Senior/Staff Data Scientist

The role

You will serve as a strategic analytics partner across Product, Growth, Go-to-Market, and Finance. You will turn ambiguous questions into rigorous analysis and define measurement frameworks to drive business decisions.

What you will do

• Serve as a strategic analytics partner to leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Define meaningful metrics and measurement frameworks.
• Turn data into strategy by identifying patterns and opportunities.
• Shape the approach to experimentation and evaluation.
• Partner with teams to define instrumentation and measurement plans.
• Build and maintain dbt models and semantic layers.
• Establish analytical best practices and mentor others.
• Explore how AI-assisted tools can make analytics faster and more accessible.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of analytics experience.
• Strong business and product judgment.
• Experience defining and using metrics across business domains.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Experience using experimentation, statistical analysis, or other rigorous evaluation methods.
• Experience with modern analytics tooling such as Metabase, Mixpanel, dbt, BigQuery, Segment, and Git.
• Track record of influencing cross-functional teams and senior leaders without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding or analytics tools such as Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code.

Nice to have

• Expertise in statistical methods beyond traditional A/B testing, such as causal inference, cohort and survival analysis, or time-series analysis.
• Experience with developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or other technically complex products.
• Experience analyzing multi-product or multi-segment businesses.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• FSAs and HSAs available.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.
• Home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Before you apply

• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
• At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers.
• Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

About the company

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide.