Senior Data Scientist: Causal Inference & Experimentation

Hitmarker | Gaming Jobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 245,000; Full time

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Job summary

Discord is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for its Experimentation Platform to ensure sound statistical underpinnings of experiments and to collaborate with engineering and product teams. You will empower Discord’s Data Science group (50+ members) to adopt rigorous causal inference methods and lead educational initiatives across the organization.

You will design, validate, and improve methodologies for hundreds of daily experiments affecting Discord’s strategy and 90M daily active users.

Qualifications

• MSc in a quantitative field and 2+ years designing and analyzing experiments.
• Ability to evaluate statistical approaches for experimentation.
• Strong communication to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve the reliability and scalability of experimentation.
• Provide statistical expertise to ensure sound methodologies and frameworks for causal inference and experimental design.
• Lead education initiatives to train cross-functional teams on best practices in experimentation design and causal inference.
• Develop workshops and training materials to demystify complex statistical concepts and promote data-driven decision-making.
• Empower the Data Science team to use rigorous causal inference methods and conduct independent causal inference research.

Skills

Python

SQL

R

Statistical analysis

Education

MSc in a quantitative field

Job description

Discord is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for its Experimentation Platform to ensure sound statistical underpinnings of experiments and to collaborate with engineering and product teams. You will empower Discord’s Data Science group (50+ members) to adopt rigorous causal inference methods and lead educational initiatives across the organization.

You will design, validate, and improve methodologies for hundreds of daily experiments affecting Discord’s strategy and 90M daily active users.