Staff Data Scientist, Growth

The role

You will define and own how the company measures and grows across the customer journey. You will set technical direction for growth, build experimentation and metrics platforms, and work with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering.

What you will do

• Own the growth funnel end-to-end.
• Run the growth experimentation engine.
• Build retention/cohort analyses, churn and LTV models, CAC/payback and unit-economics views, and forecasts of core growth metrics.
• Measure what marketing and partnerships actually drive.
• Define and maintain activation, retention, engagement, and monetization metrics and a clear North Star.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to shape strategy.
• Create compelling visualizations and narratives to communicate growth insights.
• Help operationalize growth analytics and contribute to text-to-analytics.
• Mentor other data scientists and analysts and contribute to best practices.

Required qualifications

• Proven expertise in growth and/or product analytics and data science.
• Strong background in statistical analysis and experimentation.
• Hands-on experience with growth/funnel analytics including acquisition, activation, retention/churn, LTV/CAC, cohort analysis, and lifecycle/CRM analytics.
• Experience designing and building experimentation tooling and frameworks for A/B tests and causal-inference / incrementality analyses.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with marketing measurement—attribution, incrementality, or marketing-mix modeling

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. The company serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries.