Harvey is looking for a Staff Data Scientist to set the foundation for data science at Harvey, understand users, evaluate product performance, and uncover growth opportunities to help scale the company rapidly across diverse customer profiles.
Requirements
- Proven track record of designing, executing, and analyzing rigorous experiments using SQL and Python, with the ability to translate results into actionable product recommendations
- Experience defining, implementing, and operationalizing feature- and product-level metrics from the ground up
- Experience with or knowledge of AI and LLMs
- Experience at world-class enterprise orgs (ex: Brex, Ramp, Stripe, Palantir)
Responsibilities
- Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover product, customer, and market insights that inform strategy and drive measurable business impact.
- Design, implement, and evaluate experiments - including A/B tests and advanced causal inference methods - to guide product decisions and optimize outcomes.
- Define, track, and evolve core metrics across product and business functions, building scalable dashboards and reporting frameworks that enable data-driven decision-making.
- Apply statistical and machine learning techniques to model user behavior, forecast trends, and identify opportunities for growth and optimization.
- Translate complex analyses into compelling stories, delivering clear recommendations to product managers, engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners.
- Partner with Engineering to co-develop data infrastructure, ensuring robust pipelines, reliable data sources, and scalable systems that power analytics and modeling.
- Lead cross-functional analytics initiatives that synthesize competitive dynamics, customer feedback, and market trends into actionable opportunities for the business.
Other
- 5+ years of experience in quantitative roles operating in highly ambiguous environments, ideally as an early data scientist or product analyst within a hyper-growth product company or research organization
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively partner with product managers, engineers, and executives
- Strategic mindset capable of generating insights that extend beyond traditional statistical significance testing to inform long-term product and business direction
- Early employee at a hyper-growth startup
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing interview-help@harvey.ai
