Senior Data Scientist, Product

Summary

Join Thumbtack's Data Science team and leverage your critical thinking, interpersonal, and technical skills to make a positive impact. As a Data Scientist, you will embed with product teams, support new product feature launches, study the marketplace economics, and inform company strategy. You will be responsible for the analytical needs of engineers, designers, and product/marketing managers, empowering the team to build the best product quickly. The role involves proposing and conducting quantitative research, designing and analyzing experiments, partnering with product managers and engineers, defining and monitoring key metrics, developing topic area expertise, and contributing to the team's data culture. You will also collaborate with, mentor, and help recruit team members. Thumbtack offers a remote work opportunity and embraces diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data science, analytics or economics
• Experience managing stakeholders with competing priorities in areas such as Product Management, Design, Engineering and Marketing
• Experience scoping, analyzing, and communicating results of experiments
• Expert in SQL
• Strong communication skills and ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and with leadership
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree in a technical area such as: Statistics, Engineering, Analytics, Math, Computer Science, Operations Research, Economics

Responsibilities

• Propose and conduct quantitative research into key user behaviors, product flows, and business trends; based on analysis and in collaboration with cross-functional partners, identify potential new opportunities and next steps for the product team
• Design and analyze experiments and other tests for causal inference, in collaboration with engineers, applied scientists, and economists
• Partner with product managers, engineers, etc. to help scope new features, e.g., scenario modeling for possible impact on key metrics, make recommendations on business logic of new features, etc
• Define and monitor key metrics; investigate changes in metrics and propose next steps
• Develop topic area expertise, e.g., develop a deep understanding of how Thumbtack search works and interacts with other systems
• Contribute to our team and company data culture through accessible data table design and maintenance
• Collaborate with, mentor, and help recruit team members

Benefits

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