Senior Data Scientist & Analytics Architect

Hidden Jams; Athens (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hidden Jams is seeking a Senior Data Scientist & Analytics Engineer to own the data insights pipeline and analytical framework for a fast-growing digital platform. You will design data models, ensure upstream pipeline integrity, run predictive simulations, and optimize discovery algorithms to drive platform performance.

You will bridge product infrastructure and business insights, building clean, reproducible, and scalable data pipelines while collaborating with Engineering and Product teams on

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytical engineering, data science, or pipeline-heavy analytics.
• Experience in a high-growth B2C digital platform, streaming service, or digital marketplace is a plus.
• Deep experience designing, testing, and maintaining analytics pipelines.
• Strong opinions on data warehousing architecture, schema-on-write vs. schema-on-read, and data quality.
• Advanced, production-grade SQL and modern transformation frameworks (dbt).
• Proficiency in Python or R for modeling, simulations, and data engineering tasks.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven telemetry frameworks.
• Desirable domain knowledge in digital media services or content discovery.
• Ability to translate data issues into strategic business insights.

Responsibilities

• Own analytical data layers and transformation pipelines (e.g., dbt) for product telemetry.
• Validate, iterate, and optimize ranking and recommendation systems with Eng and Product.
• Build predictive simulations and cohort analyses to understand platform usage.
• Advise on asset catalog metadata to support discovery and search performance.
• Ingest and normalize marketing, ad platform, and web attribution data.
• Map top-of-funnel data to on-platform behavioral data for LTV and CAC.
• Establish scalable BI infrastructure serving as the single source of truth.
• Standardize clickstream and session tracking with clean event schemas.

Skills

Advanced SQL

dbt

Python or R

Event‑driven telemetry

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Data warehousing architecture

Communication

Tools

dbt

Job description

Hidden Jams is seeking a Senior Data Scientist & Analytics Engineer to own the data insights pipeline and analytical framework for a fast-growing digital platform. You will design data models, ensure upstream pipeline integrity, run predictive simulations, and optimize discovery algorithms to drive platform performance.

You will bridge product infrastructure and business insights, building clean, reproducible, and scalable data pipelines while collaborating with Engineering and Product teams on