Senior Data Scientist, Growth Analytics & Product Strategy

Game Devs of Color Expo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Medal is seeking a data-driven analytics lead to own how we learn about users, from instrumentation to KPI reporting. You will influence product decisions and business strategy with end-to-end experiments and advanced statistics.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering, design flexible dashboards, and publish data-informed insights that shape pricing, retention, and growth initiatives.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience managing and researching product analytics or a master’s degree in statistics.
• Applied statistics depth: regression, experimental design, and causal inference. Bayesian methods are a plus.
• Comfortable coordinating with engineers on release cycles in CI/CD.
• Experience with event-level data and data warehouse tooling such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Airflow.
• Fluent in product analytics platforms like Amplitude or BI tools like Tableau.
• Strong SQL, Python, or R for analysis code.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
• Strong ability to manage your own roadmap.
• Bonus: An ability to conduct qualitative UX research.

Responsibilities

• Design and analyze experiments end-to-end: determine hypothesis, sample size, guardrails and readouts.
• Configure test structures and manage multi-test pipelines; perform causal analysis when clean tests aren’t possible.
• Define analytics instrumentation strategy and ensure telemetry and data scaffolding.
• Hunt for opportunities in data to inform strategy.
• Communicate findings with confidence intervals and effect sizes.
• Participate in team planning and roadmapping with your insights.
• Inform pricing research, including willingness to pay, conjoint and price elasticity.
• Contribute to industry and brand thought leadership through data-driven reports.
• Support cross-functional analytics impacting business decisions and product strategy.

Skills

Product analytics

Experiment design

Causal inference

SQL

Python

R

Communication

Roadmap management

AI tools

Qualitative UX research

Education

Master’s degree in statistics or related field

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Airflow

Amplitude

Tableau

Job description

Medal is seeking a data-driven analytics lead to own how we learn about users, from instrumentation to KPI reporting. You will influence product decisions and business strategy with end-to-end experiments and advanced statistics.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering, design flexible dashboards, and publish data-informed insights that shape pricing, retention, and growth initiatives.