Data Scientist - Product

ZipRecruiter; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing startup, Perplexity, seeks a data scientist to join its expanding team. In this pivotal role, you will influence product direction, drive insights from data, and contribute to shaping the future of search technology. This opportunity promises significant growth as part of a thriving company backed by major tech investors.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Equity options

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in data science or related role.
• Experience in consumer growth companies.
• Extensive A/B testing and dashboard experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop insights from user behavior for product roadmaps.
• Design and analyze A/B tests.
• Create metrics and dashboards for tracking.

Skills

SQL

A/B testing

Data modeling

Python

Dashboard building

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

BI tools (Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker)

Job description

Job Description

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.

We are hiring for a data scientist to work on our core consumer product. As an early member of the Data Science team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our product and company. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help define the data science function. You will have the chance to contribute to our mission to be the world's most knowledge-centric company by reshaping the future of search and technology.

Responsibilities

1. Develop data-driven insights from user behavior to inform our product roadmap and accelerate adoption
2. Come up with hypotheses and validate them by designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests
3. Figure out the right metrics and visualizations to track and implement them in dashboards, from features to company-wide
4. Work closely with other functions, such as engineering, product, growth, design, and user research
5. Build tables to make analysis more efficient and make data more accessible

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience working as a data scientist or related role
• Have worked at a fast-growing company working on consumer and/or growth
• SQL expert
• Extensive A/B testing experience
• Extensive experience building dashboards using BI tools (ex: Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker or similar tools)
• Self-starter and take ownership of your work end-to-end
• Comfortable with open-ended problems
• Some experience with data modeling

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with dbt
• Comfortable with Python
• Experience with Snowflake (especially as an admin)
• Experience as one of the first data scientists at an early/growth stage company
• Data engineering and/or analytics engineering experience
• ML experience

The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $270,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above. Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package. Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.