Almedia

Staff Data Scientist

Berlin. Posted a month ago

The role

A Staff Data Scientist will design causal frameworks, build experimentation infrastructure, and own high leverage models. You will provide technical leadership and work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Leadership.

What you will do

  • Design causal frameworks for unit economics, attribution, and intervention impact.
  • Build platforms for experimentation infrastructure.
  • Identify and own models for pricing, ranking, and user incentive systems.
  • Partner with engineering to productionize models.
  • Mentor junior data scientists.
  • Set the bar for causality, measurement, and trade offs.
  • Drive clarity when stakeholders disagree.
  • Work alongside Product, Engineering, and Leadership to turn data insight into business action.

Required qualifications

  • Track record moving unit economics through novel approaches.
  • Deep experience with causal inference techniques (propensity matching, DID, synthetic control, IV estimation).
  • Led complex multi-arm experiments.
  • Designed or owned MMM, MTA, or uplift modelling systems.
  • Understand type I and type II error costs.
  • Built and deployed models in product environments.
  • Own metrics, monitoring, and decay.
  • Comfortable with modern data stacks (dbt, Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform).
  • Drive clarity in ambiguous situations.
  • Translate complex analysis into decisions.

Nice to have

  • Experience in Gaming, AdTech, or user incentive systems

Benefits

  • Equity for every Berlin employee

About the company

Almedia is Germany’s fastest-growing company (FT1000) and is building the global leader in rewards. The company is bootstrapped and profitable from day one.