Remote Retail Analytics & Decision Scientist

Fractal; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fractal Analytics is hiring a Decision Scientist to join its Data Science organization in the Bay Area or New York, with remote work options. The role blends hands-on analytics with business understanding to frame questions, analyze performance, test hypotheses, and translate findings into actionable recommendations across physical retail, e-commerce, and omnichannel experiences for wearable products.

Key responsibilities include framing problems, analyzing retail performance, generating

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Experience with statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, forecasting, experimentation, and causal analysis.
• Ability to structure ambiguous business questions into measurable analytical problems.

Responsibilities

• Frame business problems: Translate sales, marketing, and retail questions into clear analytical problems, hypotheses, metrics, and measurement approaches.
• Analyze retail performance: Evaluate sales, conversion, customer, product, store, inventory, and channel performance to identify trends, drivers, and improvement opportunities.
• Generate actionable insights: Use quantitative analysis to understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what actions could improve outcomes.
• Evaluate business opportunities: Assess growth levers such as pricing, promotions, customer targeting, channel performance, product mix, and retail execution.
• Support experimentation: Help design and analyze A/B tests, pilots, and other test-and-learn initiatives to measure the incremental impact of business interventions.
• Develop forecasts and scenarios: Build analytical models to evaluate potential outcomes and support decisions related to sales, demand, promotions, and retail performance.
• Build decision-support solutions: Develop dashboards, analytical tools, and lightweight decision models that enable business teams to monitor performance and make informed decisions.
• Communicate recommendations: Convert analytical findings into clear business narratives, recommendations, and visualizations for business and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Automate analytics: Use Python, SQL, AI tools, and automation to improve recurring analyses, reporting, and analytical workflows.
• Measure impact: Define appropriate KPIs and measurement frameworks to track whether implemented recommendations deliver the intended business outcomes.

Skills

Quantitative problem solving

Statistical analysis

Hypothesis testing

Forecasting

Experimentation

Causal analysis

Ambiguity framing

SQL

Python

Relational databases

AI tools

Data visualization

Tools

SQL

Python

Relational databases

AI tools

BI tools

Job description

Fractal Analytics is hiring a Decision Scientist to join its Data Science organization in the Bay Area or New York, with remote work options. The role blends hands-on analytics with business understanding to frame questions, analyze performance, test hypotheses, and translate findings into actionable recommendations across physical retail, e-commerce, and omnichannel experiences for wearable products.

Key responsibilities include framing problems, analyzing retail performance, generating