Senior Data Scientist: Product Analytics & AI for Residents

AppFolio, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 138,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to drive product analytics and experimentation strategy for our Resident experience business in Washington, DC. You will partner with product, engineering, design, and other data scientists to solve challenging problems and elevate renter-focused offerings, including insurance and rewards programs.

Responsibilities include optimizing enrollment funnels, building causal/A/B frameworks, and developing scalable data assets.

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.
• Demonstrated hands-on use of AI coding agents and agentic developer workflows to accelerate analyses and automate data workflows, with auditing/validation practices.
• Strong executive communication and data storytelling skills, distilling complex statistics for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the resident journey: map, measure, and refine enrollment/purchase funnels for resident insurance, rewards, and benefits.
• Scale experimentation rigor: build standard causal inference and A/B testing frameworks for product hypotheses.
• Drive retention and engagement: develop user segmentation to improve renewal and benefit utilization.
• Accelerate analytical velocity with AI: integrate AI developer workflows with QA/auditing.
• Build reusable data assets: create standard metric layers as single sources of truth for adoption and financials.
• Multiply team capabilities: mentor colleagues and uplift data science standards through reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

A/B testing

Causal inference

Data storytelling

AI coding agents

Tools

dbt

Hex

Streamlit

Quarto

Snowflake

Job description

AppFolio is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to drive product analytics and experimentation strategy for our Resident experience business in Washington, DC. You will partner with product, engineering, design, and other data scientists to solve challenging problems and elevate renter-focused offerings, including insurance and rewards programs.

Responsibilities include optimizing enrollment funnels, building causal/A/B frameworks, and developing scalable data assets.