Lead Data Scientist, Production ML & Growth

Grindr; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision

Fertility & family-building support

401(k) with match

Equity for all employees

Gender-affirming care

Flexible vacation

Job summary

Grindr in Palo Alto seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead data-driven decisions and build ML models that power product growth. You will transform raw data into insights, design experiments, and present findings to cross-functional teams.

You will mentor colleagues, implement scalable analytics, and contribute to an AI-native strategy across Grindr’s platforms. Hybrid role with in-person days in Palo Alto.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a quantitative field and 2+ years experience in data science.
• Experience analyzing, manipulating, and processing large data sets withPython and SQL.
• Experience building scalable automated data analysis workflows and ML models.

Responsibilities

• Develop techniques to transform raw data into actionable information using data-oriented programming.
• Design experiments to measure impact of product changes and analyze metrics.
• Test, validate, and refine ML models for accurate predictions.
• Communicate results to stakeholders and build scalable analysis tools.
• Deliver presentations of modeling results to management and users.
• Mentor team members and promote best practices in modeling.

Skills

Python

SQL

A/B testing

Statistical thinking

Education

Master’s degree in Operations Research and Information Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Pandas

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Tableau

Snowflake

Statsig

Job description

Grindr in Palo Alto seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead data-driven decisions and build ML models that power product growth. You will transform raw data into insights, design experiments, and present findings to cross-functional teams.

You will mentor colleagues, implement scalable analytics, and contribute to an AI-native strategy across Grindr’s platforms. Hybrid role with in-person days in Palo Alto.