Staff Data Scientist, Marketing Science ($300k - $400k salary + bonus)

The role

You will own the mathematics behind paid growth by designing causal measurement, response curves, and customer-value models. You will build a marketing measurement system to decide how to allocate a multi-million-dollar acquisition budget.

What you will do

• Build a Bayesian marketing mix model with adstock and saturation
• Design and analyse geo-experiments, conversion-lift tests, holdouts and synthetic-control studies
• Estimate marginal ROAS and marginal CAC by channel
• Run constrained budget optimisation
• Build LTV, retention and payback models
• Build approaches for newer or opaque channels
• Work with the Head of Paid Acquisition & Performance Marketing to set test roadmaps
• Ship production-quality code
• Write decision memos for founders and operators

Required qualifications

• PhD, MSc or equivalent depth in mathematics, statistics, econometrics, physics or operations research
• 4+ years of hands-on experience (PhD research counts)
• Track record building marketing mix or advertising response models
• Hands-on causal inference
• Deep Bayesian modelling
• Strong Python or R in production
• Commercial judgment regarding incremental profit, LTV, CAC and payback
• Scrappy, high-energy operator mindset

Nice to have

• Contributions to open-source measurement tools
• Mobile app user acquisition
• Crypto experience

Benefits

• Generous performance bonus
• Token participation depending on level
• Relocation support to be confirmed

Before you apply

• For New York-based roles you must be authorized to work in the United States
• Please tell us in your application whether you will now or in the future require visa sponsorship

About the company

Baton Corporation builds and maintains pump.fun, a memecoin launchpad. The team is data-driven and works in person with intense pace and minimal bureaucracy.