Founding Data Scientist (GTM)

Greylock Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead analytics for sales, marketing, and customer success. The role involves finding insights in data, running experiments, and creating models to enhance customer engagement. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience, strong SQL skills, and a proven ability to communicate data insights effectively. This is a full-time position based in San Francisco, offering the chance to work with a startup in an innovative field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years related industry experience working with data and supporting business teams.
• Solid experience analyzing GTM or revenue-related data.
• Strong skills in SQL and modern analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to improve customer conversion and support.
• Create models that predict lead quality and customer value.
• Build dashboards and reports for leadership.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Snowflake

Hex

dbt

Independent work

Job description

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An early-stage investment of ours is looking to make their first IC hire in data science. This company builds tools that help teams understand how their AI systems perform and improve them over time (and they already have a lot of enterprise customers).

We're looking for a Sr Data Scientist to lead analytics for sales, marketing, and customer success. The job is about finding insights in data, running analyses and experiments, and helping the business make better decisions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to improve how the company finds, converts, and supports customers
• Create models that predict lead quality, conversion, and customer value
• Build clear dashboards and reports for leadership
• Work with teams across the company to answer key questions
• Take initiative, communicate clearly, and dig into data to solve problems
• Try new methods and tools to keep improving the company’s GTM approach

Qualifications

• 5+ years related industry experience working with data and supporting business teams.
• Solid experience analyzing GTM or revenue-related data
• Strong skills in SQL and modern analytics tools (Snowflake, Hex, dbt etc.)
• Comfortable owning data workflows—from cleaning and modeling to presenting insights.
• Able to work independently, prioritize well, and move projects forward without much direction.
• Clear thinker and communicator who can turn data into actionable recommendations.
• Adaptable and willing to learn new methods in a fast-paced environment.

About Us

Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable companies including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, Palo Alto Networks, among others. More can be found about us here: https://greylock.com/

How We Work

We are full-time, salaried employees of Greylock and provide free candidate referrals/introductions to our active investments. We will contact anyone who looks like a potential match—requesting to schedule a call with you immediately.

Due to the selective nature of this service and the volume of applicants we typically receive from our job postings, a follow-up email will not be sent until a match is identified with one of our investments.

Please note: We are not recruiting for any roles within Greylock at this time. This job posting is for direct employment with a startup in our portfolio.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Information Technology and Engineering

Industries: Technology, Information and Internet, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting