Staff Data Scientist - Research & Analytics

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Slack is hiring a staff data scientist for our AI product team. We are a cross-functional team that is building an AI-powered Slack experience to unlock the collective knowledge of an organization and give new efficiency superpowers to teams. Imagine being able to tap into your company's wealth of knowledge with ease - finding, summarizing and sharing information faster than ever before!

You will use data to help the team discover opportunities and define appropriate solutions to user problems by performing research into user behavior, defining and applying experimentation standards, and understanding the drivers of performance. You will advise and influence decisions using data and research, by crafting our findings into narratives and partnering with key decision makers. You will be a strong partner to researchers with varying backgrounds, including user researchers, market researchers, and survey scientists.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative.

Responsibilities

• Identify and drive improvements to the execution of the full Research + Analytics team through standardization of process, authoring new standard methodologies, mentorship and cultivation of new expertise.
• Designing new datasets and metrics to be added to our data model.
• Applying data science methods to understanding the most important aspects of our AI product, users, and business.
• Evangelizing evidence-based decision making by partnering with key decision makers and driving general accessibility of data and insights.

Requirements

• A related technical degree required
• A consistent record of using data to drive product teams to achieve ambitious goals and influencing company-level outcomes.
• Experience in schema design, data modeling, and building data pipelines.
• Experience with designing and testing experiments.
• 8+ years of professional industry experience doing quantitative analysis.
• Expert SQL and at least one general programming language (e.g. Python).
• Experience with a broad set of statistical and machine learning methods to build descriptive and predictive models.
• Experience with data technologies that allow effective storage and analysis of large amounts of data (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hive, Hadoop, etc).

Preferred Skills

• Experience with online data systems (e.g. relational databases, logging ingestion)
• Advanced degree (MS, PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Economics, Physics) a plus

Benefits & Perks

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For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $188,200 to $258,700.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $188,200 to $258,700.

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