Data Scientist, Growth

Auth21; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Data Scientist to apply statistical inference and experimentation to understand product changes and drive decision-making.

You will partner with product, engineering, and marketing leaders at every step of development, building foundational datasets and dashboards to monitor progress and influence decisions. Strong SQL and Python/R skills are required; growth analytics experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and at least one scripting language (Python or R).
• Experience with statistical inference and experimentation.
• Ability to transform raw data into usable datasets.
• Bias for using the right tools to achieve accurate results.

Responsibilities

• Apply statistical inference and experimentation to understand the impact of product changes and drive decision-making.
• Explore ambiguous areas and identify opportunities for the Growth org, shaping strategy and roadmap.
• Partner with product, engineering, and marketing leaders to drive data science and analytics work.
• Determine north star metrics and build foundational datasets and dashboards to monitor progress.
• Influence the broader company by communicating findings and driving change in product and business.

Skills

SQL

Python or R

Statistical inference

Data wrangling

Job description

Location

San Francisco, California

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Data Science

Who We Are

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. We’re building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.

About The Role:

• You will apply your expertise in statistical inference and experimentation to understand the impact of product changes and drive decision-making.
• You will explore ambiguous areas and conduct analysis to identify opportunities for the Growth org, helping shape the strategy and roadmap.
• You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and marketing leaders at every step of the development process, driving forward data science and analytics work.
• You’ll work with your teams to determine north star and operational metrics, and build the foundational datasets and dashboards to monitor progress and make key decisions.
• You’ll influence the broader company by communicating your findings and driving change in our product and business. (Insights are useful. Impact is even better!)

Skills You’ll Need To Bring:

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and motivated by business results.
• You have expertise in SQL and at least one scripting language (ideally Python or R).
• You know how to use statistical inference and experimentation to drive actionable recommendations.
• You are comfortable transforming raw data to build your own data sets if the measure you need doesn’t exist yet.
• You have a bias for using the right tools to get a job done with maximum efficiency. You have experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy.

Nice To Haves:

• You have worked at a fast-growing start-up.
• You have experience at a B2B SaaS company.
• You have a track record of acting as a thought partner to product, engineering, and marketing leaders, driving strategic decisions on these teams using data.
• You have experience building predictive models, and you know how to evaluate their effectiveness.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $145,000 — $162,000 per year.

A Note on AI

You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we’ll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.