Staff Data Scientist

1 Month ago • All levels • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Data Scientist at Patreon, you'll conduct analyses across the business to inform company and team strategies. This includes quantitative research for product and company-level decisions, designing metrics, devising experiments, and building models to optimize the business. You will collaborate with machine learning and data engineering teams on data products and translate data into actionable insights for various stakeholders, including executive leadership. A strong statistical inference skillset and experience with A/B testing are crucial, along with expertise in SQL and Python/R for statistical analysis and machine learning. You'll build relationships with cross-functional teams and act as a technical and cultural leader.
Must have:
  • Experimentation expertise
  • Strong statistical inference
  • SQL expertise
  • Python/R proficiency
  • Data analysis & modeling
  • Cross-functional collaboration
Perks:
  • Competitive benefits package
  • Equity plans
  • Healthcare
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Company holidays
  • Commuter benefits
  • Lifestyle stipends
  • Learning & development stipends
  • Parental leave
  • 401k plan with matching

Job Details

Patreon is a media and community platform where creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. Over 300k creators are cultivating fandoms and building their businesses each month. Creators can offer free memberships to fans looking to explore more of their work, paid memberships to give access to exclusive media and community, or sell directly to fans with Shops.

Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:

  • 8B+ earned since Patreon's inception

  • 30M free new memberships in the first year of launching that option, and

  • 10M fans paying each month for exclusive access to creators' work and community.

We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator products with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to support our mission

This role is based in San Francisco or in New York and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.

About the Role

  • In the Ecosystem Data Scientist role, you will conduct analyses that cut across the business to provide insights that inform company-level and team-level strategy

  • You’ll conduct quantitative research to inform product and company level strategy, design metrics to help track goals and make decisions, devise learning methods (including experiments) to test hypotheses, build models to optimize our business and work closely with our machine learning and data engineering teams on building MVP user-facing data products. 

  • You'll translate data into actionable insights and communicate your technical work to the data team, your cross-functional partners, executive leadership, and the rest of the company. 

  • You’ll be a cultural and technical leader on the data science team. 

About You

  • You have a wealth of experience helping product teams make great decisions with data.

  • You are an experimentation expert and possess a very strong statistical inference skillset. 

  • You have solid analytical thinking. You ask the right questions and strive to see beyond the numbers to understand what an analysis represents in terms of real-world applications. 

  • You have experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy.

  • You are a SQL expert and have experience in Python or R to perform statistical analyses and build machine learning models

  • You have a track record of building strong relationships with product, engineering, research, and design teammates.

  • You have a growth mindset and aspire to continuously improve your soft and technical skills.

  • You are an expert communicator with a love for clarity and simplicity.

About Patreon

Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:

  • Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win. 

  • Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.

  • Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver. 

  • Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.

Compensation Range: $227.2K - $340.8K

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