Lead Data Scientist, Ads Monetization & Strategy

Mozilla; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plans

Medical,dental, vision coverage

Retirement contributions

Annual professional development budget

Parental leave

Home office stipend

Job summary

Mozilla Corporation seeks a Staff Data Scientist for its Ads team to partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Finance. You will identify high-impact opportunities, own end-to-end analyses, and help executives make data-driven decisions in a fast-moving environment.

You’ll develop measurement frameworks for new ad products, analyze revenue drivers, and translate complex findings into clear recommendations for technical partners and senior leaders, ensuring privacy-conscious, business-minded

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or applied quantitative roles.
• Experience with digital advertising or related monetization business.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with statistical, experimental, forecasting, and analytical methods.
• Ability to independently frame ambiguous problems, identify what matters, and drive work from an open-ended question through a clear recommendation.
• Excellent analytical judgment—balancing rigor with pragmatism, pressure-testing important results, and communicating uncertainty appropriately.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and communicate complex findings to audiences from technical partners to senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science partner for Mozilla Ads across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and senior leadership.
• Own analytical problems end-to-end, from framing the business question to communicating recommendations and driving follow-through.
• Develop measurement frameworks for new and evolving advertising products, including success metrics, experimentation, instrumentation, and reporting.
• Analyze advertising revenue and performance to identify key drivers, evaluate opportunities and trade-offs, and inform product and business decisions.
• Translate complex findings, assumptions, and uncertainty into clear recommendations for audiences ranging from technical partners to senior executives.

Skills

Data science leadership

Digital advertising

Python

SQL

Statistical methods

Communication with executives

Problem framing

Job description

Mozilla Corporation seeks a Staff Data Scientist for its Ads team to partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Finance. You will identify high-impact opportunities, own end-to-end analyses, and help executives make data-driven decisions in a fast-moving environment.

You’ll develop measurement frameworks for new ad products, analyze revenue drivers, and translate complex findings into clear recommendations for technical partners and senior leaders, ensuring privacy-conscious, business-minded