Discord is seeking an experienced and passionate Staff Data Scientist to join their Data Science & Analytics team to help fulfill Discord's mission of creating a sense of belonging in online communities by providing insights that directly influence user growth and enhance the user experience.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analysis
- 7+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
- 6+ years experience writing robust, efficient and performant SQL
- 4+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of sound A/B tests in a fast-paced environment at scale
- Experience with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups
- Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL
Responsibilities
- Partner with teams throughout Discord through the full lifecycle of data science from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports, and A/B testing
- Define KPIs and diagnostic metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information
- Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes
- Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve
- Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly
- Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation
Other
- Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties).
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver complicated findings and explain technical approaches to a variety of audiences
- Ability to own complex projects from end-to-end, identifying the need for and coordinating cross-functional partnerships
- Aptitude to proactively identify gaps in data infrastructure, evaluate potential solutions, and coordinate cross-functionally to address issues
- Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!
