Data Scientist Intern ('24)

Tinder; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 48,870 - 69,603; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly pay

Comprehensive health coverage

Flexible working schedule

Access to mental health resources

MentorMatch program

Customized computer equipment

Job summary

Tinder is seeking a Data Scientist Intern for Summer 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. The role involves analytics, A/B testing, data queries, and visualization to guide business decisions. This position is hybrid, requiring in-office collaboration three days a week.

Interns will work in a dynamic environment, engage with the Analytics team, and gain insights from data-driven projects. Candidates should be pursuing a degree and have strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills. Enjoy competitive pay and a supportive, inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be entering the final year of their degree program.
• Must be creative and tenacious problem solvers.
• Proficient in descriptive and inferential statistics and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the design and evaluation of A/B tests for new product features.
• Query and analyze in-app user behavior to enhance product understanding.
• Create visualizations that leverage Tinder’s dataset.

Skills

SQL

Data visualization tools

Descriptive statistics

Inferential statistics

A/B testing

Machine Learning (ML)

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD degree program

Job description

The Role:

The Team

There are internships and then there's the Tindership program. Forget boring busywork—spend your summer as part of our team, making a real impact on our business. Tinder interns gain a meaningful experience connecting with their mentor and managers, participating in large-scale projects, and collaborating with other interns in our flagship Tindership hackathon. You’ll join an inclusive workplace and gain real-world experiences and exposure to Tinder's culture.

The Analytics team powers data-informed decision-making at Tinder. We are looking to add a hardworking, creative Data Scientist Intern for Summer 2024. As a Data Scientist Intern on Analytics, you will use our comprehensive dataset to develop experiments, forecasting models, automated reports, and various exploratory insights to guide our business decisions.

An effective Data Scientist at Tinder must have a passion and aptitude for turning sophisticated problems into concrete hypotheses that can be answered through thorough data analysis and A/B testing. They must also be able to disseminate their takeaways and recommendations to a variety of partners within our organization via presentations, reports, and dashboards. In this role, your insights will influence both the performance of our business and the experience of our users.

Where you'll work

This is a hybrid role and requires in-office collaboration three days per week. The position will be located in Los Angeles, CA.

What you'll do:

• Assisting with the design and evaluation of A/B tests for new product features
• Querying and analyzing in-app user behavior to help shape the organization's understanding of our existing product
• Creating new types of visualizations that expand the power of Tinder’s vast dataset
• Building dashboards and rollup tables to facilitate/automate ongoing analytical tasks
• Exploring ways that Gen AI can amplify data science and analytics at Tinder
• Applying ML models to derive insights and a better understanding of our users

What we're looking for:

• Candidates entering the final year of a Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD degree program
• Creative, tenacious problem solvers who are passionate about our product and excited to work with our rich, complex dataset
• Ability to develop a nuanced business understanding, testable hypotheses, and meaningful findings from large datasets
• Eagerness to identify and explore new product/marketing opportunities, potential improvements to our data infrastructure, and unanswered questions about customer behavior
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and a willingness to collaborate with business partners in Product, Engineering, Design, Finance, and Marketing
• Comfort using descriptive and inferential statistics, SQL, and data visualization tools

As part of our team, you'll enjoy:

• The liveliness of a startup with the impact of a global business
• Collaborating with a team of creative, fun and driven colleagues
• Working with an extraordinary team of smart, creative, fun, and highly motivated people
• Competitive hourly pay and flexible working schedule
• Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k)
• Access to mental health resources
• Virtual yoga and fitness classes, and many other fun activities
• Virtual celebrations, parties, socials, and more
• A robust Learning + Development offering including our MentorMatch program, access to a library of 6,000+ online learning courses through Udemy
• Fully customized computer equipment to fit your needs
• The opportunity to join 8+ active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Salary Range:

$43 - $43 per hour

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.