Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join Discord's Data Science & Analytics team and contribute to improving the user experience for over 200 million monthly users. As an Analytics Data Scientist, you will partner with various teams, define key performance indicators (KPIs), build dashboards and reports, conduct A/B testing, and proactively share insights. You will leverage your expertise in data analysis, visualization, and SQL to solve complex problems and improve Discord's platform. The role requires extensive experience in data analysis, dashboard creation, A/B testing, and excellent communication skills. Discord offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
• 4+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
• 3+ 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
• 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

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + equity + benefits