Product Data Science Lead

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking Staff & Principal Product Data Scientists to help build a world-class data ecosystem that supports and scales data-driven product decision-making at Slack. As part of the team, you will partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape product development, measure success, and iterate.

You will design and develop Slack’s agentic data delivery platform, connecting data backend, metrics foundations, and insights analyses to enable true data self-serve capabilities in an

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product data science experience in related tech industries.
• Proven ability to drive product decisions with data.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language for data science (Python, R, or Scala).
• Experience with large-scale data technologies such as Spark, Presto, Hive, Hadoop, or similar distributed data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Establish strong partnerships with product stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize roadmaps, and implement execution excellence.
• Evangelize evidence-based decision-making by partnering with key leaders and driving accessibility of data and insights.
• Perform evidence-based evaluations of drivers for increased adoption of Slack product capabilities.
• Build key success metric frameworks and self-serve reporting to monitor Slack product health.
• Prototype foundational data models and partner with Data Engineering to elevate these into canonical sources of truth.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Slack's agentic data delivery platform.
• Quantitatively identify potential product opportunities to improve user experiences and unlock business value.
• Partner closely with Product Researchers to align roadmaps and collaborate on projects to answer complex questions.

Skills

Data science leadership

Data storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Education

BS in quantitative field

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Scala

Apache Airflow

Spark

Presto

Hive

Hadoop

Job description

Salesforce is seeking Staff & Principal Product Data Scientists to help build a world-class data ecosystem that supports and scales data-driven product decision-making at Slack. As part of the team, you will partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape product development, measure success, and iterate.

You will design and develop Slack’s agentic data delivery platform, connecting data backend, metrics foundations, and insights analyses to enable true data self-serve capabilities in an