Senior Data Scientist - Resident Experience Analytics & AI

AppFolio, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead product analytics and experimentation for the Resident experience business. You will partner with product, engineering, design, and other data scientists to optimize the renter journey and elevate protections through FolioGuard renters' insurance, rewards programs, and resident benefits.

The role emphasizes building scalable data assets, standard metric layers, and robust AI-enabled analytics in a fast-growing PropTech environment, with a focus

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data team experience specializing in product analytics, user behavioral data, and statistical analysis.
• Advanced SQL and Python and/or R with querying relational databases and Snowflake.
• Proven track record designing, analyzing, and scaling A/B testing and causal inference.
• Hands-on use of AI coding agents and agentic workflows to accelerate analyses and automate data workflows with auditing.
• Strong executive communication and data storytelling to distill insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the resident journey with funnels for enrollment and purchases.
• Scale experimentation with standard causal inference and A/B testing.
• Drive retention and engagement with segmentation models.
• Integrate AI developer workflows and ensure auditing/QA.
• Build reusable data assets and single sources of truth.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python or R

A/B testing / causal inference

AI coding agents workflows

Executive communication

Tools

dbt

Hex

Streamlit

Quarto

Snowflake

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead product analytics and experimentation for the Resident experience business. You will partner with product, engineering, design, and other data scientists to optimize the renter journey and elevate protections through FolioGuard renters' insurance, rewards programs, and resident benefits.

The role emphasizes building scalable data assets, standard metric layers, and robust AI-enabled analytics in a fast-growing PropTech environment, with a focus