Duolingo is looking for a Data Scientist to join their Data Science & Analytics team to focus on data modeling and insights to power User Growth. The role aims to analyze the impact of product changes on business performance metrics, communicate these insights, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve the app through experimentation.
Requirements
- Advanced SQL skills to build datasets that enable ad-hoc analyses and efficient visualization
- Expertise in data visualization tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Hex, or Looker for full-stack data analysis, insight synthesis, and presentation
- Professional or academic experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and/or causal inference
- Experience in programming (e.g., Python, R) to extract, transform, clean, and analyze large amounts of data
- Experience training machine learning models and deploying them in production
- Familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, a knack for prompt engineering, and a desire to continue to innovate and learn in AI
Responsibilities
- Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results
- Embed in teams with product managers and engineers to design, run, and analyze experiments to improve user experiences
- Apply advanced analytical methods to model user behavior and estimate the impact of potential new features. Partner with product and engineering teams to develop and implement solutions
- Build dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts (e.g., Sigma, Tableau, Plotly) to analyze trends, make recommendations, and help preserve our culture of fact-based decision making as we scale
- Collaborate with other data scientists to level up our company's scientific capabilities and data footprint
- Ensure the quality of our tracking and data collection is high (and improving)
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics, Information Systems)
- Relevant experience in data science, advanced data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field
- Outstanding problem-solving abilities and the capacity to distill complex data into concise explanations and actionable insights
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills that facilitate collaboration with both technical and non-technical partners
- Ability to relocate to and work in our Pittsburgh office
