Senior Data Scientist - Product Analytics & AI Experiments

AppFolio, Inc.; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to drive product analytics and experimentation for the Resident experience. You will partner with product, engineering, design, and data scientists to solve challenging problems across FolioGuard renters' insurance, rewards programs, and resident benefits.

Your impact includes optimizing enrollment funnels, building causal inference frameworks, and advancing AI-powered analytics while ensuring data quality and governance across the company.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data team experience specializing in product analytics, user behavioral data, and statistical analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong programming skills in Python and/or R, with deep familiarity querying relational database structures and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred).
• Proven track record designing, analyzing, and scaling A/B testing and causal inference frameworks.
• Experience using AI coding agents and agentic developer workflows to accelerate analyses and automate data workflows, with auditing of AI-generated code.
• Strong executive communication and data storytelling skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the resident journey and enrollment/purchase funnels for insurance, rewards, and benefits.
• Scale experimentation with standard causal inference and A/B testing frameworks.
• Develop user behavioral segmentation models to improve retention and renewals.
• Integrate AI developer workflows and ensure rigorous QA and auditing of outputs.
• Build reusable data assets and metric layers serving as truth sources for adoption and financial metrics.
• Mentor teammates and raise data science standards across the organization.

Skills

Product analytics

A/B testing

Causal inference

SQL

Python

R

Data storytelling

AI workflows

Dashboards

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

dbt

Hex

Streamlit

Quarto

Snowflake

Job description

AppFolio is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to drive product analytics and experimentation for the Resident experience. You will partner with product, engineering, design, and data scientists to solve challenging problems across FolioGuard renters' insurance, rewards programs, and resident benefits.

Your impact includes optimizing enrollment funnels, building causal inference frameworks, and advancing AI-powered analytics while ensuring data quality and governance across the company.