Data Scientist III

Russell Tobin; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 96,432 - 108,830; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) retirement savings

Life & disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Legal support

Auto, home, and pet insurance

Employee discounts with vendors

Job summary

Russell Tobin is seeking a Data Scientist for a Mountain View, CA-based FinTech client on a hybrid, contract basis for 12+ months. The role emphasizes building data-driven product insights, A/B testing, and scalable analytics pipelines to enhance referral program performance.

You will collaborate with Product, Marketing, Design, and Engineering to implement causal analyses and robust KPI reporting while advancing AI-assisted workflows and forecasting capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with SQL, analytics, and data science methodologies.
• Hands-on expertise with A/B testing, causal inference, and time series forecasting.
• Industry experience within FinTech.
• Experience with AI-assisted workflows or a willingness to learn and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to define, measure, and optimize key funnel metrics to improve end-to-end product performance for the Referral Program.
• Design, execute, and analyze A/B tests, including instrumentation, experiment design, statistical significance testing, and reporting.
• Automate KPI reporting, develop dashboards, and build scalable reporting pipelines to improve business visibility and reduce manual effort.
• Perform ad hoc causal and directional analyses to support product decisions and identify optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Marketing, Product Design, and Engineering teams to develop data-driven product insights and self-service testing capabilities.

Skills

SQL

Analytics

Data science methodologies

A/B testing

Causal inference

Time series forecasting

FinTech experience

AI-assisted workflows

Job description

Our client, a financial technology company, is looking to hire a Data Scientist in Mountain View, CA.

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

Duration: Contract - 12+ months

Pay Rate Range: $70 - $79 per hour (DOE)

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to define, measure, and optimize key funnel metrics to improve end-to-end product performance for the Referral Program.
• Design, execute, and analyze A/B tests, including instrumentation, experiment design, statistical significance testing, and reporting.
• Automate KPI reporting, develop dashboards, and build scalable reporting pipelines to improve business visibility and reduce manual effort.
• Perform ad hoc causal and directional analyses to support product decisions and identify optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Marketing, Product Design, and Engineering teams to develop data-driven product insights and self-service testing capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong experience with SQL, analytics, and data science methodologies.
• Hands-on expertise with A/B testing, causal inference, and time series forecasting.
• Industry experience within Financial Technology (FinTech).
• Experience with AI-assisted workflows or a willingness to learn, along with a proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment

Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates:

Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.