Senior Data Scientist - Marketing

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity packages

Health, dental, vision insurance, and

An Oura Ring of your own plus employee

20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid

Paid sick leave and parental leave

Job summary

Oura is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to partner with Marketing, Finance, Retail, and Product to translate data into decisions and outcomes. This role focuses on marketing efficiency, spend optimization, and scalable decision systems that guide budget and channel strategy.

The position requires building production-ready data models, experimentation, and AI-enabled workflows that inform leadership and drive growth across the go-to-market organization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop models and optimization approaches that improve upper-funnel marketing performance, such as spend allocation, channel mix optimization, budget pacing, media efficiency measurement, audience strategy, and forecasted revenue impact.
• Design and operationalize decision systems that help the business move from static reporting to repeatable, data-informed action, including recommendation engines, scenario planning tools, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Lead experimentation and causal measurement across upper-funnel marketing programs, helping teams distinguish signal from noise and make better investment decisions across channels, campaigns, and retail partnerships.
• Build and maintain trusted data foundations that unify marketing, revenue, retail, and product data across channels and systems to establish performance measurement metrics.
• Build dashboards, reporting layers, and recurring analytical products that give leaders clear visibility into awareness and acquisition funnel health, campaign efficiency, retail performance, and revenue contribution.
• Partner with Marketing and other stakeholders to define the highest-leverage growth and efficiency problems, translate ambiguous business questions into analytical frameworks, and drive marketing spend decisions through rigorous data science.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and business partners to improve data quality, instrumentation, metric definitions, and pipeline reliability across the marketing data ecosystem.
• Apply AI/ML methods where they create practical leverage, including predictive modeling, optimization, and LLM-enabled workflows that improve decision speed, quality, or scale.
• Translate complex analytical work into clear recommendations for non-technical and executive stakeholders, influencing roadmap, budget, and growth strategy decisions.
• Help raise the technical bar for the team through strong project ownership, documentation, peer review, mentoring, and thoughtful cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

SQL (dbt)

Python

Data science

Experimentation

Forecasting

Optimization

ML workflows

LLM-enabled workflows

Data engineering intuition

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Databricks

AWS

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to partner closely with Marketing, Finance, Retail, and Product to translate marketing data into better decisions and business outcomes. Your work will help Oura improve marketing efficiency, optimize spend allocation, strengthen channel and revenue measurement foundations, and build scalable decision systems that make our go-to-market organization smarter over time.

This is a full-stack applied data science role that requires strong data foundations, pragmatic model development, and the ability to turn technical models into operational and strategic action. We are especially excited about candidates who have experience going beyond standalone modeling to build AI-enabled decision systems that influence how teams prioritize, allocate budget, and take action.

What You Will Do

• Develop models and optimization approaches that improve upper-funnel marketing performance, such as spend allocation, channel mix optimization, budget pacing, media efficiency measurement, audience strategy, and forecasted revenue impact.
• Design and operationalize decision systems that help the business move from static reporting to repeatable, data-informed action, including recommendation engines, scenario planning tools, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Lead experimentation and causal measurement across upper-funnel marketing programs, helping teams distinguish signal from noise and make better investment decisions across channels, campaigns, and retail partnerships.
• Build and maintain trusted data foundations that unify marketing, revenue, retail, and product data across channels and systems to establish performance measurement metrics.
• Build dashboards, reporting layers, and recurring analytical products that give leaders clear visibility into awareness and acquisition funnel health, campaign efficiency, retail performance, and revenue contribution.
• Partner with Marketing and other stakeholders to define the highest-leverage growth and efficiency problems, translate ambiguous business questions into analytical frameworks, and drive marketing spend decisions through rigorous data science.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and business partners to improve data quality, instrumentation, metric definitions, and pipeline reliability across the marketing data ecosystem.
• Apply AI/ML methods where they create practical leverage, including predictive modeling, optimization, and LLM-enabled workflows that improve decision speed, quality, or scale.
• Translate complex analytical work into clear recommendations for non-technical and executive stakeholders, influencing roadmap, budget, and growth strategy decisions.
• Help raise the technical bar for the team through strong project ownership, documentation, peer review, mentoring, and thoughtful cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

We would love to have you on our team if you have:

• 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics, with a track record of owning high-impact business problems end to end.
• Strong domain experience supporting Marketing, Growth, Retail, or other go-to-market functions in a consumer, e-commerce, retail, or digital business.
• Hands-on experience building marketing data science solutions such as spend optimization models, channel or campaign measurement frameworks, media mix or incrementality approaches, propensity models, budget planning systems, or upper-funnel decisioning systems.
• Demonstrated experience building not just models, but decision systems that operationalize analytical outputs into business workflows and recurring decisions.
• Proven experience of data engineering intuition, including experience unifying and transforming data across multiple systems to create reliable, scalable datasets for downstream analysis, experimentation, and modeling.
• Experience with experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, and optimization methods used to support business planning and growth investment decisions.
• Strong proficiency in SQL (dbt) and Python, with experience building analytical data models, machine learning workflows, and production-quality measurement systems.
• Experience applying AI techniques in practical business settings, ideally including LLM-enabled workflows, recommendation systems, decision support tools, or other AI-native products that augment human decision-making.
• Experience working with modern cloud and data platforms such as Databricks, AWS, dbt, Snowflake, or similar tools.
• Proven ability to communicate complex analytical concepts clearly to non-technical partners and to translate model outputs into recommendations the business can act on.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with cross-functional and distributed teams in fast-moving environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience in e-commerce, DTC, retail, or omnichannel growth environments.
• Experience with marketing mix modeling, incrementality testing, attribution, or budget planning workflows.
• Experience connecting marketing, retail, and commercial performance data to downstream revenue outcomes.
• Experience in digital health, consumer technology, or wearable products.
• Experience mentoring other data scientists and helping shape cross-functional analytical roadmaps.

Benefits

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave and parental leave

Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Region 1 $172,550 - $203,000
• Region 2 $158,950 - $187,000
• Region 3 $147,900 - $174,000

A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your U.S. location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.