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This hands-on role as an early member of Cursor's data team involves partnering with leadership to prioritize growth, working across the entire data stack, and driving product strategy. The goal is to help users quickly recognize Cursor's value and increase their usage. Key responsibilities include designing experiments for user activation and subscription tiers, building foundational datasets for user segmentation, evaluating tier health, and analyzing user-AI interactions to drive growth and financial metrics. The role requires a pragmatic individual who can translate data into actionable decisions.

<h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Role</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">As an early member of Cursor’s data team, this will be a hands-on role: partner with leadership to establish growth as a company priority, work hands-on with the entire data stack, and drive product strategy that helps our users quickly see Cursor's value and grow their usage.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Sample projects include:</p><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Designing and analyzing experiments to help users activate earlier and land on the right subscription tier.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Building foundational datasets and models to segment users and customers.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Evaluating the health of each tier and identifying opportunities for tier differentiation.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Understanding user–AI interactions in Cursor and how they drive growth and financial metrics.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">You might be a fit if...</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">You're scrappy, pragmatic, and thrive in environments where you can work across multiple product areas at once.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You’ve worked directly on Growth, especially product-led or pricing initiatives, and you know how to turn data into decisions that move metrics.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">What you'll do...</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Partner with area leads in Growth, Enterprise, Finance, and Product to shape data-informed decisions across the business.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Define, track, and own metrics like conversion and self-serve revenue that multiple teams and leadership depend on.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Run experiments end-to-end: design, analyze, and translate into clear product recommendations.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Build pipelines, dashboards, and analyses that make self-serve insights accessible and trustworthy.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Establish data culture and foundations as an early member of the data team.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">You should apply if...</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">You have at least 4+ years of full-time data science experience.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You’ve been an early data scientist at a hyper-growth startup or research org.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You know how to be scrappy and ship insights across multiple product areas.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You’ve worked on Growth, especially product-led or pricing-related growth.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You’ve worked with subscription businesses, moving customers up tiers or optimizing revenue.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You’re fluent in SQL and Python, and can write pipelines to unblock yourself.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You have strong opinions about AB testing, conversion funnels, and growth accounting.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You can turn complex data into clear insights and stories for engineers, PMs, and execs.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">You care deeply about accuracy and detail.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Bonus points</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Hands-on experience with dbt and analytics engineering.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Machine learning applied to growth problems: LTV prediction, churn modeling, attribution.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience working on productivity software or AI tooling.</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">About</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We're Anysphere, the team behind <a href="https://cursor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Cursor</a>.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We're a group of engineers and scientists who've built beloved products, created large OSS projects, started at-scale businesses, won olympiad medals, and published significant research (e.g. <a href="https://github.com/tmm1" target="<em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">tmm1</a>, <a href="https://shaoruu.io/" target="</em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">ian</a>, <a href="https://lukemelas.github.io/" target="<em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">luke</a>, <a href="https://philkrav.com/posts/speculative/" target="</em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">phil</a>, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n8tK15oAAAAJ&hl=en" target="<em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">federico</a>, <a href="https://www.cursor.com/blog/llama-inference" target="</em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">aman</a>, <a href="https://www.sualehasif.me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">sualeh</a>).</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truthseeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We're in-person with cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco and Manhattan, New York, replete with well-stocked libraries. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, John Schulman, and the founders of Stripe and Github.</p><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Applying</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Join us to build the future of coding</h3><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Help us advance the research that powers AI-assisted development</p>

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