Principal Data Scientist

The role

Own the data function end to end as the most senior data scientist. Define how learner improvement is measured, run the experimentation program, and build the data foundation for internal and customer-facing analytics.

What you will do

• Own the measurement strategy: define the metrics that show whether learners are improving
• Design and run the experimentation program, including A/B tests, holdouts and LLM evaluation
• Build the data foundation: pipelines, semantic layer, dashboards and models
• Partner with product, design and engineering to turn ambiguous questions into analyses that change what ships
• Work with customers' BI and enablement teams to show the impact of Yoodli
• Build models that turn communication signal into product value, such as scoring, skill progression, benchmarking and churn or expansion prediction
• Translate analysis into recommendations for executives and the board
• Set the technical bar for data, review others' analyses and mentor engineers and PMs on experiment design
• Lay the groundwork for a data team, which may be built over time

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in data science, product analytics or a closely related field
• Time as the most senior data person on a product or business line
• Deep expertise in SQL and Python, with experience shipping production-grade analytical code
• Track record of running an experimentation program: power analysis, sequential testing, guardrail metrics
• Experience evaluating LLM or other generative systems, including eval sets, rubrics and quality measurement without clean ground truth
• Fluency with modern data stacks (dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery) and BI tools (Looker, Mode, Hex or similar)
• Demonstrated influence on product strategy at the executive level
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to be on-site at the Seattle, WA office Monday, Tuesday and Thursday

Nice to have

• Speech analytics, NLP or conversational AI experience
• Embedded or customer-facing analytics experience
• Early-stage startup experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Flexible work environment
• Collaborative, inclusive team with room to grow

Before you apply

• Must be based in the Greater Seattle Area

About the company

Yoodli is a venture-backed company building an AI Platform for Human Skills that helps people get better at communicating in their careers. The company is headquartered in Seattle and serves customers including Google Cloud, Snowflake and Databricks.