Data Scientist — Growth & Insights (Hybrid NYC)

Lightning AI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Equity

401k matching

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Professional development

Wellness stipend

Sabbatical

Flexible work

Office meals

Job summary

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, seeks a Data Scientist in New York for a data-driven strategy role. You’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Sales to surface trends, build data products, and inform decisions. This is a hybrid role with 2 in-office days per week.

You’ll join the Product Team and report to the VP of Product, contributing to a scalable neocloud platform for AI training and production insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Data Science or Product Analyst role.
• Proficient using SQL to query large databases.
• Strong skills using Python to write scripts and run statistical analysis.
• Hands-on experience with BI tools (Looker or similar) and cloud data infrastructure — AWS and/or GCP.
• Bias for action and ability to make clear decisions amid uncertainty.
• Experience on a growing data team at a startup is preferred.
• Experience designing and building foundational data models from scratch is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Sales, and Engineering to define questions that matter and identify product features and behaviors that drive business outcomes.
• Analyze small business and enterprise usage patterns to sharpen ICPs and guide Sales priorities.
• Quantify the health of the data center business and test improvements in sales, service, and operations.
• Work with engineering to design, build, and maintain data pipelines for timely analyses.
• Write SQL (and occasional scripts) to explore data and automate workflows.
• Design Looker and Data Studio dashboards and reports for stakeholders.
• Monitor trends and surface opportunities or risks early.
• Help grow a data-driven culture by enabling teams to use analytics tools.

Skills

SQL

Python

Tools

Looker

AWS

GCP

Job description

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, seeks a Data Scientist in New York for a data-driven strategy role. You’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Sales to surface trends, build data products, and inform decisions. This is a hybrid role with 2 in-office days per week.

You’ll join the Product Team and report to the VP of Product, contributing to a scalable neocloud platform for AI training and production insights.