roadmap for data science, collaborating with marketing leadership and the broader Asana data community to uncover new opportunities. You will provide technical leadership and hands-on mentorship, elevating the team’s technical bar and influencing overall business strategy through best-in-class modeling and experimental design. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you’re interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

Requirements

• Deepest technical expert responsible for using data and scientific techniques to design and build scalable, state-of-the-art solutions to enhance Asana’s marketing effectiveness
• Drive the technical roadmap for data science
• Collaborate with marketing leadership and the broader Asana data community to uncover new opportunities
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on mentorship
• Elevate the team’s technical bar
• Influence overall business strategy through best-in-class modeling and experimental design
• Solution Architect for all core projects including Media Mix Modeling (MMM), User Lifetime Value, Causal Inferences, Multi-touch Attribution, and Spend Optimization engines
• Primary technical subject matter expert for the Marketing Data Science team
• Setting the technical bar for modeling quality, code rigor, data pipeline architecture, and solution scalability
• Pinpoint how data science can be further integrated into Asana’s business approach
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship and guidance to a team of data scientists at varying levels
• Help them navigate complex modeling challenges, choose appropriate methodologies, and establish robust ML Ops
• Develop and standardize MLOps tooling and processes that enable the team to deploy, monitor, and maintain multiple models in production efficiently and reliably
• Research, prototype, and advocate for emerging capabilities and state-of-the-art models in the marketing data science space
• Demonstrate their potential benefits and leading their implementation
• Take on a technical leadership role within the broader Asana Data Community
• Interact with Data Engineering and Platform teams to influence the data and MLOps infrastructure required to support marketing data products

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and lead the technical execution for the Marketing Data Science roadmap, serving as the Solution Architect for all core projects including Media Mix Modeling (MMM), User Lifetime Value, Causal Inferences, Multi-touch Attribution, and Spend Optimization engines
• Act as the primary technical subject matter expert for the Marketing Data Science team, setting the technical bar for modeling quality, code rigor, data pipeline architecture, and solution scalability
• Collaborate with marketing leadership to pinpoint how data science can be further integrated into Asana’s business approach
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship and guidance to a team of data scientists at varying levels, helping them navigate complex modeling challenges, choose appropriate methodologies, and establish robust ML Ops
• Develop and standardize MLOps tooling and processes that enable the team to deploy, monitor, and maintain multiple models in production efficiently and reliably
• Research, prototype, and advocate for emerging capabilities and state-of-the-art models in the marketing data science space, demonstrating their potential benefits and leading their implementation
• Take on a technical leadership role within the broader Asana Data Community, interacting with Data Engineering and Platform teams to influence the data and MLOps infrastructure required to support marketing data products

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching
• In-house culinary program
• Supportive parental leave policies
• Support for achieving personal and professional goals
• Opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact company success and challenge you
• Resources that support growth and team growth

What This Job Offers

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