Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist)

San Francisco. Posted 8 months ago

The role

You will turn product questions into clear decisions by analyzing user behavior and designing experiments. You will work across product, engineering, growth, design, and user research to define metrics and identify opportunities.

What you will do

Develop product insights to inform product roadmap and improve user experience
Design and analyze experiments including A/B tests and interpreting results
Build metrics, guardrails, dashboards, and reporting workflows
Partner across engineering, product, growth, design, and user research
Build reusable data assets like tables, models, and documentation
Use AI to automate recurring analysis and build AI-assisted workflows
Communicate findings, assumptions, uncertainty, and recommendations

Required qualifications

6+ years of experience as a data scientist or closely related role
Strong product sense
SQL expertise
Experimentation depth
AI-native working style
Metrics and dashboard experience
Comfort with ambiguity
End-to-end ownership

Nice to have

Experience with dbt, data modeling, or analytics engineering
Python experience for analysis, automation, or internal tools
Experience with Snowflake, especially performance and cost-aware querying
Experience combining qualitative user research with quantitative product analysis
Experience as one of the first data scientists at an early or growth-stage company
ML experience or experience working across multiple product surfaces

About the company

Perplexity is AI for people who expect more.