Automattic is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to drive cross-functional data initiatives at their globally distributed company, aiming to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging through data-informed decision-making for sophisticated products.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or a related role within a tech company, preferably SaaS, working with large-scale, complex, product-focused data sets to drive measurable business impact.
- Strong expertise in experimentation, statistical analysis (e.g., hypothesis testing, t-tests, regression analysis, time series analysis, bootstrapping), machine learning, and predictive modeling.
- Proficiency in Python and key data science libraries, including Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, and Seaborn.
- Fluency using distributed SQL query engines like Hive, Presto, or Trino.
- Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
Responsibilities
- Employ technical expertise in quantitative analysis, advanced statistics, experimentation, and data mining to develop data-driven strategies for products that democratize publishing and commerce.
- Proactively identify, define, and test opportunities and levers to enhance the product, ensuring data-driven decision-making that drives measurable business and customer impact.
- Translate insights into actionable recommendations that influence roadmaps and strategic investments.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of advanced data analysis techniques and statistical models across multiple business units.
- Design and drive company-wide data initiatives, shaping the direction of data analytics and insights to support strategic decisions.
- Partner with Growth, Product, Engineering, Design, and senior leadership to inform, influence, and execute product and growth strategies, leveraging key insights to drive measurable, company-wide impact.
- Communicate complex strategic insights and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders, facilitating data-driven decision-making at the highest levels of the company.
Other
- Mentor and guide data scientists and analysts.
- We are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
