Data Scientist, Analytics

Summary

Join Discord's Data Science & Analytics team and leverage your analytical skills and product intuition to solve complex problems. Partner with various teams throughout the data science analytics lifecycle, from ideation to A/B testing. Define KPIs and metrics to improve user experience, build dashboards, and monitor product features. Proactively share insights with technical and non-technical audiences. Champion A/B testing and collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable instrumentation. Discord offers a unique role in the future of gaming, making it easier and more fun for people to connect around games.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
• 2+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
• 2+ 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
• Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!

Responsibilities

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for Discord or online communities
• Experience with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups
• 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 in the user engagement and growth problems
• Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL
• Experience with writing production ETL

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits