Senior Data Scientist I

Carta; New York, San Francisco (IA, CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Data Scientist, where your analytical skills will drive data-driven decisions and product innovations. In this role, you'll standardize metrics, generate insights from historical data, and collaborate with diverse teams to enhance our analytics toolkit. With a focus on empowering others to make informed decisions, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our data-driven culture. This innovative firm offers a competitive salary and exceptional benefits, creating an exciting opportunity for those passionate about leveraging data for growth.

Benefits

Equity for all full-time roles

Exceptional benefits

Market competitive salary

Qualifications

• 5+ years of analytics experience in product analytics or data science.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Standardize and document core metrics across teams.
• Generate insights into product features and user behavior.

Skills

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

SQL

Python

dbt

Snowflake

Looker

Metabase

Git

Job description

The Company You’ll Join

Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.

Carta’s world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.

Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.

Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll work to:

1. Standardize, document and generate core metrics for our business and our product across multiple teams
2. Instrument new initiatives and come up with metrics to measure them alongside business partners and/or product managers
3. Generate insights into how new features can impact a product release
4. Use different analytical and statistical approaches to identify trends in historical data that help Carta better understand customer / user behavior
5. Present findings to diverse audiences, including executives
6. Re-evaluate existing data infrastructure and dashboards to make sure they are easy to understand and use
7. Provide training sessions to teach members of other teams to self-serve in BI tools
8. Collaborate with the rest of the data team to come up with new products based on data

By partnering with teams within Carta and providing data solutions, you will elevate our decision making and improve our products, operations and business direction. As you continue to build out our analytics toolkit, you will empower others in the organization to make data driven decisions.

The Team You’ll Work With

On the Data Science team, our mission is to enable data-driven decisions and products across Carta by collecting accurate data, building scalable infrastructure and delivering advanced analytics. We believe in building a strong data foundation to ensure data quality and to promote self-service across the company. In addition, the data team works on developing proprietary data products using Carta’s rich and unique dataset. We like to partner with each other and with Cartans across the company to get our work done. We constantly think about how we can improve and grow.

About You

Successful candidates in this role are excellent communicators who are always looking for opportunities to use data to make decisions. You have at least 5+ years of analytics experience either in product analytics or data science. You are a self-starter who can build relationships across the company, understand how to prioritize your work, choose which methods or technologies will best solve a problem, and understand when data can and should be used to improve Carta. You have excellent attention to detail, are able to communicate with diverse stakeholders, comfortable presenting to all audiences, and don’t mind writing documentation.

Preferred Tech Stack (experience working with the following tools):

• SQL
• Python
• dbt
• Snowflake
• Looker / Metabase
• Git

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:

$170,000 - $200,000 in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
$161,500 - $190,000 in Seattle, WA

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the talent partner via email.

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