Data Scientist, Product

Mirage is redefining short-form video with frontier AI research.

We’re building full-stack foundation models and products that are changing the future of this format and video creation, production and editing more broadly. Over 20 million creators and businesses use Mirage’s products to reach their full creative and commercial potential.

We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. As an early member of our team, you’ll have an opportunity to have an outsized impact on our products and our company's culture.

Our Products

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(for consumers)

Mirage Studio

(for scale)

Our Technology

AI Research @ Mirage

Mirage Model Announcement

Seeing Voices (white-paper)

Press Coverage

Lenny’s Podcast

Forbes AI 50

Fast Company

Our Investors

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.

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Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)_

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About the Role:

As a member of our Data Science staff, you’ll own end-to-end measurement by defining north-star metrics, architecting rigorous experiments, and converting insights into roadmap-shaping decisions. You’ll partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to elevate instrumentation and data quality and deliver quantified recommendations that improve activation, engagement, retention, and revenue.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead analysis and exploration to uncover trends in product and user behavior and prioritize the highest leverage opportunities
• Design and evaluate rigorous A/B tests and set success criteria and power and guardrails and deliver clear post experiment readouts
• Collaborate with cross functional leaders to define core metrics and establish data driven goals for product experimentation
• Develop and maintain analytical models and reproducible pipelines that support full funnel analytics
• Apply statistical techniques to identify patterns and opportunities in large datasets and quantify expected impact and risk
• Create executive ready visualizations and dashboards that drive alignment and action among stakeholders
• Embed with designers and engineers to guide instrumentation and ensure data informed decisions throughout the product lifecycle
• Provide recommendations to improve user experience and conversion and overall product performance and track realized impact
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies in analytics and introduce pragmatic improvements to tools and methods

Requirements:

• 5+ years as a data scientist or in a similar role with a focus on product analytics
• High proficiency in SQL and either Python or R for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling
• Expertise in statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and experimental design for A/B testing and product experimentation
• In-depth knowledge of data visualization tools and techniques to effectively communicate insights and storytelling
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to partner with cross-functional teams to build a great business

Bonus Points:

• Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related)
• Full-funnel analytics experience, including data collection, cleaning, transformation, analysis, and performance measurement
• Familiarity with modern data warehousing and large-scale data processing; comfortable working with very large datasets and distributed computing frameworks

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch multiple days per week
• Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!
• Doordash DashPass subscription
• Health & Wellness Perks (Talkspace, Kindbody, One Medical subscription, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc)
• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
• Generous PTO policy

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.