Senior Data Scientist

Patreon; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Creator Economy is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to enhance the monetization strategies for creators. You will collaborate with various teams to build data-driven products, conduct research, and act as a technical leader in the role, asking insightful questions and delivering clear communication.

Benefits

Unlimited paid time off

Company holidays and recharge days

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

401k plan with matching

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• Wealth of experience helping product teams with data-driven decisions.
• Very strong statistical inference skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams to build product features.
• Conduct quantitative research to inform product strategy.
• Translate data into actionable insights for the company.

Skills

SQL

Statistical analysis

Analytical thinking

Experimentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Python

R

Job description

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Patreon is the best place for creators to build memberships by providing exclusive access to their work and a deeper connection with their communities. We’re building a content and community platform where creators can engage directly with their fans and monetize their creativity, while maintaining full ownership over the work they make and the communities they create.

We’re leaders in the membership space with 250,000+ active creators and over $3.5 billion paid directly to creators on our platform. Our team is building tools to optimize the creator-to-fan relationship, including native video, enhanced podcasting features, improved creation tools, and new community experiences. We’re continuing to invest heavily in building the most talented team in the Creator Economy and are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to support our mission.

This role is based in San Francisco or in New York and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.

About The Role

• You’ll work in lock step with your cross-functional team to build product features that help creators improve their membership monetization.
• You’ll conduct quantitative research to inform product strategy and opportunities, design metrics to help track goals and make decisions, devise learning methods (including experiments) to test hypotheses, and work closely with our machine learning and data engineering teams on building MVP user-facing data products.
• You'll translate data into actionable insights and communicate your technical work to the data team, your cross-functional partners, executive leadership, and the rest of the company.
• You’ll be a cultural and technical leader on the data science team.
  
  
  

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• You have a wealth of experience helping product teams make great decisions with data.
• You are an experimentation expert and possess a very strong statistical inference skillset.
• You have solid analytical thinking. You ask the right questions and strive to see beyond the numbers to understand what an analysis represents in terms of real-world applications.
• You have experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy.
• You are a SQL expert and have experience in Python or R to perform statistical analyses.
• You have a track record of building strong relationships with product, engineering, research, and design teammates.
• You have a growth mindset and aspire to continuously improve your soft and technical skills.
• You are an expert communicator with a love for clarity and simplicity.
• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
  
  
  

About Patreon

Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:

• Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win.
• Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
• Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver.
• Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.
  
  
  

We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. If you’re a creator at heart, are energized by our mission, and share our company values, we’d love to hear from you.

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accomodations@patreon.

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.

Patreon operates under a hybrid work model, where employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office two days per week, excluding sick time and paid leave. The goal of this policy is to be intentional about the in-person time we spend together to strengthen the feeling of community at Patreon. Candidates outside of our office hubs are not expected to meet the same requirements.

At Patreon, we believe in fair and transparent pay. In compliance with New York and California pay transparency laws, we are sharing the expected salary range for this role.

The posted salary range is dependent on the location and the level. This range may encompass multiple levels within the role’s job family. The final offer will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, competencies, and geographic location, aligning with the appropriate job level within Patreon’s leveling framework. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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