Senior Data Scientist — ML & Product Analytics Leader

Cacheflow; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive data-driven decisions in a fast-growing environment. You will shape data science priorities, partner with engineering and product teams, and mentor junior scientists to deliver impactful analytics and models.

You will work across segmentation, forecasting, and analytics while collaborating with Sales, Marketing, and Finance to align data products with business goals.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data science experience in high velocity, high-growth companies.
• End-to-end development and deployment of data-driven products.
• Familiarity with product data science metrics like adoption, churn, cohorts, segmentation.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders from product, sales, engineering, marketing and finance.
• Strong coding skills in Scala or Python; familiarity with testing, reviews and deployment.
• Proficient in data analysis and visualization using R and Python.
• Experience with Spark and SQL.
• MS or Ph.D. in quantitative fields (Statistics, Math, CS, Physics, Economics or Engineering).

Responsibilities

• Shape the direction of key data science areas such as segmentation, recommendations, forecasting, product analytics and insights.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Sales and Customer Success to understand usage patterns and forecast trends.
• Manage stakeholders by gathering requirements, defining OKRs and milestones, and communicating progress clearly.
• Mentor junior data scientists on planning, technical decisions and code/document reviews.
• Represent data science across the organization to drive a data-driven culture.
• Build self-serve internal data products to simplify data access.
• Represent Databricks at conferences and events.

Skills

Data science

Python/Scala

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

MS/PhD in quantitative fields

Tools

Spark

SQL

R

Python

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive data-driven decisions in a fast-growing environment. You will shape data science priorities, partner with engineering and product teams, and mentor junior scientists to deliver impactful analytics and models.

You will work across segmentation, forecasting, and analytics while collaborating with Sales, Marketing, and Finance to align data products with business goals.