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Senior Data Scientist, Growth & Marketing

Descript, San Francisco, CA, United States


Our vision is to build the next generation platform to enable easy and fast creation of audio and video content powered by cutting-edge AI. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems.

As a founding data scientist and the owner for growth & marketing analytics, you will play a critical role in shaping our marketing strategy and the data science function.

What You’ll Do

  • Be in the driver seat to define marketing strategy and roadmap with leadership for paid, owned (website, lifecycle) and earned (SEO) channels.
  • Define critical KPIs and ensure a high standard for instrumentation and measurement.
  • Constantly improve marketing measurement, iterating on attribution models, and designing and analyzing experiments using proper statistical techniques to measure channel incrementality.
  • Proactively identify trends, patterns, and opportunities through data to improve day-to-day operations and drive user acquisition, activation, and retention.
  • Create models to score leads based on their likelihood to convert, helping sales and marketing teams prioritize high-value prospects.

What You Bring

  • A strategic thought partner that brings ideas and solutions to the table.
  • A simplifier who’s able to communicate with executive team effectively.
  • Extreme ownership and resourcefulness to get things done.
  • Deep understanding of ads platforms (Meta, Google, Microsoft), data enrichment, and reverse ETL process through a CDP such as Segment or RudderStack.
  • Strong working knowledge of randomized controlled experiments and quasi-experiments.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. computer science, mathematics, statistics, etc).
  • 5+ years of experience in a data scientist or related role.
  • Proficient in SQL and at least one programming language such as Python or R.
At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Data Scientist. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking a senior and above Data Scientist to join our team.

The base salary range for this role is $138,000- $190,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.

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